# One Good Story Project > Original short documentaries about people, communities and organizations creating positive change, with a curated library of the books, films, podcasts, organizations and people behind that work. Story first. Every film is free to watch. ## Films - [(Grandma Sparky) She Survived Abuse to Start a Movement with a goal to reach 1 Billion kids.](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/story/grandma-sparky-she-survived-abuse-to-start-a-movement-with-a-goal-to-reach-1-billion-kids/): At 37 she nearly ended her life. At 83 she has honored hundreds of thousands of people with a blue ribbon that says "Who I Am Makes a Difference", and she is... - [A Second Chance at Life](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/story/a-second-chance-at-life/): Days before turning 27, Iman Aghay nearly bled to death in a hospital bed and promised himself that a second chance would not be wasted. He moved from Iran t... - [Can Wolfdogs Help Veterans Heal?](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/story/can-wolfdogs-help-veterans-heal/): Wolf dogs can't live in the wild and can't live in society, and the veterans who care for them at this sanctuary know exactly what that feels like. They both... - [Home](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/story/home/): Getting a family off the street only works if they stay housed. Humble Design furnishes their empty spaces with care and makes it a home, where the national... ## Articles & Guides - [Bringing Coho salmon back to the Mendocino Coast](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/articles/bringing-coho-salmon-back-to-the-mendocino-coast/): Around 30,000 adult coho returned to Mendocino Coast rivers in the 2024 to 2025 season, roughly ten times the decade average. Trout Unlimited and the Califor... - [Can you adopt wolfdogs?](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/articles/can-you-adopt-a-wolfdog/): In most U.S. states it is still legal to adopt a wolfdog, but about a dozen states and many cities ban or restrict ownership, and there are no rabies vaccine... - [How can animals help veterans with PTSD?](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/articles/how-do-animals-help-veterans-with-ptsd/): Animals help veterans with PTSD by healing the damage brought by trauma. Research backs it. Columbia University ran the first university-led trial of equine... - [How can schools help kids feel like they matter?](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/articles/how-can-a-school-help-kids-feel-they-matter/): The CDC says kids feel they matter at school when adults and peers in school care about them as individuals and about their learning. In 2021, 22.0 percent o... - [How Can Young People Make a Difference in Their Community?](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/articles/how-can-young-people-make-a-difference-in-their-community/): A young person can make a real difference in about a minute, simply by telling one person why they matter. In our film, an 83-year-old Helice "Grandma Sparky... - [How close is the average family to losing their home?](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/articles/how-close-is-the-average-family-to-losing-their-home/): More than a third of US adults would not cover a surprise $400 expense with cash or its equivalent, the Federal Reserve found in October 2025. In our film Ho... - [How do you find work when nobody will hire you?](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/articles/how-do-you-find-work-when-nobody-will-hire-you/): Iman Aghay moved to Canada in 2009 and applied for employment for months without getting one interview. So he took matters into his own hands and started a w... - [How do you get back into sports after losing a limb?](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/articles/how-do-you-get-back-into-sport-after-losing-a-limb/): Amy Purdy lost both legs below the knee at nineteen and was back on a snowboard that same season. Move United’s member organizations run adaptive sports prog... - [How do you restore a redwood forest?](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/articles/how-do-you-restore-a-redwood-forest/): Restoring a redwood forest involves thinning crowded young trees, removing old logging roads, rebuilding streams and bringing cultural burning back. Redwoods... - [How do you start over in a country where nobody knows you?](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/articles/how-do-you-start-over-in-a-country-where-nobody-knows-you-2/): Iman Aghay lost sixty per cent of his blood in a hospital bed ten days short of his twenty-seventh birthday, and decided in that bed to make a difference in... - [How does having a mentor change a kid’s life?](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/articles/how-does-having-a-mentor-change-a-kids-life/): A mentor changes a kid’s life mostly by lasting. Research points to a twelve-month minimum, weekly contact, and at least two hours of training before the fir... - [Rapid re-housing vs permanent supportive housing](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/articles/rapid-re-housing-or-permanent-supportive-housing-which-one-keeps-people-housed/): HUD caps rapid re-housing at 24 months with no disability test, while permanent supportive housing runs with no end date and requires one. - [What Does a Second Chance at Life Actually Teach You?](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/articles/what-do-people-do-with-a-second-chance-at-life/): People who nearly die keep reporting the same lessons. Being alive is not the same as living, waiting to feel ready is just fear, and a promise only lasts if... - [What happens when you tell someone they matter?](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/articles/what-happens-when-you-tell-someone-they-matter/): Helice Bridges gives people a blue ribbon that reads "Who I am makes a difference" and tells them out loud exactly how they do make a difference. She started... - [What is cultural burning?](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/articles/what-is-cultural-burning/): Yurok and Karuk families are putting fire back on the land to bring back hazel, elk and open oak woodland. California outlawed it in 1850 and outlawed broadc... - [What’s the difference between a Wolfdog versus a Wolf versus a Dog?](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/articles/wolfdog-vs-wolf-vs-dog-whats-the-difference/): A wolf is a wild animal, a dog is the domesticated species we bred from wolves over thousands of years, and a wolfdog is a hybrid with both in its recent anc... - [Why do families end up back on the street after they get housing?](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/articles/why-do-families-end-up-back-on-the-street-after-they-get-housing/): Getting keys to a place is not the end of homelessness. In San Diego a quarter of people placed into housing ended up back on the street. Among families whos... - [Why does furniture matter for families leaving homelessness?](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/articles/why-does-furniture-matter-for-families-leaving-homelessness/): Families leaving homelessness usually move into empty apartments. Researchers call this "furniture poverty," a home in which one cannot cook or sleep, and wh... ## Topic Guides - [Homelessness](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/hub/homelessness/): On a single night in January 2025, 745,652 people in the United States had no home of their own, and 266,320 of them were sleeping outside. In this section,... - [Mental Health Recovery](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/hub/mental-health-recovery/): Recovery is a process of change, and the working definition used across United States mental-health care makes treatment only half of it. The other half is u... - [Nature & Healing](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/hub/nature-healing/): Research keeps finding the same thing. Time in nature, and time with animals, measurably lowers stress and helps people recover from trauma. The stories and... - [Sport for Change](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/hub/sport-for-change/): Move United lists 257 member organizations across 45 states and serves more than 131,000 youth and adults a year. Adaptive sport depends on finding one of th... - [Storytellers for Good](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/hub/storytellers-for-good/): Storytelling is encoded in our DNA. People have been using stories as a way to pass down knowledge and traditions,to make sense of experiences, and inspire e... - [Wildlife & Biodiversity](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/hub/wildlife-biodiversity/): Wildlife and biodiversity keep whole ecosystems working, and our food systems and communities depend on them. Protecting them means preserving the many speci... - [Young Changemakers](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/hub/young-changemakers/): You don't have to wait to grow up to matter. Young people have started movements and pushed communities to be better. Communities are always much stronger wh... - [Youth Mentorship](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/hub/youth-mentorship/): A mentor can help a young person feel seen, supported, and more confident about the future. It just takes one adult who keeps showing up can make a lasting d... ## Documentaries - [Amy Purdy: Adaptive Action Sports](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/documentaries/amy-purdy-adaptive-action-sports/): Amy Purdy lost both legs below the knee to bacterial meningitis when she was nineteen. This short film from Good News Network follows her back onto a snowboa... - [Can you save a glacier with wool?](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/documentaries/saving-a-glacier-with-wool-is-hard/): THAW follows Swedish adventurer Oskar Kihlborg as he covers part of a glacier on Kebnekaise with a wool blanket to slow its melting. Filmmaker Robin Danehav... - [Celebrating Mendocino Coho Returns](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/documentaries/celebrating-mendocino-coho-returns/): Trout Unlimited made a short film about the best coho season the Mendocino Coast has recorded. Anna Halligan and Sarah Gallagher were filmed for it on the ba... - [Giants Rising](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/documentaries/giants-rising/): Giants Rising follows redwood researchers and Yurok cultural practitioners into the coast redwood forests of California, looking at how these trees survive f... - [Lead Me Home](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/documentaries/lead-me-home/): A short documentary, about people living unhoused in cities across the West Coast. - [Leave It Better](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/documentaries/leave-it-better/): REI's 2017 film follows Seth Orme and Abby Taylor as they ride bikes 4,700 miles across the United States, picking up trash as they go. They packed out more... - [The Call of the Swamp, Bird-Voiced Tree Frog](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/documentaries/the-call-of-the-swamp/): A fifteen-minute documentary about the bird-voiced treefrog, an amphibian that lives in the swamps of seven Illinois counties. It came out of a research proj... - [Wolves and Warriors](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/documentaries/wolves-and-warriors/): An Animal Planet docu-series following the Lockwood Animal Rescue Center's veteran crew as they rescue wolves and wolfdogs. Same sanctuary as our film. ## Books - [Audacity: Go from Wannabe Leader to the Leader Others Wannabe](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/books/audacity-go-from-wannabe-leader-to-the-leader-others-wannabe/): Katie Goar’s leadership book for women, written from her own path from housing insecurity to running Quadel. It comes out October 20, 2026 from Forbes Books. - [Birds of a Feather: A True Story of Hope and the Healing Power of Animals](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/books/birds-of-a-feather/): The true story of Serenity Park, a sanctuary where veterans with PTSD care for rescued parrots and both begin to heal, told by Lorin Lindner, the psychologis... - [Bounce Forward: 21 Tools to Live a Life Beyond Limits](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/books/bounce-forward-21-tools-to-live-a-life-beyond-limits/): Amy Purdy’s second book, published in April 2026. Where her memoir told the story, this one sets twenty-one practices she uses for getting through a setback... - [Braiding Sweetgrass](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/books/braiding-sweetgrass/): Robin Wall Kimmerer, a botanist and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, writes about what plants can teach us when science and Indigenous knowl... - [Chicken Soup for the Soul](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/books/chicken-soup-for-the-soul/): The 1993 anthology that carried Grandma Sparky's blue-ribbon story to readers worldwide, the one about a father whose ribbon reached his son in time. - [Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/books/evicted-poverty-and-profit-in-the-american-city/): A sociologist follows eight families as they lose their homes, and shows how eviction deepens the poverty that drives it. - [NOLS Soft Paths](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/books/nols-soft-paths/): A 2011 NOLS Library book on enjoying wild places with minimum impact, built around Leave No Trace skills and ethics. It runs 224 pages from Stackpole Books. - [On My Own Two Feet: From Losing My Legs to Learning the Dance of Life](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/books/on-my-own-two-feet-from-losing-my-legs-to-learning-the-dance-of-life/): Amy Purdy’s memoir, published this New York Times bestseller at the end of 2014. It was written with Michelle Burford. It is a tale of her overcoming multipl... - [The Game Changer Vol. 8: Inspirational Stories That Changed Lives](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/books/the-game-changer-vol-8/): The eighth Game Changer collection, twenty-seven authors, led by Iman Aghay, each telling the turning point that changed their life. - [The Once and Future Forest: California’s Iconic Redwoods](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/books/the-once-and-future-forest-californias-iconic-redwoods/): The Once and Future Forest collects five commissioned essays on California's redwoods, published by Heyday for Save the Redwoods League's hundredth anniversary. - [The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/books/the-wild-trees-a-story-of-passion-and-daring/): The Wild Trees is the book that tells how Steve Sillett, Marie Antoine and a handful of others first climbed into the redwood canopy and found an ecosystem s... - [Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/books/undammed-freeing-rivers-and-bringing-communities-to-life/): Tara Lohan traces the dam removal movement and what happens to a river once the concrete is gone. Island Press published Undammed on October 14, 2025, with t... - [Wading Right In: Discovering the Nature of Wetlands](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/books/wading-right-in-discovering-the-nature-of-wetlands/): A 2019 book about wetlands, written for readers with no science background. It runs to 264 pages from the University of Chicago Press. - [Who I Am Makes a Difference](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/books/who-i-am-makes-a-difference/): Helice Bridges, the woman behind the blue ribbon in our film SPARKY, collects true stories of people whose lives changed when someone told them, out loud, th... ## Podcasts - [1 Girl Revolution](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/podcasts/1-girl-revolution/): A storytelling podcast whose episode 61 is a full conversation with Treger Strasberg about founding Humble Design. - [Bouncing Forward with Amy Purdy](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/podcasts/bouncing-forward-with-amy-purdy/): Amy Purdy’s interview show about using setbacks as a way forward. Sixty episodes went out between 2020 and April 2022 and then it stopped. The archive is sti... - [ChangeMakers with Katie Goar](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/podcasts/changemakers-with-katie-goar/): A Forbes Books podcast featuring Katie Goar interviewing people working on affordable housing in America. Episode 75 is Treger Strasberg telling the Humble D... - [Good News Gurus](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/podcasts/good-news-gurus/): The podcast from the Good News Network, hosted by Geri Weis-Corbley and Anthony Samadani. A hundred episodes went out between 2020 and February 2025, and not... - [Great.com Talks With](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/podcasts/great-com-talks-with/): A nonprofit-interview podcast whose episode #402 profiles the Lockwood Animal Rescue Center through a conversation with founder Lorin Lindner. - [Our Hen House](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/podcasts/our-hen-house/): An animal-advocacy podcast whose episode 490 is a long conversation with Lorin Lindner about trauma, parrots, veterans, and the sanctuary work in our film. - [Respark Your Life](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/podcasts/respark-your-life/): A purpose-focused podcast whose episode 85 is a full conversation with Grandma Sparky about the blue ribbon and the billion-person mission. - [Smart Business Revolution](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/podcasts/smart-business-revolution/): John Corcoran's interview show. Its episode "Learning from Failures and Setbacks" has Iman Aghay telling the film's story in longer form, including his fathe... - [The Barbless Podcast Channel](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/podcasts/the-barbless-podcast-channel/): Anna Halligan spent an hour and eight minutes on this show in December 2019, working through the restoration tactics used to bring coho habitat back. - [The Doggy Dan Podcast Show](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/podcasts/doggy-dan-podcast-show/): A dog-training podcast whose Wolves and Warriors episode has the founders of the film's sanctuary explaining how veteran-and-wolf pairing actually works. - [Zero to Travel](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/podcasts/zero-to-travel/): Zero to Travel is Jason Moore’s long-running podcast about building a life around travel, from first trips to full nomad years. We list it for the August 202... ## Organizations - [](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/organizations/leave-no-trace-center-for-outdoor-ethics/): Leave No Trace is a nonprofit in Boulder, Colorado, that teaches seven principles for low-impact time outdoors. It became an independent nonprofit in 1994. - [Adaptive Action Sports](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/organizations/adaptive-action-sports/): The nonprofit Amy Purdy and Daniel Gale started in 2005 so that people with permanent physical disabilities could get into action sports. Winter snowboarding... - [Blue Ribbons Worldwide](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/organizations/blue-ribbons-worldwide/): The organization behind the blue ribbon in our film, with a one-minute honoring ceremony, school programs, and a mission to reach one billion people. - [California Department of Fish and Wildlife](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/organizations/california-department-of-fish-and-wildlife/): The monitoring teams that count returning coho across roughly 500 miles of Mendocino Coast habitat are led by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. - [Challenged Athletes Foundation](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/organizations/challenged-athletes-foundation/): The Challenged Athletes Foundation gives grants that pay for adaptive sports equipment, training, coaching, competition and travel. It awarded 4,033 grants r... - [Cultural Fire Management Council](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/organizations/cultural-fire-management-council/): The Cultural Fire Management Council exists to make Yurok cultural burning practical again, on the grounds that deliberate fire produces a healthier forest a... - [Eviction Lab](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/organizations/eviction-lab/): The research lab Matthew Desmond founded at Princeton in 2017. It built the first national database of American evictions and makes the numbers public so any... - [Humble Design](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/organizations/humble-design/): The nonprofit in our film. It furnishes empty homes for families leaving homelessness, and about 99% of those families are still housed a year later. - [Lockwood Animal Rescue Center](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/organizations/lockwood-animal-rescue-center/): A Frazier Park, California sanctuary where combat veterans recovering from PTSD care for rescued wolves and wolfdogs. Home of the Warriors and Wolves program. - [Mendocino Land Trust](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/organizations/mendocino-land-trust/): Mendocino Land Trust conserves habitat and working lands on the Mendocino coast, and builds the trails and coastal access that let people reach them. - [Move United](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/organizations/move-united/): Move United is a network of community adaptive sports organizations in the United States. It has 257 member organizations across 45 states and was establishe... - [National Alliance to End Homelessness](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/organizations/national-alliance-to-end-homelessness/): The non-partisan nonprofit that sets the numbers communities measure rapid re-housing against, including the benchmark that at least 85 percent of households... - [National Great Rivers Research and Education Center](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/organizations/national-great-rivers-research-and-education-center/): A freshwater research and education center in Illinois whose Wetlands Collaborative made The Call of the Swamp with Route 3 Films in 2023. Its work runs from... - [New Directions for Veterans](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/organizations/new-directions-for-veterans/): A Los Angeles nonprofit that has housed and rehabilitated veterans since 1992, and the place where the film's Stan McDonald met Dr. Lorin Lindner. - [Pacific Forest Trust](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/organizations/pacific-forest-trust/): Pacific Forest Trust works with private landowners to keep American forests standing and well managed, and reports more than 270,000 acres conserved since 1993. - [Route 3 Films](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/organizations/route-3-films/): A video production company based in St. Louis that filmed The Call of the Swamp with the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center in 2023 among ot... - [Save the Redwoods League](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/organizations/save-the-redwoods-league/): Save the Redwoods League protects and restores California’s coast redwood and giant sequoia forests, and reports more than 220,000 acres protected since 1918. - [Sempervirens Fund](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/organizations/sempervirens-fund/): Sempervirens Fund protects the coast redwood forests of the Santa Cruz Mountains, reports 36,000 acres saved and six state parks created, and traces its orig... - [So Every BODY Can Move](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/organizations/so-every-body-can-move/): So Every BODY Can Move is a national policy and advocacy effort launched in 2022 by AOPA, NAAOP, AAOP and the Amputee Coalition. It works for state legislati... - [The Furniture Bank Network](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/organizations/the-furniture-bank-network/): A network of local furniture banks that set up homes for people leaving homelessness, using donated furniture. - [Trout Unlimited](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/organizations/trout-unlimited/): Anna Halligan directs Trout Unlimited's North Coast Coho Project, and she is one of the two people filmed for Celebrating Mendocino Coho Returns. - [Vancouver Business Network](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/organizations/vancouver-business-network/): The business community Iman Aghay founded in 2009 as a broke new immigrant, now one of Vancouver's largest entrepreneur networks, with more than 16,000 members. - [Yurok Tribe](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/organizations/yurok-tribe/): The Yurok Tribe is the largest Tribe in California, with more than 5,000 enrolled members on and around the Klamath River in northern California, and its maj... ## Change Makers - [Abby Taylor](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/abby-taylor/): Abby Taylor rode 4,700 miles across the United States with Seth Orme in 2017, picking up trash for Packing It Out. Her longest ride to date had been a 50K. - [Allyson Carroll](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/allyson-carroll/): Allyson Carroll reads redwood tree rings as a historical record, dating everything from a tree’s growth to the fires and earthquakes it lived through. - [Amy Purdy](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/amy-purdy/): The Paralympic snowboarder who lost both legs to bacterial meningitis at nineteen and co-founded Adaptive Action Sports so that other people with physical di... - [Ann Oliva](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/ann-oliva/): Ann Oliva built rapid re-housing at HUD, and now leads the group that grades whether it works. - [Anna Halligan](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/anna-halligan/): Anna Halligan directs the North Coast Coho Project, the Trout Unlimited program that restores coho and steelhead habitat on California's north coast. - [Barry McCovey Jr.](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/barry-mccovey-jr/): Barry McCovey Jr. directs Yurok Tribal Fisheries, the department doing the science behind the restoration of the Klamath River and the salmon runs that depen... - [Colin Arisman](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/colin-arisman/): Colin Arisman is an Alaska documentary director and the founder of Wild Confluence. His films include REI's 2017 film Leave It Better and School of Fish, a B... - [Daniel Gale](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/daniel-gale/): Daniel Gale is the co-founder and executive director of Adaptive Action Sports, he spends his time building the competitions adaptive athletes need in order... - [Emily Burns](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/emily-burns/): Emily Burns led the science that mapped the redwood genome at Save the Redwoods League, and now directs conservation programs for Sky Island Alliance in Ariz... - [Helice “Grandma Sparky” Bridges](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/helice-grandma-sparky-bridges/): The 82-year-old founder of the blue ribbon movement in our film, who turned surviving her darkest year into a one-minute ceremony for telling people they mat... - [Iman Aghay](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/iman-aghay/): He was on his deathbed days before turning 27. Given a second chance, Iman Aghay moved from Iran to Canada with no job and little English, built the Vancouve... - [Jack Canfield](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/jack-canfield/): The Chicken Soup for the Soul co-creator who appears in our film. He met Sparky in 1984 and published the blue-ribbon story that carried her ceremony around... - [Jessica Mohlman](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/jessica-mohlman/): The wildlife ecologist who led the bird-voiced treefrog research behind The Call of the Swamp. She co-wrote the 2021 field report in Outdoor Illinois Journal... - [John Crawford](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/john-crawford/): Principal Scientist and Terrestrial Wildlife Ecologist at the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center. He runs its wildlife ecology program and m... - [Katie Goar](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/katie-goar/): Katie Goar leads Quadel, a national affordable housing services firm, and hosts ChangeMakers, the podcast where Treger Strasberg tells the Humble Design stor... - [Laurie A. Wayburn](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/laurie-a-wayburn/): Laurie A. Wayburn co-founded Pacific Forest Trust and runs it, building the financial case for private landowners to keep a forest standing as a forest. - [Leonel Arguello](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/leonel-arguello/): Leonel Arguello has spent his whole career at Redwood National and State Parks, from starting as the grass guy to running the restoration work that stitches... - [Lisa Landers](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/lisa-landers/): Lisa Landers is the documentary producer and director behind Giants Rising, with more than twenty years of work for networks and museums including National G... - [Lorin Lindner](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/lorin-lindner/): The clinical psychologist behind Serenity Park and the Lockwood Animal Rescue Center, whose reciprocal-recovery model pairs veterans with rescued animals. - [Margo Robbins](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/margo-robbins/): Margo Robbins runs the Cultural Fire Management Council, which is putting Yurok cultural burning back to work on Yurok reservation and ancestral land. - [Marie E. Antoine](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/marie-e-antoine/): Marie E. Antoine is a Cal Poly Humboldt research associate who studies the living world inside the redwood canopy, and who is testing how to bring it back to... - [Matthew Desmond](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/matthew-desmond/): Matthew Desmond is the Princeton sociologist who wrote Evicted, the Pulitzer-winning book about families losing their homes. He also runs the Eviction Lab, w... - [Oskar Kihlborg](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/oskar-kihlborg/): Oskar Kihlborg became the first Swede to summit Mount Everest in 1990. Decades later he took on a different mountain problem, covering glacier ice with wool... - [Paul Piff](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/paul-piff/): Paul Piff is the UC Irvine social psychologist who studies awe, and whose work is the reason Giants Rising can connect a very large tree to how people treat... - [Robin Danehav](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/robin-danehav/): Robin Danehav is a Stockholm-based documentary filmmaker who walked away from a corporate production career in 2022, pay cut included, to make films about pe... - [Robin Wall Kimmerer](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/robin-wall-kimmerer/): Robin Wall Kimmerer is a Potawatomi botanist who teaches plant ecology at SUNY and founded the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. Her book Braidi... - [Rosie Clayburn Katri](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/rosie-clayburn-katri/): Rosie Clayburn Katri is the Yurok Tribal Heritage Preservation Officer, with signatory authority over land disturbing activity across Yurok ancestral territo... - [Sarah Bird](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/sarah-bird/): Artist Sarah Bird works with trees as material and method, and is a Scholar-Artist Fellow at Justus Liebig University in Germany. - [Sarah Gallagher](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/sarah-gallagher/): Sarah Gallagher was one of two people Trout Unlimited put on camera when the Mendocino coho came back in record numbers. Her department leads the survey team... - [Seth Orme](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/seth-orme/): Seth Orme founded Packing It Out, which cleaned up the Appalachian Trail in 2015, the Pacific Crest Trail in 2016 and roads from Georgia to Seattle in 2017.... - [Stephen C. Sillett](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/stephen-c-sillett/): Stephen C. Sillett is the Cal Poly Humboldt professor who climbs the world’s tallest trees to study them, and who holds the university’s Kenneth L. Fisher Ch... - [Todd Dawson](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/todd-dawson/): Todd Dawson is the UC Berkeley biologist who studies how plants and their environment act on each other, and who directs the university’s Center for Stable I... - [Treger Strasberg](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/treger-strasberg/): The founder of Humble Design, whose voice carries our film. She turned furnishing one friend's empty house into an organization that keeps families housed. - [Zane Moore](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/changemakers/zane-moore/): Zane Moore earned his UC Davis doctorate studying why redwoods live as long as they do, and his line about awe is the one the film puts on its own front page. ## Companies - [Good News Network](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/companies/good-news-network/): A positive news outlet running since 1997, with an archive of 21,000 stories. It was founded because mainstream media was failing to report the good news, an... - [Impact Docs](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/companies/impact-docs/): Impact Docs is Robin Danehav's documentary studio in Stockholm. It makes films with brands and organizations working on social and environmental change, buil... - [Lightbeam](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/companies/lightbeam/): The studio that produced the Amy Purdy film for Good News Network. It says its own mission is to close the empathy gap, and it makes short documentaries abou... - [Quadel](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/companies/quadel/): Quadel is the affordable housing consulting firm Katie Goar leads. It has helped public housing agencies run their programs since 1975. - [REI](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/beyond/companies/rei/): REI is a consumer co-operative founded in 1938 that now has more than 25 million members. It presented the 2017 film Leave It Better and sponsored the ride t... ## Optional - [About One Good Story Project](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/about/): who makes these films and why. - [Be Part of the Story](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/sponsor/): how to sponsor a film or partner with the project. - [XML sitemap](https://onegoodstoryproject.com/sitemap_index.xml): every indexable URL on the site. Generated from published content on 2026-10-25. New entries appear automatically.