Happy spring and happy holidays, for those of you who celebrate them. I’m in Pittsburgh now to spend Easter with my family. I’m excited for bunny cake on Sunday and for my grandma’s 86th birthday next Thursday! Here’s your recap of what went on here at The Sunny Way this week:

• Monday, I wrote about orienting ourselves with the messy but ultimately positive nature of evolution, and the responsibility that’s laid on our shoulders once we realize how this all works.
• Tuesday, we learned about Esther’s project to build bridges between Israeli and Palestinian women in our latest installment of 11 Questions. Esther says she has some exciting updates for us, which we’ll get to you very soon.
• Wednesday, Sarah wrote about understanding and changing our appetites as a means to change the world. We’re really hungry for progress, she says, not fossil fuels, and it’s important to decouple the two.
• Thursday, Stella wrote from the inside of the messy evolutionary process we discussed on Monday, sharing what she’s learned from making positive changes in her life and showing us how to sidestep perfectionism in our efforts to achieve progress.

Today’s video comes courtesy of TED and tells us how to use readily available household plants to radically improve our indoor air quality. Kamal Meattle’s experiments in his office park in New Dehli have resulted in dramatic reductions in sickness and huge improvements in productivity, all from adding about 1,200 plants to support the oxygen needs of 300 workers. Meattle says that with the right plants, you could live in a corked bottle with no harmful effects!

I love crazy, practical, useful information like this. My own apartment doesn’t get a lot of fresh air ventilation, so I’ll be looking for these plants when I get back home.