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Food insecurity plagues much of the developing world. Tasmanian agriculture scientist Bruce French is intending to change this tragedy by catalogin...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2021
  • Length: 02:34
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As the coal industry in West Virginia declides, a nonprofit is offering displaced workers an environmentally friendly industry instead—beekeeping.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2021
  • Length: 02:38
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
The average American meal travels on average 1500 miles from farm to table. In Orlando, a growing collective, are utilizing neighborhood front yard...

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
An endangered California butterfly is on the rise thanks to one man's efforts to restore their environment.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A devout Italian artist is building a cathedral made out of living trees.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Beautifying the world and saving the bees at the same time by making "seed bombs" that grow beautiful flowers perfect for pollination.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Why be buried in a casket when you can be buried as a tree? Bios urns are giving people a second shot at life after death.

  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Exercise is not all about improving your physique, but also your mind. Matt Morley has created a nature-immersed workout experience to improve both.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
In some US neighborhoods, it is easier to get a gun than fresh produce. In Los Angeles, Ron Finley is taking a stand - one garden at a time.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Kentucky doctors are prescribing ancient medicine that is proven to reduce diet-related illnesses: fruits and vegetables!

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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Planting and harvesting fresh food in a Los Angeles back yard grows a successful local food exchange.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A well-known fruit with a not-so-well-known history.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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In the search for more sustainable construction materials, a California artist is making bricks out of fungus, and they are stronger than concrete.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
There is a group of fruit loving, social-justice minded people who are breaking the law, all over San Francisco by illegally grafting fruit-bearing...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 02:42
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Farmers use bees to deter elephants from crop raiding.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 02:33
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A bee-saving plan in America's upper midwest.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:33
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Farmers are discovering that going organic pays well, reduces costs, and sustains the health of not only the people, but the earth itself.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:26
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Studies at Stanford University have shown that meal worms are able to eat Styrofoam and the enzymes in their guts break it down into something comp...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:24
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A determined New Yorker makes city composting a real thing.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:22
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
The city of Atlanta, Georgia is transforming 7 acres of unused land into the nation's largest food forest.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:36
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Niger is one of the largest and poorest countries in West Africa. While most of the country is in the Saharan Desert, a reclamation has begun, with...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 02:19