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Meet the Retirees Turning Their Farms Into Wildlife Corridors

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Oct 17, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Oct 17, 2026 "We do what we do purely for the enjoyment of nature." — Debbie Sessler 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 Valley, two retired neighbors, John Rice and John Sessler, are doing just that, transforming their farmland into thriving habitats for wildlife. Working alongside Smithsonian conservation scientists, they've helped protect nearly 2,500 acres of private land, creating corr...

The Coral That Heals

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Oct 16, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Oct 16, 2026 "We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically." — Neil DeGrasse Tyson 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 placed in contact with a healthy twin. Researchers at Stanford University recently discovered that when genetically identical coral fragments touch, their tissues fuse into what scientist Danny Collins calls "a nutrient highway," and withi...

Wild Hope: A City in Nature

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This week's inspiring video: Wild Hope: A City in Nature Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Oct 15, 2026   Wild Hope: A City in Nature   How does a densely populated, skyscraper-lined nation like Singapore transform into a lush green oasis where wildlife thrives alongside human...

The Basketballer Who Assembled a Stranger's Vacuum

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Oct 15, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Oct 15, 2026 "Always be a little kinder than necessary." — James M. Barrie The Basketballer Who Assembled a Stranger's Vacuum When a 94-year-old woman in Melbourne discovered that the new vacuum cleaner she wanted was sold out, she faced a disappointing trip home. But a stranger standing nearby overheard her predicament and quietly offered to drive two hours to another store, collect the vacuum, and deliver it to her door. The stranger even assembled it for her, and the two later shared coffee. Only afterward did the woman learn ...

Into the Ocean at Dawn

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Oct 14, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Oct 14, 2026 "One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love." — Sophocles Into the Ocean at Dawn Two days after her daughter died, Keri Jones walked back to the beach. Not because she had somewhere to be, but because she needed, as she put it, to give herself to the water. That instinct -- to seek the ocean in the middle of grief -- led her back to the Wednesday Ocean Waders, a group that began in 2021 when a yoga teacher and her son posted on a community page inviting strangers to wade into the dark at 7am....

How New York City Students Saved School Lunch

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Oct 13, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Oct 13, 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 Thunberg How New York City Students Saved School Lunch Leslie Gomez Rivera didn’t like anything about the cafeteria at her Brooklyn high school, and had little hope it would change. Then she heard about Youth Food Advocates that supports students to advocate for change. They provided Leslie with the information and tools to do something about it. Leslie created a survey of other studen...

How a Group of Cherokee Youth Made History Fighting for a Sacred River

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Oct 12, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Oct 12, 2026 "It is our responsibility to safeguard the water for all our relations." — Robin Wall Kimmerer How a Group of Cherokee Youth Made History Fighting for a Sacred River A group of Cherokee girls, ages 10 to 17, set out to protect a salamander and ended up making legal history. Guided by elders who told them to start with the water itself, the NAIWA Daughters spent a year and a half hosting community dinners, meeting council members one by one, and showing up, as their founder Jasmine Smith described, "tired, overwhelme...