The Out of Eden Walk is Back!
Salopek and friends posing for a walker's picture togetherOutofedenwalk Instagram. The Out of Eden Walk is back on, folks! A Barstow native is continuing to walk across the world.
Read full storyBoulder is Hosting Adventure Yoga Tonight, You Won't Want To Miss It!
Have you heard of Adventure Yoga? I hadn’t before today, and now I'm totally stoked to try! Tonight from 7-10 at the A-Lodge Boulder (one of my personal favorite spaces in CO), there will be an Adventure Yoga workshop series with a live DJ, where people can come and build community in a positive environment while exploring what their bodies can do!
Read full storyAtlanta Pianist Gifted $70,000 By Complete Stranger
Tony Valentine's Face When He Heard He'd Be Getting $10,000Carlos Whittaker Instagram. Today's story is proof that simply doing something that you're passionate about can yield massive rewards if the right person is around.
Read full storyAtlanta Heroes (Including Pastor) Band Together To Save Man Who Passed Out In His Truck On The Atlanta Freeway
Heroes Try To Break The Window of Unconscious Man's TruckJasmina Alston Twitter. Every day, people are acting in heroic ways! Most of the time we don't hear about it, because the news loves to sell us fear. But every day, good things are happening across the country.
Read full storyMeet The Denver Professor Who's Empowering Women In Northern Ghana
Sugar outside The WGEF resource center in northern Ghana.WGEF Instagram. For most of her life, Karen Sugar has fought for social justice and equality for women. During her time in graduate school in Denver, Sugar was taught about microfinance. The potential that microfinance holds for the boosting of human dignity and alleviation of the trauma of poverty worldwide sparked her passion.
Read full storyMeet The Three Boise Women Who Met Because The Same Guy Was Cheating On Them... And Took A Road Trip Together
The three musketeers relaxing together mid bus constructionThe.bam.bus Instagram. I'm going to be honest, I got so excited about this story when I heard about it on Instagram that I had to dig deeper. This one made me laugh, then made me want to know more. I hope you have as much fun reading it as I did researching and writing it.
Read full storyThis Springfield Woman Is Giving Tiny Homes to The Homeless
Linda Brown, a realtor from Springfield, Missouri, is on a quest to make sure that her hometown is “a city where no one sleeps outside.”. For almost a decade, Linda and David, her husband, have run a local shelter where people experiencing homelessness can drop in to eat, shower, do laundry, sing karaoke, and play games like bingo. But they wanted to go above and beyond this calling.
Read full storyConservation For The Win: The Us Stops Timber Sales in Tongass National Forest
You can breathe a little easier today because up in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, the USDA has announced the end of old-growth Timber sales. They have stopped sales for the purpose of “returning stability and certainty,” to 9.3 million Acres of the biggest old-growth rainforest in the whole world.
Read full storyHero Cops, Good Samaritan and Bystander Save Melbourne Woman From Drowning After Her Car Goes Into River
It’s shortly after 1 a.m. Tuesday has just legally started, but no one’s awake, other than a few sleepy commuters and possibly a few people in Ubers, on the way back from bars. We’re standing on the Eau Gallie Causeway near Melbourne. It’s quiet, with the exception of a few passing cars.
Read full storyWhat Denverites Can Do To Limit Phone Use, According to Experts
Last month, a student looked me in the eyes like I was about to cause her physical harm, and begged: “Please don’t do that to me, Mr. Nichols.”. I had asked her to give me her phone until the end of class.
Read full storySouth Carolina State Erases $10 Million In Student Debt
Student debt is one of the direst future crises facing America. It has more than doubled since 2008 and has grown faster than any other source of household debt. In 2020, student debt had grown to 1.6 trillion dollars in the United States. That is double the amount of student debt that existed in 2008, Interestingly, student debt is not correlated with a growth in students. Undergraduate enrollment has only risen by 2% since 2008, and by only 12% at the graduate level.
Read full storyMemphis's 5 Safest Neighborhoods
Memphis is just freakin' cool. Various strains of blues and rock n' roll were cooked up in the city's musical stewpot. Elvis, B.B. King, and Johnny Cash all recorded at Sun Studio. Rock 'n' Soul Museum, Blues Hall of Fame, and Stax Museum of American Soul Music. The Civil rights museum and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art are killer attractions as well!
Read full storyCharleston Area Man Giving Hundreds of Cars to Those in Need
Eliot with a car donateeMiddleton's Village to Village Facebook Page. Eliot Middleton, owner and operator of Middleton’s Village BBQ in Awendaw South Carolina, spends his spare time fixing up donated junk cars through his nonprofit so that he can turn around and give them to people in his community who need them.
Read full storyThe 3 Safest Neighborhoods in St. Louis
St. Louis has a lot to offer. Six Flags St. Louis has got some awesome rides (I went as a kid and still remember it as my favorite theme park in the U.S.), the brewing tradition is strong, and there are outdoor sculpture gardens galore.
Read full storyTwo Colorado Girls Sell Lemonade To Raise Money For Slain Cop's Family
Gordon BeeselyArvada Police Department Facebook Page. Gordon Beesley was a beloved member of his community. He received the Arvada employee of the year award, and he was loved by everyone who knew him. His friends remember him as a jokester, a musician, a freewheeling hippie.
Read full storyVolunteer Pilot Reunites Long-Lost Dog With Family After 10 Years
Wade and Razzle on their missionJeremy Wade Facebook. A lot of things have happened since 2011. We've had three presidents, earthquakes and shootings and uprisings and tsunamis and terror attacks have happened all over the world, and one small dog named Razzle has been wandering around.
Read full storyColumbia Hero Cop Saves Disabled Woman From Burning Building
Last Friday, police officers were sent out to a structure fire in a Columbia home. When they arrived, Corporal Allen Ervin ran up to the burning building, where he was shocked to see a 37 year old nonverbal disabled woman. Ervin didn't hesitate. He ran straight in, taking the woman in his arms and carrying her out of the building.
Read full storyThe Sausalito Hero You've Never Heard Of
Olga Murray has got one of those classic American immigrant success stories that just blow your mind. She was born in 1925 in Transylvania, and her parents moved to the United States when she was six.
Read full storyThe Safest Neighborhoods In Detroit
Detroit, Michigan has a lot to offer! Known for craft beer, great food, an incredible music scene, and beautiful architecture, Detroit is a great place to relocate, and it’s very affordable. As I have family in Michigan (mostly on the west side) I've been to Detroit a few times. It's a great city!
Read full storyAtlanta's 5 Safest Neighborhoods
Atlanta, Georgia has a lot to offer. My uncle lived there for years and absolutely loved the city, saying he wouldn't live anywhere else. Unfortunately, Atlanta also has a much higher crime rate than the rest of the country, 110 percent higher than the average. The violent crime rate averages 1433 cases per 100,000 people every year. There is also an average of 1995 robberies and 2940 aggravated assaults per 100,000 people every year.
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