by | Mar 21, 2023 | Inspiration-GNN
San Quentin State Penitentiary, one of the most notorious and harsh prisons in the US, is the stage for a radical new method of treating the incarcerated population; new for America that is. That’s because SQ has adopted Scandinavian methods of rehabilitation that aim...
by | Mar 20, 2023 | Inspiration-GNN
Jay Branson, a self-taught architect, started building a round barn in rural Oklahoma to process his grief. Its beauty draws strangers off the highway in Oklahoma, and a gentle kind of obsession mixed with down-home prairie demeanor saw the barn turn into something...
by | Mar 18, 2023 | Inspiration-GNN
It took 75 years but, two sisters who were placed up for adoption at the end of World War II were finally reunited. Annie Ijpelaar and Sheila Anne Fry, both in their late 70s, have Sheila’s daughter-in-law and Anne’s son to thank for the reunion, after they took it...
by | Mar 16, 2023 | Inspiration-GNN
A group of friends who took a London double-decker bus 40,000 miles around the Americas have reunited 50 years later at the release of a travelogue of their adventure. Over a hard country cider, the remaining crew members reminisced about how the idea first came to...
by | Mar 16, 2023 | Inspiration-GNN
A refrigerator-sized data center is being used as an innovative solution to pool heating, saving thousands in fuel costs in England. The “digital boiler” was designed and implemented by Mark Bjornsgaard, founder of the start-up Deep Green, which charges clients to use...
by | Mar 13, 2023 | Inspiration-GNN
An English woman has found her calling and recycled more than 2,000 pounds of trash after setting up a drop-off point in her garden shed for people to leave items that garbage men don’t collect. Liz Pinfield-Wells built the DIY recycling center following the birth of...
