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Moving Windmills

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This week's inspiring video: Moving Windmills Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Sep 17, 2026   Moving Windmills   Experience the remarkable journey made by William Kamkwamba of Malawi. From having to drop-out of school due to poverty, William went on to invent his first windmi...

The Nets That Didn't Disappear

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 17, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 17, 2026 "Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come." — Greta Thunburg The Nets That Didn't Disappear Someone tried to make a fishing net disappear. They burned it at sea, melted it into a hard wheel of plastic, and threw it overboard — but it floated to shore anyway, already breaking into microplastics. That lump of charred nylon, found on a remote beach of Groote Eylandt, is a small portrait of a vast and stubborn problem: ghost nets, aband...

The Boar Who Slept in the Rain for Britney

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 16, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 16, 2026 "If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for inspiration. Inspiration will always be there." — Meister Eckhart The Boar Who Slept in the Rain for Britney Britney the pig had spent years alone in a backyard, and the damage showed: she hid in a shelter, threatening any creature who came close with a grunt that made even humans back away. Then Don Juan ("Donny") arrived -- a Kune Kune boar of gentle, unhurried steadiness -- and instead of joining the other nine welcoming pigs, he lay down right...

The ‘National Park’ That Stretches From Coast to Coast

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 15, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 15, 2026 "The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature." — Joseph Campbell The ‘National Park’ That Stretches From Coast to Coast Entomologist Doug Tallamy watched luna moths return to his Pennsylvania farm and documented over 1,380 moth species on land that was once overrun with invasives. The metamorphosis unfolded not through expensive intervention, but by pulling weeds and pressing native seeds into the ground. His insight, born from that quiet transformation, has...

A Dentist and 200 Bears

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 14, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 14, 2026 "Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem." — A.A. Milne A Dentist and 200 Bears When Alan Knight slid photographs of a broken-toothed bear across the desk, a Chichester dentist named Martin Mulcahy couldn't look away -- and couldn't say no. What followed was a 20-year detour into one of medicine's more improbable callings: dental surgery for rescued wildlife. His first patient, a 180-kilogram sloth bear named Anthony, died on the operating table three hours in -- anaesthesia go...

How Trees Stand Tall

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 13, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 13, 2026 "Learn character from trees, values from roots, and change from leaves." — Tasneern Harneed How Trees Stand Tall Lay a young poplar on its side, surround it with light from every direction, eliminate gravity's pull — and watch what happens. Over time, the tree rights itself, pushing back toward vertical through a mechanism that looks, functionally, like a muscle. Researchers from France's INRAE have confirmed what was only suspected fifteen years ago: trees produce a specialized "tension wood" on altern...

Wendell Berry’s Life on Earth

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 12, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 12, 2026 "It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings." — Wendell Berry Wendell Berry’s Life on Earth Wendell Berry spent 92 years insisting that the largest problems in the world are answered, first, in the smallest gestures -- a seed planted, a field tended, a pencil drawn across paper. The writer and farmer from Henry County, Kentu...