2019
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These are our stories!
May they uplift, inspire, and reassure you
that love is alive and well here on the planet.
.
.May they provide the encouragement
that motivates many to take action
on behalf of humanity, the planet and all sentient beings.
To submit your stories, please join us in our
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Or go to ‘Our New Story’ to submit.
2019
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Sustainability
Paul Hawkins
Project Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse climate change.
Justice
Valarie Kaur: Revolutionary Love
Acclaimed American interfaith leader and civil rights activist/attorney, Valarie invites us to labor for justice in revolutionary love.
Environmental Clean Up
Indian architect has created an algae wall to purify polluted water without harmful chemicals.
Relationships: Animals
Bison are roaming free in Indiana for the first time in 200 years.
Environmental Clean Up
Biodegradable Solubags dissolve in water.
Mental Health
Environmental Clean Up
Ocean cleaning device succeeds in removing plastic for the first time.
Environmental Sustainability & Clean Up
Peruvian Group launch compostable plates made of banana leaves.
Sustainability
Couple spends 20 years planting an entire forest and animals have returned.
Sustainability
Milkmen are returning to London a millennials order glass milk bottles in a bid to slash plastic waste
Energy, Sustainability, Youth
Malawian teen taught himself how to build a windmill from junk, brought power to his village. All learned from library books.
Youth, Environmental Sustainability, Climate Change
Greta Thunberg
Teen environmental activist Greta Thunberg delivered an emotional and scathing speech at the United Nations on Sept. 23, 2019, accusing world leaders of stealing her dreams and her childhood with their inaction on climate change.
Environmental Clean Up
France
France Is the First Country to Ban Plastic Cups, Plates, and Cutlery.
Youth, Environmental Sustainability
Nevada City, California
Youth took to the streets around the world in peaceful protest on behalf of Climate Change.
Sustainability: South America
Seven South American countries sign pact to protect the Amazon.
Environmental Sustainability
Conservation group to buy world’s largest privately held sequoia forest for $15M
Youth, Education, Mental Health
England
Mindfulness And Meditation Will Now Be Part Of The Curriculum In 370 Schools In England.
Transforming Relationships
Mental Health, Community Building
The Rwandan prescription for depression: sun, drum, dance, community.
Uplifting Our Lives: Inspiration Through Nature
Photo Credit: Firefighter Hillary Williams from the Jacks Fire north of Jacks Valley Road in Carson City, Nevada
Environmental Sustainability
For first time ever, scientists identify how many trees to plant and where to plant them to stop climate crisis.
How We Change
How to transform Apocalypse fatigue into action on Global Warming. The biggest obstacle to dealing with climate disruptions lies between your ears, says psychologist and economist Per Espen Stokes.
How Change Happens, Transformation
USA
Joanna Macy speaks of a Tibetan prophecy she was told about many years ago
about the times we are in.
Community Building, Mental Health
These people are fighting loneliness by listening to strangers in the street. This is a model that can be easily duplicated in any community.
Education
USA-School Violence
One Teacher’s Brilliant Strategy to Stop School Gun Violence- and it’s Not About Guns.
Transportation, Sustainability
India
India carmaker shows off a new air-powered car, the Airpod
Transportation, Energy
Germany
Germany has unveiled a zero emissions train that only emits water.
Mental Health, Food
Clinical psychologist Julia Rucklidge delivers a TED talk on the importance of nutrition and its role in mental health.
Relationships
Sustainability
Holland
Holland covers hundreds of bus stops with plants a gift to honeybees.
Sustainability, Food
Italy
Italy passes law to send unsold food to charities instead of dumpsters.
Environment
4 countries that give the natural world the same rights as humans.
Sustainability: Ireland
Ireland will plant 440 million trees by 2040 to combat climate change.
Relationships-Animals
Netherlands
The Netherlands have officially banned the use of wild animals in circuses.
Environment: Sustainability, Clean Up
California
A company called Restoration Packaging is making biodegradable cups infused with seeds to grow trees and plants and have produced the seeds to grow nearly 10 million new trees and plants!
Relationships
Mexico and USA
Seesaws allow children from the US and Mexico to play across the border.
Sustainability
Southern England
A forest garden with 500 plants could lead to a sustainable future.
Community Building, Energy, Sustainability
Good Sun and California Solar Electric Company of Grass Valley, Ca. have come together in one shared initiative: provide solar power to Utah’s Place, the only year-round emergency homeless shelter in Nevada County, Ca.
Health, Food
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Detroit hospital takes a real step towards healing, build first hospital organic greenhouse.
Food, Sustainability, Education, Health
Sausalito, California, USA
Meet the nations first school district to serve 100% organic meals.
Energy, Sustainability
Plains, Georgia, USA
Former President Jimmy Carter just made a solar farm to power half of his city.
Building Star Communities, Sustainability, Food, Energy
Amsterdam, Belgium
This new own food, power itself and handle its own waste.neighborhood will grow its own waste.
Environment: Clean Up, Relationships: Animals
Florida, USA
Brewery unveils six pack rings that feed sea turtles instead of killing them.
Sustainability, Food
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Sustainability
The many uses for Hemp.
Relationships- Animals
80 year old man builds a dog train to take rescued homeless dogs out on adventures.
Transportation, Sustainability
The Rasa: A hydrogen powered car that emits water instead of carbon dioxide.
Sustainability
Kiunga, Kenya
A solar-powered system can turn salt water into fresh drinking water for 25,000 people per day.
It could address the world’s looming water crisis.
Youth
Mombasa, Kenya
Kevin Oscar of Falcon Media Services is bringing youth together in his area to help reduce idleness. This project shows his crew volunteering to help build a church. In exchange, the pastor has given the youth a space to be in. Every 2 months, they have a different project every involving cleaning their neighborhoods.
Sustainability
Mombasa County, Kenya
Our latest blog post about an amazing restoration project in Mombasa County,Kenya. Have a look and leave your comments, and share to help further the mangrove reforestation effort to save our planet for our better future as well as for our marine species.
Environment, Clean Up
Europe
The European union just voted to ban the use of single use plastic by 2021.
Saving Senegal’s mangroves
Haidar el Ali’s reforestation project has planted 152 million mangrove buds in southern Senegal over the past decade!
Energy, Sustainability
Texas, USA
Wind is outpacing coal as a power source in Texas for the first time.
Sustainability, How Change Happens
Mexico
Mexican artists melts 1,527 guns, makes shovels to plant trees.
Sustainability, Housing
Nevada County, Ca. USA
Small, affordable backyard dwellings made with alternative materials.
Environmental Clean Up
Florida, USA
Meet the ocean clean up company that removed 4.7 million tons of trash.
Education, Youth
This school gives students PE credits for doing yard work for elderly people and people with disablitities.
Youth
Ireland
Irish teenager wins Google Science award for removing microplastics from oceans.
Sustainability
London, England
Sustainability
Buttocks Boutique making cloth diapers with velcro fasteners saving the earth of 6,ooo disposable diapers in the landfill per child.
How Change Happens
Youth
California
High School Cross Country Team takes lonely shelter dogs on their morning run.
Housing
Seattle, Washington, USA
They are getting it done. What SF can learn from Seattle on housing, homelessness.
Health
Iceland
American woman finds a lump while in Iceland, shares how awesome their healthcare is compared with United States.
Business
Patagonia
CEO Rose Marcario on her success at Patagonia
More info on their business model:
Environment, Clean Up, Business
Ikea
Ikea is replacing polystyrene packaging with mushrooms.
Sustainability
Sweden
Gudrunsjoden, a fashion and home accessories provider in Sweden “doing the right thing”, more than using organic and biodegradable products – having a”Holistic”, positive impact.
Sustainability
Scotland
Scotland planted 22 million trees in a year to combat climate change.
Health, Uplifting Our Lives
England
British doctors may soon begin “social prescribing” art, music and dance, ““Social prescribing can help us combat over-medicalising people.”
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Sustainability, Energy, Environmental Clean Up
Germany
Germany to close all 84 of its coal fired power plants, will rely primarily on renewable energy.
Communication, Health, Mental Health
News is bad for you and giving it up will make you happier.
Animal Relationships, Sustainability
Portland, Oregon
Frog Shuttle Project. Volunteers transport Northern Red Legged frogs across a busy roadway to their breeding grounds.
Sustainability, Food, Uplifting Our Lives
Movie: Biggest Little Farm
Lovely story of a couple who take a run down farm and bring back biodiversity to the land.
Energy and Sustainability
Hawaii
Tesla’s new solar farm with power Hawaii at night.
Environment: Clean Up
Costa Rica
Costa Rica has banned styrofoam, a major win for the environment.
Sustainability, Clean Up
Costa Rica
Costa Rica set to become the world’s first plastic free, carbon free country by 2021.
Sustainability, Energy
United States
US generates more electricity from renewables than coal for the first time ever.
Sustainability, Food
Sundrop Farms, Tennessee, USA
Solar panel farm grows 17,000 tons of food without soil, pesticides, fossil fuels or groundwater.
Sustainability, Energy
Los Angeles, California, USA
New Solar and battery price crushes fossil fuels, buries nuclear.
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Spirituality: Awakening, Relationships
Thailand
One million children get together and meditated for world peace in Thailand.
Environment: Clean Up
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Solar and Hydro powered Mr. Trash Wheel removes tons of trash non stop from Jones Fall river in Baltimore.