Nairobi Is Transforming Neglected Libraries Into Vibrant Civic Hubs
When Sunil Totti needed a reliable place to prepare for a job interview -- somewhere the power wouldn't cut out mid-call -- he thought of Eastlands Library in Nairobi, a building he once avoided as "a...
View ArticleAfter Being Laid Off, She Gives Away 100 Cookies Every Weekend
Liz Tierney makes about 100 cookies on a weekend, and leaves them in one of the Little Free Libraries near her home. She began after being laid off from her job when “she spent a lot of time thinking...
View ArticleShe Looked For Her 4th Grade Teacher for 22 Years. Finding Her Led to a...
For 22 years, Olivia Bean held onto the memory of a teacher whose name she didn't know - only that this woman had driven a child living in a motel home from school each day, offering her "a few minutes...
View Article60 Bentos Cooked in the Dark
The night after Hurricane Lowell swept through Kaua'i, with their own power out, Damian and Donna Loo drove to a friend's house with a backup battery and cooked 60 bentos for elderly neighbors who had...
View ArticleThe TikTok Mob Reversing Online Bullying
Tyler Brickley started one of the internet's most disarming social experiments: a half-million-strong TikTok "army" he deploys, mob-style, to flood strangers being bullied online with kindness. When...
View ArticleShops Without Shopkeepers: the Civic Lessons Hidden in Northeast India
Trust replaces policing and government dictates in various villages in northeast India. Cars queue for their turn at unmarked junctions without beeps, traffic lights, or police. Cutting a lane without...
View ArticleReforesting Ethiopia with 50 Billion Trees, One Step at a Time
When Halima Kedir began planting trees in Ethiopia's drought-prone Oromia region, her neighbors laughed. But she kept walking an hour each way to fetch water for her seedlings, tending them, she says,...
View ArticleWorld’s First Solar Ambulance Completes Its First Real-World Test in Rural Kenya
In the Narok region of Kenya, where rough roads stretch for hours between communities and the power grid cannot be counted on, a different kind of ambulance recently made its first journey - not toward...
View ArticleMeet the Young Nigerian Innovator Building a Climate-Resilient Food System
Stephanie Meltus traces her calling to a childhood memory - standing proudly before five corn ridges alongside her puppy Beulah - and from that ordinary moment of wonder, she has built something...
View ArticleWe Die of Life
Days after entering hospice care, poet and activist Belinda Manning sat down in an intimate circle of friends who requested her story. Among the many gems that surfaced, one thread that has woven...
View ArticleThe Nets That Didn't Disappear
Someone tried to make a fishing net disappear. They burned it at sea, melted it into a hard wheel of plastic, and threw it overboard — but it floated to shore anyway, already breaking into...
View ArticleThe Boar Who Slept in the Rain for Britney
Britney the pig had spent years alone in a backyard, and the damage showed: she hid in a shelter, threatening any creature who came close with a grunt that made even humans back away. Then Don Juan...
View ArticleThe ‘National Park’ That Stretches From Coast to Coast
Entomologist Doug Tallamy watched luna moths return to his Pennsylvania farm and documented over 1,380 moth species on land that was once overrun with invasives. The metamorphosis unfolded not through...
View ArticleA Dentist and 200 Bears
When Alan Knight slid photographs of a broken-toothed bear across the desk, a Chichester dentist named Martin Mulcahy couldn't look away -- and couldn't say no. What followed was a 20-year detour into...
View ArticleHow Trees Stand Tall
Lay a young poplar on its side, surround it with light from every direction, eliminate gravity's pull — and watch what happens. Over time, the tree rights itself, pushing back toward vertical through a...
View ArticleWendell Berry’s life on Earth
Wendell Berry spent 92 years insisting that the largest problems in the world are answered, first, in the smallest gestures -- a seed planted, a field tended, a pencil drawn across paper. The writer...
View ArticleGander's Solace in a Time of Crisis
On the morning of September 11, 2001, 38 planes descended on a small Canadian town of 12,000 people who had no plan, no warning, and no hesitation. Gander, Newfoundland -- perched at the edge of the...
View ArticleAt 96, the 'Third Part of Life' May Be the Best of All
At 96 years-old, Alice McGinty does resistance training three times a week, travels to Costa Rican jungles, and shows her paintings -- work that has grown more vivid and abstract since macular...
View ArticleWire Baskets of Books at the Laundromat
On the wall of a laundromat in Wyoming, Ohio, four wire baskets hold books like Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel -- each one stickered with an invitation to "Read it, Love it, Pass it on." It's a...
View ArticleWhat Clowns Know About Saying Yes
Natalie Porias never planned to lead an organization of professional clowns working in earthquake zones and hospices -- she just Googled "fundraising" and applied for an open internship in that...
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