Featured Events: Creating Community In The Time Of Covid-19
The International Jin Shin Jyutsu Faculty (the Mary Burmeister, Jiro Murai lineage) invite you to join us for a free daily, live, Jin Shin Jyutsu self-help meditation…
Good News Headline 3/31/20
One of the most pressing shortages facing hospitals during the Covid-19 emergency is a lack of ventilators. These machines can keep patients breathing when they no longer can on their own…
Good News Headline 3/24/20
You want to talk about “social distancing?” Here’s someone who really knows what that’s like, and how to deal with it.
A Letter From Covid-19 To Humans
Stop. Just stop. It is no longer a request. It is a mandate. We will help you.
Good News Headline 3/17/20
Even in the most desperate times, music can lift the spirits — as some Italian neighbors have proven by singing together in harmony from behind closed doors…
How To Prepare For Extended School Closings (And Not Lose Your Mind)
There is no getting around the fact that this is an extremely stressful time for all of us. There are concerns for our health, of course. But it’s not just that.
Being Treated At Home Can Help People Save Money And Heal Faster
People check into the hospital expecting to get better, but there are risks — and some even wind up getting sicker.
Good News Headline 3/10/20
Found in nearly 50 percent of supermarket products, palm oil is one of the most useful vegetable oils available. But it’s also a major driver of deforestation and habitat loss…
Good News Headline 3/3/20
Luxembourg Transport Minister Francois Bausch hailed a “great day” for the Grand Duchy, as it became the first country on Earth to make public transport tickets free…
Cause For Celebration…But Also Concern
The first week in February brought good news to holistic practitioners in Massachusetts.
Humanity’s 2020 Challenge
The entire universe is available to support you and awaiting your answer.
The Generation of Hope
A very exciting phenomenon is taking place. There is a groundswell of hope across the world being led by committed, passionate young activists.
Good News Headline 2/25/20
At the Green Free School (Den Gronne Friskole), in Copenhagen, educating children for a world affected by climate change begins with putting them in the right frame of mind.
How We Can Avert Our Society’s Drift Toward Disaster By Charting A Different Course
In 2015, I began experiencing the world in a different, less enjoyable way. It started with occasional bouts of nervousness that I didn’t recognize as anxiety — because I’d never experienced clinical anxiety before. In fact, 2015 was preceded by the happiest, most fulfilling decade of my life.
Good News Headline 2/18/20
No Native American tribe has ever received an invitation to store its traditional heirloom seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault…
The Collective Healing That Is Owed
Reparations is no longer only about a one-time payout to Black descendants of slavery.
Good News Headline 2/11/20
Torrential rain swept across Australia’s east coast over the weekend after years of drought — putting out two of the biggest and longest-burning bushfires in the country’s populous region of New South Wales…
Good News Headlines 2/4/20
Student body presidents of the Big Ten universities are calling on their schools to divest from the fossil fuel industry…
Good News Headlines 1/28/20
Members of the Blackfeet Nation want tourists to understand how the story of Glacier National Park is really the story of their nation.
This Is Better Than an Apology
Why repair attempts are even more powerful than saying sorry.
Good News Headlines 1/21/20
Why would a vegan cheese company want to reach across the aisle to help the competition?
To Confront Effects Of Trauma, Start With Self-Care
Resilience practices and culturally rooted health traditions show promise for overcoming trauma in real-life settings.
Good News Headlines 1/14/20
The world's largest privately-owned giant sequoia grove — home to the fifth largest tree on Earth — is now safe from development.
What’s In A Family Name?
A family shapes us from the moment we are born. We learn stories, beliefs, and traditions to help shape our identity. Everyone wants to know, “Who am I?” “Where do I belong in this big world?” “Who will accept me?” “Who can I relate to?”
Good News Headlines 1/7/20
One tiny Pacific nation has begun the new year with a ban on sunscreens that contain chemicals which affect the health of coral reefs and fish…
Good News Headlines 12/31/19
Serapium Forest is the most prosperous of Egypt’s 36 tracts of land that make up an ambitious program to combat desertification by creating sustainably managed commercial forests fed entirely by wastewater…
Maine Needs Our Help In Defeating Big Pharma
If Mainers do not comply with the new vaccine law and choose to opt out of even one dose of a required vaccine, they face expulsion from all public, private, parochial and online schools (preschool through graduate school) as well as termination from employment.
Americans Bankrupted By Health Care Costs: 4 Questions Answered
Medical bankruptcy has been a talking point for many Democratic candidates as they make their individual cases for health care reform. This begs a few questions about how widespread these bankruptcies are and what causes them.
The Christmas Menorahs: How a Town Fought Hate
Hari Kirin Kaur, director of Yoga at the Ashram in Millis, MA, shared this beautiful story, which she first heard at the Unitarian Church in Worcester.
Working At The Casa del Refugiado
For most of November I worked as a short-term volunteer at the Casa del Refugiado, the House of the Refugee, located near the border in El Paso, Texas.
