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13 minutes
[ Culture ]
The Life Changing Work of a Master Craftsman
Behind the doors of Blue Ox Millworks, Eric Hollenbeck passes down generations of knowledge, instilling a sense of pride and healing with his work. By sharing the love for his craft, this woodworker is helping high schoolers and veterans alike find their own healing.
7 minutes
[ Innovation ]
Make the World Better with Your Next Run to the Grocery Store!
By Sam Burns
How can you help save the world without actually having to change your life much? It’s easy! We’ll show you how.
8 minutes
[ Thought Leaders ]
Transforming Detroit One Beehive at a Time!
Could vacant lots actually hold the potential to make cities healthier? Take a look at how this couple is transforming Detroit’s many vacant lots into an oasis for urban beekeeping and enriching their community!
[ blog ]
The Conspiracy Chronicles: Deforestation, September 2019
What can we do to stop deforestation? Around the globe, deforestation is causing major problems, here’s how you can help keep our forests safe!
11 minutes
Principal Wayman’s Recipe for Changing Schools and Lives
By Dr. Lynda
Want to get the best out of every unique child? Build a system of support that includes at least one caring adult in every child’s life. Here is one of the most powerful TED Talks you will ever have the pleasure of watching!
10 minutes
[ Innovation ]
These Computers Let Us Travel Through Time to Grow Radically Healthier Food!
By Sam Burns
Food computers are making it possible for us to create environments to grow our best, most nutritious food! This brilliant innovation allows us all to have a hand in feeding a healthy—and growing—world. Here’s the exciting story…
10 minutes
[ Innovation ]
What if We Turned Plastic Waste into a Valuable Currency?
The Plastic Bank is turning plastic into money for people around the globe. This idea has the power to end poverty while saving our oceans!
9 minutes
[ Nature ]
Conservation Success! How Out of the Box Thinking Saved an Adorable Fox
Now here’s something to celebrate! A novel model for bringing back a thriving population of an endangered species on our planet! The secret? Take a look at how a new way of thinking saved an adorable species of fox!
21 minutes
[ Thought Leaders ]
How Playing Broken Instruments Brought Them Back to Life!
By Sam Burns
What do you do with a gymnasium full of broken instruments? Play them! Check out how this symphony of broken instruments repaired a community.
[ blog ]
The Conspiracy Chronicles: Saving Dark Skies, August 2019
What do we lose when we lose a stary night sky? Dark skies are disappearing around the world, here’s what you can do to improve your health and the planet!
15 minutes
[ Thought Leaders ]
Skate After School: How Skateboarding Can Change a Kid’s Life!
By Sam Burns
What if you could learn life’s most important skills and have fun while doing so? This program is making that possible for hundreds of kids every week. Let’s hear from the kids themselves why this program is so important!
30 minutes
The Remarkable Organization Saving Kenya’s Orphaned Elephants
Meet the remarkable people behind one of their most successful (and adorable) programs protecting the world’s remaining wildlife, the Elephant Orphanage. For over 40 years the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust has been transforming and inspiring hearts and minds!
20 minutes
SeaLegacy: Celebrating Our Oceans and Saving Our Future
By Dr. Lynda
If we were waiting for just the right organization to lead us all to a better future, they may have arrived! Here’s how we bring people together to celebrate and save some of the planet’s most precious resources. Take a look!
22 minutes
[ Thought Leaders ]
What if We Celebrated What’s Right with the World?
By Dr. Lynda
As a National Geographic photographer, Dewitt Jones learned a lot about reframing the way he looks at the world. Here are the remarkable insights he has on what we can do to find what’s right with the world and start to see beauty more often.
[ blog ]
The Conspiracy Chronicles: Native Bees, July 2019
What can we do to save the world’s native bees? Native bees are an important part of our food systems and many ecosystems. Here’s what you can do to help!
5 minutes
[ Thought Leaders ]
Why Would One Man Fill 600 Potholes?
By Sam Burns
Now here’s an inspiring story of turning a personal loss into wonderful progress for all! Thousands of people die every year just because of the potholes littering India’s roads. And after his own son lost his life, this father became the change the country needs. Just check out the impact he’s having…
14 minutes
Leon Logothetis is Proving the Kindness of Strangers is Alive and Well!
By Dr. Lynda
Is it possible to travel the country only relying on the kindness of strangers? The person we’re highlighting in this piece proves it is! Take a look at the impact this has on peoples lives and how we can all tap into the kindness all around us.
[ blog ]
The Conspiracy Chronicles: Aging with Grace, June 2019
What can we do age more gracefully? As the world’s population is aging, how can an older generation continue to share their knowledge and time?
9 minutes
[ Innovation ]
Turning Plastic Bags into Speakers!
By Sam Burns
Some of the most important innovators of our time are finding ingenious ways to look at waste as a resource. Here’s a clever group that has found an artistic and functional way to use single-use plastic bags!
6 minutes
[ Culture ]
How a High School in a Nursing Home is Changing Lives
What if we saw this new wave of people reaching retirement as a new generation of mentors? Connecting youth and older adults has remarkable benefits for everyone! Heres how one program is helping lead the way for whats possible.
13 minutes
[ Conservation & Sustainability ]
Old Cellphones: The Key to Stopping Climate Change
By Dr. Lynda
Deforestation causes more emissions than all of the cars and trucks on our planet combined, so what can we do to stop it? Could the unlikely hero in this story be the old cell phone tucked away in your junk drawer? It is! Read on and you’ll see problem-solving at its best!
10 minutes
[ Thought Leaders ]
Alaffia: Proof that Traditions are a Global Resource We Can All Enjoy!
By Sam Burns
Does economic prosperity always have to come at the cost of tradition? Or can tradition help us create an even better business model? Let us introduce you to Alaffia, a company that has found a way to harness centuries of knowledge to empower a new generation of skilled craftswomen.
25 minutes
How You Can Help Remove Thousands of Pounds of Litter from our Planet Every Year!
Look almost anywhere and you’ll see litter, so what can we do to be better stewards of the environment? Why not join a growing movement of people taking little steps to collect thousands of pounds of litter, together! Heres a story that will inspire you to get involved.
15 minutes
[ Nature ]
Use Your Love for Eating to Save the Coral Reef!
By Sam Burns
Love food? This is one way you can use that love for good. Lionfish populations have gone out of control in areas that these fish were never meant to be and they’re endangering coral reefs. But we can use our stomachs to help!
[ blog ]
The Conspiracy Chronicles: Litter, May 2019
What can we do to pick up and prevent litter? Here are some ways you can help fight this problem and join people around the world hard at work, too!
20 minutes
[ Creativity ]
ArtLifting: The Business of Empowering Hidden Talents
ArtLifting began as a business working to empower homeless and disabled artists by giving them a marketplace for their work. Now, they’ve grown into a model that makes us ask: What if more businesses worked to energize the hidden talent around the world? How could that change all of our lives?
35 minutes
[ Thought Leaders ]
The Unexpected Ways Surfing is Helping Youth Heal
By Sam Burns
Life is tough, but it’s a whole lot easier when we’re around people who share similar experiences in a no pressure environment. Waves for Change is one of the organizations out there harnessing the power of sport and play to create environments where children are able to open up and heal!
15 minutes
[ Happiness & Hope ]
#ConspiracyofGoodness: A Movement That’s Changing our Future
By Dr. Lynda
Why don’t we know about the awe-inspiring people who are making the world a better place? There is already a movement underway of people working towards a better collective future and you’re already a part of it. This is the Conspiracy of Goodness, the movement all around us just waiting to be celebrated!
17 minutes
[ Innovation ]
Meet the People Using Technology to Save Our Coral Reefs
Coral reefs are some of the most important ecosystems on the planet to each and every one of us, but few realize the connection. You may know coral is in danger, but the future isn’t as dark as we so often hear. Meet the people who are hard using amazing, cutting-edge technology to save our corals and building a brighter future for us all!
