Garden Library: A Neighborhood Transformed By Creativity

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November 1, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace Flowers are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade. - Rudyard Kipling - Garden Library: A Neighborhood Transformed By Creativity "The Garden Library is like our mother," says Sudanese asylum seeker Najmeldien (Nadeem) Ahmed. "It felt like my life in Israel started when I found the library." The Garden Library is a nonprofit initiative founded by Israelis in 2009. It started with two bookcases in the center of Levinsky Garden, a public park in one of Tel Aviv's poorest neighborhoods, now home to many African asylum seekers. Escalated levels of homelessness, substance abuse and crime stigmatize the area." Learn more about how a special initiative is changing that. { read more } Be The Change Sit in a public space in your neighbourhood. What do you notice about the people and the issues? If you're feeling brave, interact with someone by starting a conversation or just saying hello! COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News 24 Acts of Kindness To Restore Faith In Humanity Ten Things You Might Not Know About Love The Science of Love The Difference Between Listening & Hearing 16 Habits of Exuberant Human Beings 6 Habits of Highly Grateful People Power of Place: Photos From Around the World Gandhi's Ten Rules for Changing the World DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 150,360 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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Dad Invents Bionic Pancreas For Diabetic Son

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October 31, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running. - Zig Ziglar - Dad Invents Bionic Pancreas For Diabetic Son Inspired by his son David's experience living and managing Type 1 diabetes, Ed Damiano, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University, has invented a bionic pancreas that helps people with Type 1 diabetes manage their blood sugar. Read more to hear how the power of a parent's love has the potential to change the lives of millions of people living with diabetes. { read more } Be The Change Become a more empathetic person. Check out 'A Day in the Life of Diabetes," an initiative by the American Diabetes Association to tell the stories of those living with diabetes. Read here: http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/a-day-in-the-life-of-diabetes/ COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The College Course That's Changing Lives The Science of Love The Difference Between Listening & Hearing Building A Regret Free Life 16 Habits of Exuberant Human Beings 6 Habits of Highly Grateful People 18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently Resilience: The Opposite of Depression DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 150,340 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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DailyBread: A Simple Idea That's Feeding The Hungry

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October 30, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul. - Dorothy Day - DailyBread: A Simple Idea That's Feeding The Hungry Simplicity can be disarming. That's what Carolyn North discovered. It started with an impulse to save the leftover Thanksgiving turkey her neighbor had discarded as trash. Thirty years later, she and a rotating team of friends-turned-volunteers have been quietly recovering surplus food and delivering it to free food shelters and pantries across the San Francisco Bay Area. { read more } Be The Change For one week, take less than what you think that you want at a meal to find unity with those who do not have that choice. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News 24 Acts of Kindness To Restore Faith In Humanity The One Thing They Carried With Them 15 Serious Games Aiming to Change the World The Science of Love Relationships Are More Important than Ambition Building A Regret Free Life 10 Creative Rituals To Learn From Power of Place: Photos From Around the World DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 150,334 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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Trash Into Treasure: 6 Cool Things Made From Sea Plastic

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October 29, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way. - Tom Freston - Trash Into Treasure: 6 Cool Things Made From Sea Plastic Garbage washed onto beaches of Kenya becomes shoes; old fishing nets are transformed into skateboard ramps. Read more to find out how people around the world are creating unique solutions for reusing plastic! { read more } Be The Change What creative idea can you think of for how the wast you produce every day can be reused? COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The Science of Love The Difference Between Listening & Hearing 16 Habits of Exuberant Human Beings 6 Habits of Highly Grateful People Gandhi's Ten Rules for Changing the World Maya Angelou On Resilience and Children Ladder to the Pleiades The Generosity Paradox DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 150,289 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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