Causes We Support

We support the following causes:

Later School Start Times

Teenagers do not have the same biological clock as adults. A massive body of research is showing us that sleep-deprived teenagers are under-performing, reporting higher levels of depression, and suffering from countless negative health effects from early school start times. In counties where school start times are delayed, we consistently see improvements in academic, social and psychological markers. 

Sign a local petition to start school later.

Abolishing Daylight Savings Time

Daylight Savings is a holdout from World War I, when it was believed to help save on national fuel consumption. It faded after the Great War, but was reinstated during World War II for the same reason. While the war ended in 1945, it still throws off our biological clocks every year.

According to a study published in the BMJ (formerly British Medical Journal), Heart Attack incidences increase by up to 24% after the spring change. In Why We Sleep, Dr Matthew Walker proposes that this is linked to the lost hour of sleep. In the already-sleep deprived industrialized world, the lost hour of sleep puts hundreds of thousands of people at higher risk for a cardiac incident every year.

We support ending the archaic practice of daylight savings time, one that codifies the unhealthy mindset that de-prioritizes sleep.

Read more at the Business Insider: “Daylight Savings Time is Literally Killing Us“.