World’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...
View ArticleWhy One Father Filled 1,450+ Potholes
When Dadarao Bilhore lost his 16-year-old son to a motorbike accident caused by a water-filled pothole on a flooded Mumbai road in 2015, grief could have sealed him shut. Instead, a month later, he...
View ArticleHe Sold His $100M Company to Clean Festival Floors
Xavier Ginesta built one of Spain's most celebrated companies — a global payments firm twice named a best place to work — and then sold it for over $100 million. Not to retire. Not to launch a startup....
View ArticleBirds as Sonic Neurotransmitters Across Species
At the confluence of a bird's two windpipes, sitting directly over its heart, is a sound-making organ no larger than a lentil -- and from this tiny syrinx, a dozen rings of bone and two dozen muscles...
View ArticleFive Decision-Making Lessons from Bugs
An ant has a poppy-seed-sized brain and no map, no manager, no meeting -- and yet ant colonies reliably find the shortest path to food every time. This piece explores five surprisingly practical...
View ArticleShe Came Around the Counter
On the day of her mother's funeral, with rain splitting open a dry summer sky, Helen walked into an office store in Taree, Australia, to print a eulogy. It was nearing the end of 2015 and the...
View ArticleWhat You Don't Have to Carry
As a very young mother, Patricia Lim took on great responsibility in the care of her children and household. She took on even more to become a psychologist, and an executive for the UN in Brazil. After...
View ArticleFifteen Balloons Blocked His Rear Window
He had a car stuffed with fifteen birthday balloons and was soulfully singing along to a sacred chant when he reversed full-speed into a stranger's brand-new SUV. What Matthias Hombauer did next --...
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