GGID-Giving Good Its Due: Recent Episodes
Danielle Levy
Because the world is more than its problems this podcast is about the projects, activities, people and organizations which help us see good things—meaning what can help us resolve our problems, think more inclusively about issues, develop compassion, remove barriers to social justice, lessen suffering, reinforce the higher angels of our humanity or work toward unity.
The first Arab majority city in the US allows us to understand Arabs as regular Americans
The US Supreme Court abortion decision is in many ways responsible for an uptick in vasectomies.
The Irish government now as a national adoption registry hopefully providing answers for thousands.
Migrant workers worldwide send home billions of dollars annually making a difference in the economy of their countries.
A website will now document and make it easier for enslaved indigenous people and their families to trace their histories.
This website with interviews of lifers at Angola state prison spurs us to think about our criminal justice system.
Key parts of ghost guns kits will now have to have serial numbers making the guns traceable.
Aging is not all going downhill, better get better at regulating their emotions and feel happier because of itl
The use of photosynthesis to increase crop yield is seen as a way to answer the growing need for food.
LGBT+ communities are being recognized even as public discourse attempts to be adverse.
Food waste is a moral, financial, environmental and societal problem. Now, several apps exist to help control it.
Wikipedia our easy go-to for information manages to overcome the divisiveness of the issues it addresses.
In several states hairdressers and barbers are being trained to recognize signs of domestic abuse.
Dicks Sporting Goods's stand on guns is showing the power corporations can have on gun violence.
In many countries instead of checking out a book people can go to the library and talk to someone about their special experiences.
As a human being without her crown Elizabeth II personal accomplishment can be an example.
in 2020 and in 2021 remittances to Mexico from family members outside the country reached 50 billion dollars!
A new process overcoming the obstacles to recycle fabrics ended up creating a brand new one.
Some migrants are turning to activism as a way of coping with the mental health issues of being undocumented.
An innovation to save birds and another to save porpoises compensate for human activity harming animals.
Perhaps a silver lining of Covid is that it is increasing our trust in science and scientists.
Increasingly people are endorsing and countries are legalizing the right to die with dignity.
3-D printed prosthetic eyes are more affordable and fit better, a boon to those who need them and to the promise of 3-D.
Although controversial New York City giving non-citizens the right to vote in local elections helps democracy.
Ordinary Poles seeing parallels with the holocaust and those who hid Jewish children, help migrant refugees.
Alexei Navalny's daughter copes with her father's imprisonment and in coping becomes an example.
Extracting minerals from plants may lessen the impact of mining and help the environment.
Programs in several California prisons are showing that inmates are more than their worst deeds.
Some 150 business leaders declaring themselves against the death penalty is seen as a boost to end it.
The work of forensic anthropologists who work with police departments is making inroads debunking myths about race.
Because they are like a canary in a coal mine, here are two efforts to save butterflies.
Using Flax seed oils which dries like a resin much improves the lives of those with dirt floors.
The CEO who had raised his company's minimum wage to $70,000 now says his revenues have tripled.
As old as 3300 years this technology to cool without fuel or electricity is being redesigned and reused.
Madrid is constructing a ring of trees around the city to help with climate change issues.
Several apps offer help to the sight impaired so they can have access to package information.
The world's largest cocoa producer is in the middle of turning cocoa plants waster into electricity.
As prisons close they are being repurposed in clever ways from holding files for banks to being a homeless shelter.
Amsterdam has a slave past which it is confronting in ways that may be useful to the US.
The Japanese art practice was recently applied to healing acts of violence against Asian Americans.
Tariq MaQbool on death row in New Jersey copes through his faith, hope and the exercise of what's best about him.
Dolan's Uighurs Cuisine restaurant in Alhambra, CA not only keeps Uighur culture alive but also tries to counter the systematic eradication of the culture China is attempting.
The pandemic is accelerating new models for the work week, models which may well make 9-5 a thing of the past.
The way George Washington manipulated the Pennsylvania Gradual Abolition Act reveals racism.
A new reparability law in France, the first in the world, begins to set standards to ease reparability of electronic appliances, reduce e-waste and reduce carbon dioxide in the environment.
People we call disabled are being used in space research not only to better understand space travel but also to hopefully travel there too.
Tiny urban forests using local plants create biodiversity and help heal the environment and climate change.
To increase the odds of finding a donor people needing kidney transplants are now turning to Instagram and other social media
Prim N Poppin is an online exhibit featuring the redoing of 5 ads from the 70’s to update our ideas of beauty.
Art pieces from people in prisons as well as a documentary about a former Guantanamo prisoner help us see the nobility of the human spirit.
Racism and white supremacy are now in the open creating the opportunity to stand up and assert our need for equality, justice and inclusiveness.
the first museum of happiness in Copenhagen explores what gives people happiness and also what makes a good society.
A deaf attorney with an interpreter voicing her arguments succeeded in presenting her case before a judge!
Illinois is the first state to do eliminate a cash bail system, thus allowing those who can’t afford bail to have the same privilege as those who can.
Lab grown diamonds are technically indistinguishable from mined ones, much cheaper and avoid human rights issues.
Acts of kindness are not only altruistic, they are also good for our physical health and can even prolong our lives.
The Mellon Foundation is funding projects to re-imagine monuments to be more inclusive and more reflective of our diversity.