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Nov 2, 2026

The Tenderheart and the Roughneck

A journalist spent the last year of his dying father's life doing what he had always done with strangers but never ...

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Nov 1, 2026

'This Is the First Time I've Touched Grass': the Colleges Giving Social Prescriptions

Somewhere between the gorges and botanic gardens of Cornell University's campus, a student on a guided nature walk ...

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Oct 31, 2026

School Renamed After Janitor Who Spent 39 Years Uplifting Students

For 39 years, Marilyn Hampton swept floors, bought supplies for children who couldn't afford them, and turned smiles ...

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Oct 30, 2026

How I Learned to Read and Write at 42

For 42 years, Peter navigated a world built on words he couldn't read -- memorizing road signs, mapping routes in ...

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Oct 29, 2026

Nonprofit Turns Vacant Lots Into Free Fruit Orchards

A small orchard planted 13 years ago at a shuttered Kansas CIty elementary school has grown into a national movement ...

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Oct 28, 2026

The Business School Experiment with No Prices

Early on in school, Gaurav Marathe embraced a Viraja mantra translated by a teacher: "Humans are like a candle. ...

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Oct 27, 2026

West Philly's Second Story Collective Pairs Students with Older Adults

What happens when two generations open their doors to one another? In West Philadelphia, a small but growing program ...

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Oct 26, 2026

Gen Z Is Rescuing Millions in Medical Supplies

What happens when young people see a problem that others have learned to overlook? Across the United States, a ...

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Oct 25, 2026

From Soil to Soul

Permaculture farmer Chau Quang Duong explains how the microbes that support life make up only 5% of the organic ...

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Oct 24, 2026

The Miniforest Movement Gains Ground in the U.S.

A 50-year-old Japanese planting method is quietly reshaping vacant lots, schoolyards, and parking strips across the ...

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Oct 23, 2026

A Legal Secretary Rode the Subway to Work for 67 Years. Nobody Knew She Had $9M.

For 67 years, Sylvia Bloom rode the subway to work, lived in a rent-controlled apartment, and walked through ...

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Oct 22, 2026

Notes From a Full-Service Grandad

When Liam Heneghan became a grandfather, he made a quiet promise: to be fully present in his granddaughter's life. ...

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Oct 21, 2026

The Call Is Real

Emanuel Kuntzelman has a special relationship with trees. Sitting in an apple tree at the early age of six, he ...

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Oct 20, 2026

He Wanted Kids to Understand Cancer. So He Turned It Into a Game

When Daniel Zhang was nine, he watched his grandmother lose her hair to chemotherapy and couldn't understand why ...

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Oct 19, 2026

Wildflowers

A grieving widower, still holding his loss from the day before, drove to a stranger's flower stand because his wife ...

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Oct 18, 2026

A Childhood Bike Crash Led to a Stranger's Gift, and a Hidden Message

Ten years after a childhood bike crash, Rika Matsuda unfolded an origami crane a stranger who witnessed the crash ...

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Oct 17, 2026

Meet the Retirees Turning Their Farms Into Wildlife Corridors

What if retirement offered an opportunity to give something back to the natural world? In Virginia's Shenandoah ...

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Oct 16, 2026

The Coral That Heals

A bleached coral, stripped of its color and slowly starving, can come back to life in just seven weeks -- if it is ...

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DailyGood Newsletters

The Tenderheart and the Roughneck

'This Is the First Time I've Touched Grass': the Colleges Giving Social Prescriptions

School Renamed After Janitor Who Spent 39 Years Uplifting Students

How I Learned to Read and Write at 42

Nonprofit Turns Vacant Lots Into Free Fruit Orchards

The Business School Experiment with No Prices

West Philly's Second Story Collective Pairs Students with Older Adults

Gen Z Is Rescuing Millions in Medical Supplies

From Soil to Soul

The Miniforest Movement Gains Ground in the U.S.

A Legal Secretary Rode the Subway to Work for 67 Years. Nobody Knew She Had $9M.

Notes From a Full-Service Grandad

The Call Is Real

He Wanted Kids to Understand Cancer. So He Turned It Into a Game

Wildflowers

A Childhood Bike Crash Led to a Stranger's Gift, and a Hidden Message

Meet the Retirees Turning Their Farms Into Wildlife Corridors

The Coral That Heals

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