How We Need A Storytelling Moonshot To Save The World, 26 Inspiring Nonprofit Leaders for 2023 and More!

Dear friends,

Stories are the engine that powers the world. And what has become painfully clear is that humanity needs a new story. The story of how we fixed the problems of our time - like climate change.

We need a storytelling mobilization of the likes the world has never seen.

We need the finest storytellers of our age creating bold and aspirational visions of a life here on this planet that is abundant, just and fair.

We need a story equivalent of the Manhattan Project, to create a Moonshot of an idea. Only it’s an Earthshot: a last-chance, no-holds barred effort to help us see that this fragile planet that we live in is the only rocket ship we really need to survive.

Check out my recent talk at the Environmental Media Association, on how stories can help save the world.

Enjoy this week’s stories that introduce you to the promising non-profit leaders that will impact the world in 2023, the world’s largest zero-emissions truck or new incredible home fragrance that promotes awareness about biodiversity loss and more.

Be kind, be good and look after each other,

Afdhel and Bobby?

TOP STORIES THIS WEEK

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Storytelling For Tomorrow’s Curriculum:?Hosted by a 11-year-old rising star broadcast journalist Pepper Persley,?A Beautiful Culture?is a student engagement platform that uses memorabilia to tell aspirational yet relatable stories to young learners. The platform will launch as a free Black History Month initiative in February 2023 and brings an opportunity for schools to better engage with students while presenting diverse culture in an educational context.?

26 Inspiring Nonprofit Leaders Who Will Impact the World in 2023:?Nonprofit leaders within the nonprofit sector play a huge role in the economy, providing essential services that boost economic activity and generate economic growth. In the fourth quarter of 2021, nonprofits contributed $1.4 trillion to the U.S. economy!?These nonprofit leaders?profiled, exhibit the essential attributes of an impactful nonprofit leader, and their organizations will undoubtedly impact the world in 2023.

The Worlds’ Largest Zero-Emissions Truck:?Up until now, one of these trucks emits as much pollution in a year as 700 cars. A new retrofit replaces the diesel with a battery and hydrogen fuel cells and can shrink a truck’s emissions to zero.?First Mode, an engineering startup, has spent the last several months testing a prototype with the mining giant Anglo American, which now plans to roll out the technology in hundreds of other vehicles.

Ideas We Love:?Where do abandoned bicycles go? In a largely unseen system, abandoned bikes are repaired and shipped to people across the US — and around the world — who can use them to travel to school or work. Since its inception in 1999, the amazing community of?Working Bikes?volunteers, staff, partners, and supporters have enabled new life for 100,000 bicycles across the globe.?

What Does Biodiversity Loss Smell Like??Italian supermarket Italmark is offering customers a whiff with its new home fragrance that spotlights biodiversity loss on Monte Baldo due to climate change. To highlight that danger, Italmark recreated the scent of over 20 of Monte Baldo's flowers and bottled it as?Extinction.?

The Movie Of The Week:?In a city with over eight million people, New York is a home for many who love and cherish the city. Unfortunately, due to systemic issues like gentrification and homelessness, the love for the city might not be reciprocated back. A Thousand and One?(which just?won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize)?follows Inez, a mother who kidnaps her 6-year-old son from the foster-care system after she was living from shelter to shelter. As her son grows into a teenager, their family struggles to hide their secret in a gentrifying New York City.?

Food Waste On The Menu:?At this San Francisco restaurant, everything on the menu is made from trash.?Shuggie’s Trash Pie?builds its entire menu around food waste and changes it frequently. That’s because the ingredients depend in part on what farmers plan to throw out on any given day: The restaurant’s mission is to fight food waste.?

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“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

—?Henry David Thoreau