GreaterGood The Virtual Exploration Society Virtual Exploration Society Welcome to the Virtual Exploration Society. Go over to the bar and get a root beer, then have a seat by the fire. Listen while the older members recount exciting true stories of explorers who have risked life and limb in the persuit of knowledge. The Incredible Automobile Race of 1907- In 1907 eleven men set out to take the newly born automobile on an adventure across two continents and over deserts and through swamps. Crossing the Atlantic By Air - On July 25th, 1909, Louis Bleriot stunned the world by using an airplane to cross the English Channel. Roy Chapman Andrews - Was this adventurer/scientist the model for Hollywood's Indiana Jones? Colonel Percy Fawcett - He charted the wilderness of South America, but then disappeared without a trace. To Catch a Dragon - Follow the Burdan Expedition to remote and dangerous Komodo Island. Matthew Henson: Arctic Explorer - Henson and Peary defy cold death in a race to the North Pole. Leonid A.
Click To Give @ The Rainforest Site Hokey Smoke, A Flying Squirrel! The amazing flying squirrel doesn't need wings to soar. This aerodynamic rodent has flexible membranes connecting its front and hind legs that let it glide through the air with ease. The Mule Deer Whisperer Biologist Joe Hutto spent seven years bonding with a herd of mule deer, and now they consider him part of the family. Running on Water The basilisk lizard has one of the most unique abilities in all of the Amazon. Hatching Snowy Owls A young snowy owl pair has nested on the open tundra. The White Lions: The Cubs at Play In South Africa’s Kruger National Park, a small pride of white lions has their hands full with new cubs. Today's clicks have funded the value of 93,377.4 square feet of land.* Thank you! When you click, we display ads from our site sponsors. 100% of the money from these advertisers goes to our charity partners, who fund programs to protect rainforest habitat for wildlife. *Click total updates hourly. View more results
This is your most important decision You have about 80,000 hours in your career: 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year, for 40 years. This makes your choice of career the most important ethical decision of your life. From adulthood, you’ll spend almost half your waking hours on your career — more than the time you’ll spend eating, on hobbies, and watching Netflix put together. This means if you can increase the positive impact of those hours just a little, it will probably have a bigger impact than changes to any other parts of your life. And we’re going to show that — if you have the privilege to have options — you can probably increase the impact of your career not just by a little, but by a huge amount. Some of the paths open to you probably do vastly more for the world than others, but they’re probably not the ones you’re currently focusing on. Our generation faces issues of historical importance, and you can help tackle them. So how did we end up thinking this? Understanding and applying these ideas takes time. Read now
Volunteer Abroad with Cross-Cultural Solutions An 18th Century Quote Defines Today's Truth “Don’t be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there’s no poverty to be seen because the poverty’s been hidden. Even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much, that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you. Don’t be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there’s no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they’ll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces.” Link to original post
Learning to Give - Teachers Moments of Service Lesson Plans Themed teaching resources to support calendar events. Includes lesson plans, toolkits, project ideas, and more. Toolkits Guides designed for service coaches to support teachers and volunteers with resources, ideas, tips, and stories. Webinars Monthly webinars designed to support leaders of youth in service. Project of the Month Each month, we post a new, simple and innovative service project for youth to do by themselves or with their family, school, or club. Resolutions for a Life Worth Living: Attainable Aspirations Inspired by Great Humans of the Past – The Marginalian If we abide by the common definition of philosophy as the love of wisdom, and if Montaigne was right — he was — that philosophy is the art of learning to die, then living wisely is the art of learning how you will wish to have lived. A kind of resolution in reverse. This is where the wisdom of lives that have already been lived can be of immense aid — a source of forward-facing resolutions, borrowed from people who have long died, having lived, by any reasonable standard, honorable and generous lives, lives of beauty and substance, irradiated by ideas that have endured across the epochs to make other lives more livable. Here are ten such ideas (after many more highlighted in years past) that make for life-expanding resolutions, and an extra eleventh as an overarching ethos. We will lose everything we love, including our lives — so we might as well love without fear, for to fear a certainty is wasted energy that syphons life of aliveness. Love your hands!
Fund Science and Explore the World with Renowned Researchers - Petridish.org Joan Didion on Self-Respect – The Marginalian The dismal fact is that self-respect has nothing to do with the approval of others — who are, after all, deceived easily enough; has nothing to do with reputation, which, as Rhett Butler told Scarlett O’Hara, is something people with courage can do without.To do without self-respect, on the other hand, is to be an unwilling audience of one to an interminable documentary that deals with one’s failings, both real and imagined, with fresh footage spliced in for every screening. There’s the glass you broke in anger, there’s the hurt on X’s face; watch now, this next scene, the night Y came back from Houston, see how you muff this one. To live without self-respect is to lie awake some night, beyond the reach of warm milk, the Phenobarbital, and the sleeping hand on the coverlet, counting up the sins of commissions and omission, the trusts betrayed, the promises subtly broken, the gifts irrevocably wasted through sloth or cowardice, or carelessness.
Wall of Silence - Women's Aid This November Avon UK and GLAMOUR magazine teamed up to launch the Wall Of Silence, a campaign created by GLAMOUR reader Charli Bailey who took up the magazine's challenge to its readers to create a campaign for Women's Aid and Refuge. The Wall Of Silence is made up of real people who have posted "shhh" selfies tagged #wallofsilence on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook or uploaded them directly to the site. It has also been supported by some of Women's Aid's celebrity supporters, including Ambassadors Jahmene Douglas and Charlie Webster (below). "As a survivor myself, I know how hard it is to open up," says creator Charli. Between November 3 and December 10, Avon will donate £1 to Women's Aid and Refuge for every brick (proceeds split between Refuge and Women's Aid). Avon UK launched its Speak Out against Domestic Violence campaign in 2009 and has raised more than £1.5 million for charity partners Refuge and Women’s Aid.
Teaching kids to struggle #GrowthMindset Why do kids need to learn to struggle? As adults, we all know the most rewarding experiences in life often involve significant struggle and sacrifice at some stage. Personally, the greatest joys in my life have all come with some form of struggle… Being married. We are very happily married, but that doesn’t mean we are always very happy with one another. Being a parent. Staying healthy. Being a teacher. Starting an Edtech company. Without the ability to struggle life becomes very limited. A fear of struggling will stop students from trying something they are not 100% certain they will succeed at with ease. The list of things we know we can all succeed at in the adult world probably consists of 1) breathing 2) eating chocolate 3) sitting on the couch watching The Bachelorette. Don’t get me wrong, I love The Bachelorette, but I hope people aren’t talking about it at my funeral. So how do we help our students not just cope with struggle, but to thrive with it? Then the fun begins. How to make it: