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Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Health care in America has always run at a high cost. In Utah, hospitals are taking action to make pharmaceuticals affordable for all.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
The homeless epidemic affects millions of people in the US each year. In Denver, a program is giving the homeless jobs, resources, and getting them...

  • Added: Apr 26, 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
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
In true Gryffindor fashion, A group of Harry Potter fans are using their powers for good by requesting ethically sourced Harry Potter chocolate.

  • 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.
Bees are good for much more than stinging. With bee populations rapidly declining, Cedar Rapids is finding a way to give them a second shot.

  • Added: Apr 20, 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.
KNCE True Taos Radio began in October of 2014 as a radical experiment in community radio in Taos, New Mexico.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A safe place to sleep for the homeless, on buses, designed as sleeping pods.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:22
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
In an effort to combat their high levels of air pollution and reduce their carbon footprint, the People’s Liberation Army has deployed over 60,000 ...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:24
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
The coastal city of Boston is looking ahead to combat possible flooding issues due to rising sea levels. In a pre-emptive move, the city is working...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:31
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Bard College, a small Private University in New York State, offers the Bard Prison Initiative, or BPI, to interested inmates who have committed ser...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:33
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Protecting forests by turning them into graveyards.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:19
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
In Great Britain, the milkman is returning to your door with glass milk bottles.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:24
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
KaBoom is a national non-profit organization dedicated to giving every child the childhood they deserve. Their mission is to “make play easy by int...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Toronto Chef, Jagger Gordon, came up with the Feed It Forward concept after seeing so much food go to waste in his industry.

  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A high school janitor opens her heart and a closet full of neccessities for kids.

  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Badass biker chicks motorcycle through city traffic to get mother's milk to babies.

  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
One man has given away over 60 thousand bicycles to kids and others in need.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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Tiny homes for the homeless in San Jose, California.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:34
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A San Francisco Man uses social media to connect the homeless with their families.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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More than 1,800 newspapers nationwide shut down or drastically downsized in the last 15 years. Many cities or towns now exist in “news deserts” – p...

  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 03:12
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30 Seconds of Democracy is series of 30 second spots. Each will offer a slice of our democratic freedoms, through history, law, and perspective wit...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2019
  • Length: 14:45
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Can tweets reveal how thoughts and moods shift throughout the day?

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, and KENW


  • Added: Jun 30, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: North Korean missile test , Credit:  Courtesy the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency
As tensions escalate between North Korea and the United States, Hawaii finds itself on the frontlines in preparing for a nuclear attack. Whether or...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:26