[NowThis' Chelsea Frisbie] People everywhere are dedicating their time and effort
to impacting major global issues,
like the housing crisis, climate change, and cultural preservation.
As a reminder that no contribution is too small,
here's a recap of some of the people NowThis spoke to in 2022
who took it upon themselves to be the change they wanted to see in the world.
The most amount of trees I planted in 24 hours was 23,060 trees.
So basically almost a thousand trees an hour.
This is a tree I planted like a month ago,
and this is what it looked like when I planted it.
I've always just enjoyed planting trees,
and the world record was kind of a goal of mine.
And I thought that I'd be done after that, and I would, like, not enjoy planting as much,
but I still enjoy it.
I wanna keep doing it, because I love it.
I suspect it's nothing.
It's a sprain. It's gonna get better over the next few days, even with no treatment.
But if it gets worse or persists for more than a week,
you call me,
and then we will get him in to get an X-ray to make sure it's ok.
One act of kindness, one gesture of kindness,
can certainly change someone's day,
but an act of kindness can also change someone's life.
Did you know that plastic comes from oil,
and oil comes from dinosaurs like this gal?
Meet Bertha.
Sea Chicken, Hidden Plastic's mascot.
She comes from Lord Howe Island in Australia,
where she was fed on a partial diet of plastic.
Most chicks would starve, but luckily for Sea Chicken,
we came to her rescue and performed a life-saving surgery
on her to remove the plastic.
Scalpel's at the ready!
Let’s go.
A Pepsi bottle?
A packet of Wotsits?
A Doritos packet?
There are microplastics in our fruit and vegetables,
so we're basically poisoning ourselves.
Let's solve the plastic break down problem
together.
A mile in, so 2,999 to go!
I'm walking across the country,
and I'm raising money for the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans.
I just think, for a country as great as, as the United States is,
I think that's an unacceptable number.
We ask them to sacrifice a lot,
so I, I think it's, you know, not much to ask for, when they come home,
to have a nice roof over their head.
I'm a [humanist].
I feel for other persons, and not only my own children and grandchildren.
So, I, I feel that I have to do something for the future generations.
The leaders who are signing these papers in COP,
so I want to ask them if they aren't ashamed.
Some of them, they were going home from Glasgow.
They have [signed papers] on phasing down of the fossil fuel,
but the—they wrote new contracts with fossil fuel companies.
I also want to ask
why they aren't thinking most about their children and grandchildren
and future generations instead for money.
It seems always only money, what is important for them.
I've experienced a lot of voice dysphoria in this world out there
and don't feel very comfortable maybe walking into a lot of spaces.
I just really hope that it will provide a resource for folks that need something like this,
just to maybe even see queer people
in an area where they're not seeing queer people.
I'm just, like, so grateful and so excited just to see this grow
and can't wait for just the queer magic that happens when the map is just massive.