Restoring the Rainforest by Helping Locals Become Eco-Entrepreneurs
Can you make an impact on saving a rainforest, even though it may be far from your front door? With this nonprofit, you can do just that and help save the rainforest from your couch!
The 2,000-Pound Vegetarians Slowing Climate Change
Some of our best environmental engineers when it comes to winning the race to slow climate change have turned out to be these natural (and very cute) prairie-preserving specialists! Here’s how bison are restoring a previously destroyed landscape and keeping tons of carbon out of our atmosphere along the way.
Weeds are a Good Thing! Why the Biodiversity in Your Backyard Matters
It’s difficult to fully comprehend the stunning complexity and diversity of life on our planet, and even more difficult to understand how deeply that complexity and diversity matters. Ready for a deep dive into why biodiversity matters? Read on to see how you can help the planet by starting in your own backyard!
This Glam Squad Lifts Spirits and Self-Esteem for Hospital Patients
Making hospital patients feel beautiful is the mission of the nonprofit Simply From the Heart. But it is much more than just providing glam. The organization’s volunteers – called the glam squad – lift spirits and self-esteem wherever they go.
Growing a Revolution: How Community Gardens are Changing Your Neighborhood!
To leave a legacy that helps the world, you need only go as far as your local empty lot! By bringing gardens back to the empty spaces in NYC’s neighborhoods, Hattie Carthan and Liz Christy started a movement that brought life to formerly desolate spaces, and their work is still flourishing all around the city’s residents today.
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By studying mathematics and science, humans have the ability to answer questions that would have otherwise been deemed “unanswerable”. So, let’s discover how math sneaks its way into our lives inside of our lives every day.
How Critical Thinking Can Empower You to Do More and Succeed
Do you consider yourself a critical thinker? Are you able to solve problems rationally, evaluate information objectively, and arrive at conclusions based on factual evidence? Critical thinking is a skill—one that can be honed and developed with practice and time. Whether you inherently possess this talent or not, rest assured that you, too, can foster…
Change Your Habits By Learning How They Change Your Brain!
Have a habit you’d like to change? Here’s what you need to know about how your brain works to make it happen! This is a game-changer for expanding your life and possibilities.
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Restoring the Rainforest by Helping Locals Become Eco-Entrepreneurs
Can you make an impact on saving a rainforest, even though it may be far from your front door? With this nonprofit, you can do just that and help save the rainforest from your couch!
The 2,000-Pound Vegetarians Slowing Climate Change
Some of our best environmental engineers when it comes to winning the race to slow climate change have turned out to be these natural (and very cute) prairie-preserving specialists! Here’s how bison are restoring a previously destroyed landscape and keeping tons of carbon out of our atmosphere along the way.
Weeds are a Good Thing! Why the Biodiversity in Your Backyard Matters
It’s difficult to fully comprehend the stunning complexity and diversity of life on our planet, and even more difficult to understand how deeply that complexity and diversity matters. Ready for a deep dive into why biodiversity matters? Read on to see how you can help the planet by starting in your own backyard!
This Glam Squad Lifts Spirits and Self-Esteem for Hospital Patients
Making hospital patients feel beautiful is the mission of the nonprofit Simply From the Heart. But it is much more than just providing glam. The organization’s volunteers – called the glam squad – lift spirits and self-esteem wherever they go.
Growing a Revolution: How Community Gardens are Changing Your Neighborhood!
To leave a legacy that helps the world, you need only go as far as your local empty lot! By bringing gardens back to the empty spaces in NYC’s neighborhoods, Hattie Carthan and Liz Christy started a movement that brought life to formerly desolate spaces, and their work is still flourishing all around the city’s…
The Remarkable Organization Saving Kenya’s Orphaned Elephants
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Oh Dam! How Beavers are Master Environmental Engineers… and Might Just Save the World
Imagine if we had millions of eager, highly skilled, environmental engineers, ready to devote their lives to fight drought, forest fires, and flooding — 24/7, 365 days a year — never asking for payment, just wanting to be left in peace. Wouldn’t we want to welcome them to our communities? Well, you don’t have to…
What the Worm?! How Vietnam’s 4000-year-old Silk Industry Is Making a Comeback
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The Green Book: Why a 1950’s Travel Guide is Important Today!
In a time before the internet and GPS, Victor Green connected people all across the United States! He created a revolutionary travel guide that made the tradition of family road trips explode across the country! Here’s how the Green Book changed history—and why you’ve probably never heard of it.
Generations of Love Sewn into the Quilts of Gee’s Bend
In a tiny community tucked in a bend in the Alabama River, quilters are carrying on a tradition over a century old. In the past few decades, their quilts have moved from bedroom cupboards to the walls of museums across America! Here’s their beautiful story.
Best Friend or Bully? The Power of Positive Self-Talk
Talking to yourself. Is it a sign of intelligence? Does it make you appear insane? Maybe a little of both. We’re breaking down fact from fiction about the different types of self-talk, and uncovering why the words we say to ourselves hold such immense power around our personal happiness.
The Joy of Sharing Ageless Wisdom with the Next Generation
Whether you’re just starting out on your journey or you’ve become a master of your craft, you can be a part of a cycle that goes back millennia. What is this ancient cycle and how can it apply to our lives today? Let’s head to the hills of Colorado and find out!
