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Spending several months working on an issue of Positive News magazine, I become very aware of how quickly the news cycle moves on. Sometimes, stories that felt urgent when they’re commissioned can, if they’re not carefully judged, feel less important by the time they reach you readers.
But as I put together this issue, which comes out this week, the opposite kept happening. The longer I spent with the stories that make up our cover feature, the more relevant they seemed. Unlike much of what’s in the mainstream news, they hold their worth no matter what happens next week, next month or even next year.
The people you’ll meet within this issue are playing a much longer game. They’re leading very diverse endeavours: from forests to furniture, clocks to concrete, and sea protection to scientific research. But the thread that connects them is a simple but surprisingly radical idea: that some things are worth doing for people we may never meet.
