In New York Harbor, oysters once shaped the shoreline, filtered the water, and anchored an entire ecosystem before overharvesting, dredging, and pollution nearly erased them. This episode of Impactually explores how the Billion Oyster Project and SCAPE are helping New York rethink coastal resilience through restoration, design, and education throughout the city’s waterways. From Governors Island to waterways…
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In Kitsap County, Washington — home to one of the largest veteran populations in America — nearly one in five adults has worn a uniform. Yet veterans make up roughly 12 percent of the county’s homeless population, caught between rising housing costs and incomes that simply can’t keep pace. In a place where a studio…
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When seven-year-old Warren Carlyle slipped away from his classmates on a field trip and locked eyes with an octopus, he had no idea that moment would change his life—or the way thousands of people see the ocean. Diagnosed with ADHD and autism, Warren grew up chasing information about octopuses, only to find almost nothing written…
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For one man during COVID, his local park offered a virus-safe place to share time and camaraderie with others where few places existed. Armed with a frisbee and a few new friends, he found a calling to serve his diverse community in need of good clean (and green) fun. It’s called Target and our story starts here.
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Maria Yuan learned the meaning of democratic civic engagement by witnessing the journey of her immigrant family and how they embraced their duties as new American citizens. Her impact was to start Issuevoter.org – a non-profit civic engagement tool meant to all Americans. For another, Emma Welsh-Huggins, it was a college experience: a broad range…
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This is a true, ongoing story of David versus Goliath. Of a tiny, 100-year-old Baptist church that – like David, stands alone in stark contrast to its neighbors – a towering apartment building to one side and a parking lot and open construction site to the other where church elders decry that well-funded developers are…
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Think Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, Stranger Things, Harry Potter. Dungeons and Dragons is a game of where friends as fictional characters embark on imaginary adventures within a fantasy setting. Each game is a quest. Each quest has a challenge. Ultimately, players must rely on one another to survive. But what happens when one…
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