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How Playing Broken Instruments Brought Them Back to Life!

What do you do with a gymnasium full of broken instruments? Play them! Check out how this symphony of broken instruments repaired a community.

Image: The reflection of red sneakers in a puddle, looking upside down.

17 minutes

[ Education Enrichment ]

Discover the Man Who Sees Only with Sound! He’s Redefining What’s “Impossible”!

Daniel Kish has no eyes yet he can see the world around him using sound, much like a dolphin or bat, and he’s teaching us all to redefine what seems impossible.

Image: Photographer Andy Mann of Sea Legacy photo of a polar bear swimming right at the camera

20 minutes

[ #ConspiracyofGoodness ]

SeaLegacy: Celebrating Our Oceans and Saving Our Future

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!

Image: Precious Plastics team members with the plastic recycling workspace in the Maldives

12 minutes

[ Innovation ]

What’s Our Waste Worth? A Fresh Look a the Value of Our World’s Plastic Waste

What if we saw plastic waste as a valuable commodity and not just trash? The plastics littering our beaches and streets are an untapped resource just waiting to be explored by creative entrepreneurs around the world. Find out how!

22 minutes

What if We Celebrated What’s Right with the World?

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.

Image: Three giraffes gathered together looking like they are talking to each other

25 minutes

[ Culture ]

Empathy is the Renewable Resource We Can Tap Into Now

What if empathy was at the heart of the solution to changing the divisiveness that feels so dominant now? It turns out empathy isn’t a set trait, it’s something we can learn to develop, and it’s super easy to start! Here’s how you can easily start making a positive change!

Image: entrance to the Berkeley, California Adventure Playground!

8 minutes

[ Culture ]

The Playgrounds Encouraging Safer Play by Using Hammers and Nails!

Could a playground with hammers, nails, shovels, and building materials actually make play safer? Adventure playgrounds are helping kids develop valuable life skills, letting them experiment with controlled risk, and encouraging creativity, exploration, and self-confidence!

Image: Panoramic shot of a dynamic molecular gastronomy dish that Allen created.

24 minutes

Ever Wonder How Your Work is Measuring Up? This May Help!

Have you ever doubted your ability to finish something you’ve started? What’s inside this article may help you rethink your expectations. Here’s an amazing insight about trusting our guts, from one man’s journey through a 400-page molecular gastronomy cookbook (whew!)

Image: man holding bag, pouring in contents to fill pothole in busy road

5 minutes

Why Would One Man Fill 600 Potholes?

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…

Image: "Be Kind" written in chalk on a sidewalk

14 minutes

[ #ConspiracyofGoodness ]

Leon Logothetis is Proving the Kindness of Strangers is Alive and Well!

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.

Image: dead lightbulbs surround a single illuminated bulb

9 minutes

When Everything Seems Dark, Here’s How to Find Some Light

The next time you or someone you love faces a heartbreaking turn of events, there is a recipe for the resilience it takes to come out the other side of a loss with a remarkable sense of progress. Here’s a story that gives us all the keys to unimagined possibilities!

7 minutes

[ Nature ]

Mushrooms are Saving Honeybee Colonies!

Mushrooms are saving the day for us yet again! Did you know that 70% of the fruits and vegetables we eat count on bees for pollination, and yet bee populations are plummeting? But the good news here is that some mushrooms have been found to have an ingenious property that allows them to defend the beehives!

Image: Rain forest Connection founder places a device in a tree that uses an old cellphone to detect illegal logging

13 minutes

[ Conservation & Sustainability ]

Old Cellphones: The Key to Stopping Climate Change

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

Alaffia: Proof that Traditions are a Global Resource We Can All Enjoy!

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.

Image: Two whales spy hop to see the world around them above the water

17 minutes

[ Animals ]

Here’s What Killer Whales Have in Common with Your Grandmother!

Killer whales have more in common with your grandmother than you may think. It’s a fascinating story and an opportunity for all of us to easily make the world a little better place today! Turns out, some wise elders of the Pacific Northwest, grandmother killer whales, are at a tipping point for their survival, but we can influence that quickly. This is an amazing story and a chance to be change-makers!

Image: Man standing underneath a rock arch looking up at the stars of the night sky

20 minutes

[ Culture ]

Preserving Our Nights Skies: A Mission Beyond the Stars

When was the last time you gazed up at the stars of the night sky? Imagine if future generations didn’t have access to that wonder? Light pollution impacts 80% of humanity, and it can have serious impacts on our health and the planet. Here are the people working to save our dark skies and the easy ways you can make a positive impact too.

Image: Circles in water rippling outward

15 minutes

[ Happiness & Hope ]

#ConspiracyofGoodness: A Movement That’s Changing our Future

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!

Image: Framed shot of Ani Liu leaning over to smell a plant

8 minutes

Capturing the Scents of Our Loved Ones

Could we forever find comfort in our loved one’s smells? Artist and scientist Ani Liu is capturing their scents and creating perfumes (or small time capsules) out of them! See the impact this could have as she brings us through her lab!

Image: People celebrating wildly throwing colorful things in the air

20 minutes

[ Happiness & Hope ]

What We’ve Learned from 5 Years of Curating the Web

Want an antidote for the daily news, without completely abandoning ship? We’re celebrating 5 years of publishing “the rest of the story” here at Ever Widening Circles! So join us as we point you to some of the amazing topics we’ve discovered while curating the web for the insights and innovations being missed by most.

Image: Dozens of students in school uniforms celebrate graduation

20 minutes

The Haitian Project: A Blueprint for Solving Big Problems

What if the concept that could change the way we all look at solving the world’s most vexing problems is coming out of a nation facing the large brunt of them? It looks like the solution is thinking differently about how we decide to start attacking a problem. And this school in Haiti gives us just a glimpse of all of the possibility and hope that can come!

25 minutes

How to Handle Everyone’s Favorite Person: The Critic

Whenever we decide to put ourselves and our work out into the world, there’s one guarantee: there will be critics. But there is a very solid way we can alter how much of an impact they have on us. In her brilliant and motivating talk, Brené Brown gives us a few tools to do just that!

Image: Elderly couple hugging and smiling

7 minutes

So, What’s it like to Grow Older?

We have something that’s going to make you feel a whole lot better about growing older. These masters of aging gracefully and keeping your spirit lively have a few tips for us all!

20 minutes

[ Innovation ]

How an Engineer Created a Band that Broke the Charts

Is what you’re doing in life what you always thought you would be doing? Could you take what you know and create something new that could never have existed without you? Here’s the story of an engineer turned rock star, whose story is one we can all relate to!

Image: Four young ballerinas lined up and practicing next to a chain mail fence.

25 minutes

Building Futures One Plié at a Time

In a place where violence reigns, girls are finding refuge in a surprising way—and it’s all thanks to one amazing woman.

Image: A lone tree on an island with the sun setting on low tide around it.

11 minutes

[ Books ]

This is Day One (On Day Two)

What would our world look like if we were all tuned into recognizing and calling out the good in others? Could pride, trust, and potential soar? It is possible, and the fantastic Drew Dudley will help us with it.

Image: Artist completing a mural in NYC of a skyline and the text "This art is painted with air pollution"

5 minutes

Transforming Pollution into a Powerful Platform for Change

Can pollution from your tailpipe be turned into something positive? Air-Ink has found a way to turn the smog that would normally end up in our lungs into inks that artists are using to raise awareness. This innovation points to new possibilities for our future—take a look.

Image: High jumper in awkward looking position

13 minutes

[ Sports ]

What Does Impossible Mean?

In the quest to achieve the highest jump on record, athletes are pushing the limits of the human body and redefining the word “impossible”. But what do record-breaking jumps like this say about what is possible for any one of us to accomplish?

Image: A little girl smiling happily at the camera

9 minutes

[ Happiness & Hope ]

Helping Kids Find Community Even Without a Home