Category Archives: Making the World a Better Place

People and Trash Making Beautiful Music Together

Posted on December 8, 2012 by russtowne

Someone is taking trash and making it into musical instruments that poor children are using to play beautiful music together. Another example where creative and caring people are creating solutions that are making the world a better place for everyone. … Continue reading →

Posted in Creativity, Making the World a Better Place, Music | Tagged beautiful, Caring, kindness, making the world a better place, music, musical, musical instruments, people, trash | 2 Comments

The Most Successful Of All

Posted on December 1, 2012 by russtowne

“The planet does not need more successful people. The planet needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds, –Dalai Lama From my perspective, the world would be even better off if the peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Making the World a Better Place, Observations, Success | Tagged better, Dalai Lama, fervent hope, healers, Hope, kinds, lovers, making, making the world a better place, peacemakers, people, place, restorers, storytellers, successful, world | 4 Comments

Kindness In Uniform

Posted on November 29, 2012 by russtowne

(Source: Yahoo News) Here are snippets from the article: A photo of a New York City police officer kneeling down to give a barefoot homeless man in Times Square a pair of boots on a cold November night is melting … Continue reading →

Posted in Compassion, Kindness, Making the World a Better Place, Stories That Touched Me | Tagged barefoot, hearts, homelss man, kindness, Lawrence DePrimo, new boots, NYPD, police officer | 6 Comments

A Great First Step

Posted on November 23, 2012 by russtowne

I admire the creativity of the person who created the “Coexist” graphic which is spelled out using several religious symbols. It is clever and important message. Coexisting is a great first step toward global peace. And, I believe that humanity … Continue reading →

Posted in Fairness, Love, Making the World a Better Place, Peace | Tagged coexist, fairness, forgive, global, humanity, Love, peace, religious, share, support, world | 6 Comments

Wherever There Is Love

Posted on November 20, 2012 by russtowne

A dear aunt forwarded the story below to me. I love it and wanted to share it with you. Russ — We don’t know who replied to a letter sent by a little girl, but there is a beautiful soul … Continue reading →

Posted in Children, Dealing with Pain & Grief, Dogs & Other Wonderful Creatures, Kindness, Love, Making the World a Better Place, Stories That Touched Me | Tagged Abbey, aunt, book, daughter, dead letter, died, Dog, God, Love, loved, Meredith, mom, Mother, Mr. Rogers', pet, pets, post office, share | 35 Comments

This Kid Is Going Places and Bringing the World with Him

Posted on November 19, 2012 by russtowne

Meet Kelvin Doe, a 15-year-old from Sierra Leone, who took scraps from garbage cans and created his own radio transmitter to create his community’s first radio station. He broadcasts daily, even the community only gets electricity about once per week. … Continue reading →

Posted in Creativity, Dreams, Following Your Passion, Ingenuity, Inspiring, Making the World a Better Place, Stories That Touched Me, Youth | Tagged "It's a movement", cans, garbage, inspiring, Kelvin Doe, MIT, radio station, radio transmitter, scraps, Sierra Leone, youtube | 6 Comments

Blessed Day

Posted on November 18, 2012 by russtowne

I dream of the blessed day when humanity awakens from its terrible nightmare and begins to fight for peace with as much ferocity, tenacity, and heroism as we’ve fought our wars. –Russ Towne

Posted in Breakthroughs, Courage, Dreams, Growth/Learning, Hope, Making the World a Better Place, Optimism, Peace, Poetry I Wrote, Words or Quotes I Believe I Coined but please let me know if you heard them earlier elsewhere | Tagged dream, ferocity, fight, fight for, for, fought, heroism, humanity, nightmare, peace, tenacity, wars, world | 10 Comments

I LOVE This–And The Potential is HUGE

Posted on November 2, 2012 by russtowne

Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction http://dvice.com/archives/2012/10/ethiopian-kids.php What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they’ll start teaching themselves … Continue reading →

Posted in Breakthroughs, Children, Creativity, Education, Ingenuity, Inspiring, Making the World a Better Place, Potential, Stories That Touched Me | Tagged children, computer, computers, create, creativity, education, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, experi ment, kids, learning, MIT, MIT Technology, MIT Technology Review's EmTech conference, Motorola, Nicholas Negroponte, OLCPs, tablet, tablets, Zoom | 3 Comments

Kindness Multiplied

Posted on October 25, 2012 by russtowne

Some neighborhood stores do amazing things for their community. In the clip linked below, a community returns the favor with a surprise cash mob. http://screen.yahoo.com/episode-5-cash-mob-surprise-30909947.html Russ

Posted in Generosity, Making the World a Better Place, Stories That Touched Me | Tagged Angela, Baby Daze Boutique, CA, cash, cash mob, flash mob, generosity, kindness, Kit, mob, Santa Monica, store, Yahoo, Yahoo News | Leave a comment

A Political Rant in A Self-Described Partisan Politics-Free Zone

Posted on October 24, 2012 by russtowne

I have dear friends from all over the political spectrum. One of the things that saddens me about political rancor is comments along the lines of “They” want things that are very different than “We” do, and that the differences … Continue reading →