Eddy's Good News: WW1 Lidos are coming back and NBA star pushes for environmental change

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10 May 2023, 10:31

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Wednesday 10th May 2023

Great news from here in the UK as the post WW1 lidos are coming back! The UK’s open-air pools were planned and built for working-class communities in the 1930s, but WW2 started a tailspin from which they never really recovered. When people started going to France and Spain in the sixties, many of them fell into disrepair and closed down.

Now we find ourselves in a post Wim Hof cold water golden age, where the science of stimulating your biggest organ, the skin, with frigid water has shown to be hugely beneficial for both your immune system and your mental health, we’re seeing a resurgence of these lidos.

Waltham Forest in East London are building a new one, Old Kent Road in South London is getting one too, and the old art deco beauties are coming back: from Cleveland Pools in bath, to Sea Lanes on Brighton, Albert Avenue in Hull and the most gorgeous of them all, between mountain and sea at Tarlair in Aberdeenshire. Lot’s of these renovations have been driven by love of open water from residents. I can testify to its benefits, I’ve been doing it for nine years now and I’ve not had flu or any problems with depression in all that time. 

Via: positive.news

Encouraging news from the USA and a former NBA Basketball star who is the CEO and co-founder of Partanna, a start up that aims to change the way we build, with concrete that absorbs more CO2 than it creates.

Concrete’s disastrous relationship with the planet is now well documented and a sustainable alternative is the holy grail of building now, as we say hello to Rick Fox, the LA Lakers superstar.

His home in his native Bahamas was destroyed by a tropical storm, which are getting more intense because of CO2 fuelled climate change so Rick wants to do something that’ll help change the world for the better. Enter Partanna, which uses recycled materials instead of cement, which are cured at room temperature, avoiding a huge CO2 debt. Then it’s bound together with a natural binder which actually absorbs CO2 as it works. Bottom line is that a 1,250 square-foot home made with this stuff  absorbs 22.5 tons of CO2, rather than emitting 77 tons, which is what a house that large would otherwise do. Now multiply that by the amount of new builds using concrete breeze blocks or foundations and you have a game changing, planet saving paradigm shift.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org