An Innovation That Is Lighting India's Villages

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November 8, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. - George Kneller - An Innovation That Is Lighting India's Villages Worldwide about 1.5 billion people lack access to electricity, a statistic hard to fathom in our current digital age. In India, more than 400 million people have no electricity. Gyanesh Pandey, who grew up in a village in Bihar, India without electricity, and three of his friends are creating a different reality for thousands of people through a company they founded known as Husk Power Systems. Read more to learn how Pandey and his friends are harnessing their creativity and entrepreneurial spirit to generate power for rural dwellers far removed from the national power grid from rice husks. { read more } Be The Change Learn more about Husk Power Systems here. And do something small today to bring a ray of light into your own community! { more } 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 Relationships Are More Important than Ambition 6 Habits of Highly Grateful People Maya Angelou On Resilience and Children Ladder to the Pleiades The Generosity Paradox DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 150,695 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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Turning The Soup Kitchen Upside Down

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November 7, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures. - bell hooks - Turning The Soup Kitchen Upside Down If you've ever volunteered in a soup kitchen, you know the feeling of having served others. But what about those on the other side of the food line? Are they getting what they need most? Robert Egger, the founder of DC Central Kitchen, didn't think so. He set out to train homeless people on the streets of Washington, D.C. -- many of whom were drug addicts cycling in and out of a life of crime -- how to cook and earn a food handler's license. The goal was to help them trade addiction and crime for stable employment in restaurants and other food enterprises. The result has been a deepened sense of community for all. { read more } Be The Change Imagine a project that doesn't simply apologize for injustice in the world, but challenges its existence. What is the first, smallest step to make it happen? Take that step today. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Ten Things You Might Not Know About Love The Beautiful Fragility of Language The Difference Between Listening & Hearing Relationships Are More Important than Ambition Building A Regret Free Life 10 Creative Rituals To Learn From A Moving Letter from Fiona Apple Resilience: The Opposite of Depression DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 150,687 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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What I Wish I Knew When I Was A Freshman

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November 6, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. - Anne Frank - What I Wish I Knew When I Was A Freshman What would you say to your younger self if you had the chance? Charles Chaplain, the University Chaplain for the University of Pennsylvia, shares his reflections on ego and insecurity, and the advice he would have given himself at the age of 18. { read more } Be The Change Take a moment to this back to when you were half your current age. What advice would you have given yourself, and how can this inform the way you move through life today? COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News 24 Acts of Kindness To Restore Faith In Humanity Ten Things You Might Not Know About Love Relationships Are More Important than Ambition 10 Creative Rituals To Learn From 16 Habits of Exuberant Human Beings 6 Habits of Highly Grateful People Gandhi's Ten Rules for Changing the World Ladder to the Pleiades DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 150,658 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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The Compassionate Instinct

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November 5, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace In separateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength. - Albert Schweitzer - The Compassionate Instinct Although many question whether true compassion exists at all, recent studies are showing that compassion is deeply rooted in our brains, our bodies, and in the most basic ways we communicate. Dacher Keltner -- a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley -- shares more about the compassionate side to human nature in this article. { read more } Be The Change Tune into your innate sense of compassion today as you interact with other people, and see if the nature of those interactions changes. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News There's More to Life Than Being Happy 15 Serious Games Aiming to Change the World The College Course That's Changing Lives The Science of Love The Difference Between Listening & Hearing 10 Creative Rituals To Learn From 6 Habits of Highly Grateful People Gandhi's Ten Rules for Changing the World DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 150,438 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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