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The Dutch are building solar-powered roads in the form of bike paths to generate electricity for local use.

  • Added: Oct 04, 2021
  • Length: 02:39
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A mobile phone app and web platform that allows people to search for, discover, and rate public places based on how accessible they are for everyone.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:36
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An Austin-based construction technologies company on a mission to make safe, affordable housing using 3D printer technology.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Art should be able to be enjoyed by all. Thanks to 3-D and audio technology, the blind are able to experience art on their own terms.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Lunch-room anxiety is real for people of all ages. A California high-schooler is finding everyone a seat with her new app,

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
There is a floor tile that uses the power of footsteps to generate electricty!

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Step on a crack, break your mother's back! But what if the concrete never cracks? A microbiologist has invented living, self-patching concrete.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Spinal cord injuries are mostly considered irreversible. Scientists from Duke University are changing that by utilizing virtual reality technology.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:31
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Air, water, and art. The three things a Dutch artist is using to lead an environmental change.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:13
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Inspiring social change with photographic art to to showcase the severity of E-waste.

  • Added: May 14, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A local energy crisis inspired one Rwandan youth to begin developing sustainable technologies for his village and his country.

  • Added: May 14, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Social enterprising helps impoverished small share farmers in Africa and Asia save money through cellular technology.

  • Added: May 14, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
The aviation industry is one of the largest users of fossil fuels. The solution could be in the middle east where A branchy-like plant is looking v...

  • Added: May 03, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Cigarettes are horrible for you, but their butts are quite useful for recycling. A garbage startup in New Jersey is turning trash into outdoor furn...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Move over Tesla, a collaborator of Swiss Companies has created a prototype dump truck that might even be able to sell electricity back to the grid!

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Dutch engineers find a way to bring drinkable water to South Africans by combining it with their favorite sporting pastime.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Why throw away your spoon if you can eat it? A new solution to disposable plastic utensils.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Pay up! A team of social scientists in France and Spain develops an algorithm that helps save you money while redistributing wealth.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A clever re-using of plastic brings cool comfort to millions.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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Professors at the University of Delaware create innovative and affordable wheel chairs from kid cars, for very young children.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 02:49
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Researchers from Saudi Arabia’s set out to solve the dilemma of conserving the Earth's scarce resource—freshwater—by developing a salt water toilet.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
“Play for Power” charging swing sets generate power for commuters.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:19
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
"Bioprinting" is combating the life-threatening organ shortage with 3D printing.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:25
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Harvesting water from thin air... yes, really.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WYAP


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A Grand Rapids, Michigan man is using the power of instant shopping and delivery for good and sharing how he does it, with the world.

  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:30