Health
Better information and ideas for healthier lives and healthier communities.
- Preventive health
- Medical innovation
- Nutrition
- Fitness
- Healthy aging
- Community health
- Healthcare access
- Health education
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A Better World Starts With Meaningful Connection. Connecting people, ideas and opportunities for health, wellness, prosperity, knowledge and peace.
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Health. Wellness. Prosperity. Peace. Knowledge. Opportunity.
One World. Billions of People. Unlimited Possibilities.
Civilized Universe is built around a simple idea: human beings have far more to gain from communicating, learning and working together than from being divided.
Around the world, people are developing better ways to live, work, learn, create, build businesses, improve health and strengthen communities.
Civilized Universe provides a place to discover and share those ideas — a positive global outreach and communications network for people, organizations, businesses, educators, professionals, creators and communities.
Our focus is not on what divides humanity. Our focus is on what can improve it.
Six areas where the world is already moving forward.
Every area of the network exists for the same reason: to give useful ideas, capable people and real opportunities more attention than argument ever gets.
Wellness
Ideas that improve everyday quality of life.
- Physical wellness
- Mental well-being
- Fitness
- Nutrition
- Healthy lifestyles
- Relationships
- Recreation
- Work-life balance
- Longevity
Prosperity
Ideas and opportunities that help individuals, families, businesses and communities prosper.
- Entrepreneurship
- Small business
- Careers
- Investing education
- Financial literacy
- Innovation
- Real estate
- Economic opportunity
- International business
- Job creation
Peace
Peace often begins when people communicate. We encourage conversations and initiatives that promote cooperation, understanding and practical solutions.
- Cultural understanding
- Community cooperation
- Diplomacy
- Conflict prevention
- Humanitarian initiatives
- International collaboration
Knowledge
Ideas worth learning and sharing.
- Science
- Education
- History
- Technology
- Research
- Universities
- Skills
- Artificial intelligence
- Space
- Engineering
- Future technologies
Opportunity
Connect people with meaningful opportunities.
- Business opportunities
- Careers
- Education
- Partnerships
- Investment opportunities
- International collaboration
- Media opportunities
- Community projects
Meaningful Conversations
The internet gives billions of people the ability to communicate. Civilized Universe asks a different question: what if we used that ability to have better conversations? We feature interviews and discussions with people who have knowledge, experience or an interesting perspective.
Talk About Something That Matters.
- Health
- Business
- Science
- Education
- Technology
- Relationships
- Communities
- Culture
- The environment
- Human achievement
- The future
Ideas Worth Sharing
Sometimes one useful idea can improve millions of lives.
Civilized Universe searches the world for practical ideas worth sharing — then puts them in front of the people who can use them.
A Better Way to Stay Healthy
Community nurses turning routine screening into neighborhood habit, one class at a time.
A Small Business Changing Its Community
A family bakery that became a first job, a meeting place and a local supply chain.
Technology Improving Everyday Life
An inexpensive sensor that tells an entire village when its water is safe to drink.
An Idea That Could Help Millions
Solar refrigeration keeping medicine viable where the power supply cannot be trusted.
A New Approach to Education
Teachers sharing one lesson plan across four countries and improving it every term.
Building More Peaceful Communities
Neighbors from different cultures who started with a garden and ended with a council.
Good News From Around the World
The purpose is not to pretend problems do not exist. The purpose is to give constructive developments and real solutions more attention than outrage receives.
- Medical breakthroughs
- Scientific discoveries
- Successful businesses
- New technologies
- Community improvements
- Environmental improvements
- Educational achievements
- Human-interest stories
- Acts of cooperation
- People overcoming challenges
Medical breakthrough
A treatment protocol that halved recovery time in a regional hospital network
Clinicians in three countries compared notes for a year, standardized what worked and published everything they learned.
Environmental progress
A restored coastline that brought back both the fish and the fishing town
Volunteers, marine biologists and local businesses replanted mangrove forest that now protects the harbor during storm season.
Educational achievement
A graduating class that became the first in its district to reach university
Teachers, families and local employers built a tutoring and internship pipeline and simply kept it running.
Meet People Moving Civilization Forward
People
Worth Knowing
- Entrepreneurs
- Doctors
- Scientists
- Teachers
- Artists
- Inventors
- Community leaders
- Students
Places
Worth Exploring
- Cities
- Countries
- Neighborhoods
- Universities
- Cultural destinations
The Future
Is Already Here
- Students
- Young entrepreneurs
- Young scientists
- Creators
- Athletes
- Inventors
- Future leaders
- Internships
Civilized Business
Business Can Improve Civilization.
We feature companies, entrepreneurs and organizations creating useful products, services, jobs and innovations — the ordinary work that quietly raises the standard of living for everyone around it.
- Entrepreneurs
- Small Business
- Technology
- Health Companies
- Real Estate
- Manufacturing
- Hospitality
- Media
- Professional Services
- International Business
- Innovation
Civilized Health
Healthier People. Stronger Civilization.
Doctors, health professionals, fitness experts, researchers and wellness organizations sharing healthy living information, medical innovation, nutrition and longevity knowledge that people can actually use.
- Doctors
- Health professionals
- Fitness experts
- Researchers
- Wellness organizations
- Medical innovations
- Nutrition
- Longevity
Civilized Planet
One Planet. Shared Responsibility.
The physical world is the one thing every person shares. Our focus is practical solutions and working technology rather than political argument.
- Clean water
- Clean communities
- Agriculture
- Energy innovation
- Conservation
- Oceans
- Forests
- Wildlife
- Sustainable technologies
Watch Civilized Universe
A global video network of conversations, interviews and reports about the people, ideas and places moving civilization forward.
- Meaningful Conversations
- Health & Wellness
- Prosperity
- People
- Places
- Ideas
- Innovation
- Good News
- The Future
Featured conversation
Six people, four continents, one question: what actually makes a community healthier?
Health & Wellness
What a cardiologist wishes every patient understood
Prosperity
From one room to forty employees, told by the founder
Places
An evening market that keeps a whole district working
The Future
The engineers building the next generation of small satellites
Connect the World
Have something worthwhile to share? Civilized Universe wants to hear from individuals and organizations throughout the world. Every submission goes straight to our team.
Join Civilized Universe
Become Part of the Civilized Universe
You don't need to be famous, powerful or wealthy to have something valuable to contribute.
You might be an entrepreneur with an idea. A doctor with useful knowledge. A student with a question. A teacher with experience. A business creating jobs. A scientist working on tomorrow's technology. A parent helping a community. Or simply someone who believes people can communicate better.
There is room for you in the Civilized Universe.
Join the Network
Tell us who you are and how you would like to participate.
From Everywhere. For Everyone.
- North America
- South America
- Europe
- Africa
- Asia
- Middle East
- Australia & Pacific
The Civilized Standard
Civilized Universe welcomes different cultures, experiences, ideas and perspectives. Meaningful disagreement is part of meaningful conversation. Hatred is not.
No hate. No intentionally divisive content. No hostility. No destructive political fighting.
- Respect over hostility.
- Facts over misinformation.
- Conversation over shouting.
- Solutions over division.
- Curiosity over prejudice.
- Opportunity over hopelessness.
- Peace over violence.
- Progress over destruction.
We don't expect everyone to agree. We expect people to communicate like civilized human beings.
Universities & Schools
Healthcare Organizations
Technology & Research
Community & Media
Let's Do Something Good Together.
Organizations of every size are invited to participate in the network.
- Businesses
- Universities
- Schools
- Healthcare organizations
- Nonprofits
- Media companies
- Professional organizations
- Community organizations
- Technology companies
- Research organizations
- Cities and tourism organizations
- International organizations
Feature Someone
Know Someone the World Should Know?
Civilized Universe is looking for interesting people doing constructive things — or simply someone whose story deserves to be heard.
- An entrepreneur.
- A teacher.
- A doctor.
- A scientist.
- An artist.
- A student.
- An inventor.
- A community leader.
