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July 14th, 2020
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
– Mark Caine
How to Plant
Nubia Gaona Cárdenas, a widowed Colombian mother, recently uploaded a YouTube video showing others how to plant fruits and vegetables. She never imagined the video, and her own humble family, would go viral.
Nubia & Sons: The channel, titled Nubia & Sons, shows viewers how to plant fruits, vegetables and herbs. A neighbor thought posting videos would be a good idea for the family to earn some income, especially since their father passed away two years ago. The family borrowed a camera and started posting videos of farm life, and offered little seed packets for sale to the viewers. They were hoping to get 50 seed orders from locals, and the boys volunteered to deliver the products.
Growth: Instead of 50, the family received over 5000 orders, from strangers all around the world. Now, the family is trying to match the demand, while also educating viewers about farm life in Colombia. With the virality, Cárdenas is also calling attention to poverty and harsh living conditions for farmers. As for her boys, they hope their videos keep going viral, so no child has to go to bed hungry again. Check out their YouTube channel here (the videos are in Spanish)!
Run, Corey, Run!
When distant runner Corey Cappelloni found out his 98-year-old grandmother had COVID-19, he ran 218 miles straight to see her. The trip took him 7 days, from Washington D.C to Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Run to Ruth: When she became sick, Cappelloni initially sent gifts or travel books to cheer up his grandmother. However, he wanted to do something more, so the idea of the run snowballed into something bigger. Cappelloni established his run to raise money for his grandmother’s nursing home. When he finally arrived at the nursing home, a (socially distant) crowd was waiting for him, and Cappelloni had raised enough money to buy iPads for all the nursing home residents so they could communicate with their families. Perhaps most importantly though, by the time Cappelloni arrived, his grandmother, Ruth Anders, had recovered from COVID-19, and they both shared a socially distant reunion.
Are We Out of the Woods?
Where’s the best place to build a new forest? Surprisingly, the answer may be alongside roads, schoolyards, and other small patches of soil! Across Europe, tiny but dense forests are popping up at odd locations restoring local biodiversity and addressing the climate crisis.
Background: These tiny forests are known as Miyazaki forests, named after the Japanese botanist Akira Miyazaki who created the forests’ design and planted thousands of the same forests across Asia. The forests then spread to Europe in 2015 when conservation groups like IVN Nature Education and Boom Forest began planting them across Belgium, France, and the Netherlands.
Numbers: By densely spacing plants together, these Miyazaki-style forests grow 10 times faster, are 30 times denser, and are up to 100 times more diverse than normally planted forests. Even better, the Miyazaki-style forests can store up to 40 times more carbon and restore their soil faster than other planted forests. Over hundreds of the forests have been planted so far and many more are underway across Europe.
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Shower Thoughts
Most people can eat the same breakfast weeks in a row, without complaining. But the same dinner for weeks just seems ridiculous.
Rain doesn’t make a sound until it hits something.
Sleeping Beauty must have been terrified the first time she went back to sleep.
The reason that people in sitcoms can afford everything is from all the money they save buying off-brand groceries.
The titles of Shakespeare’s plays are all spoilers for who dies.
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