In the wake of disaster: Oysters begin cleaning the Gulf
January 31, 2011The solution is more simple than you might think. Oysters, nature’s vacuum cleaner.
Today in Global Good
Muslims in Egypt turn up en masse to Coptic Christmas, serving as “human shields”
January 10, 2011Side by side with their fellow Egyptians.
Christopher Senyonjo Provides Hope For Gays In Uganda
December 8, 2010A lone activist for gays living in Uganda.
Poison Eating Bacteria Changes Life As We Know It
December 6, 2010A group of scientists working for NASA in California have discovered a bacteria unlike anything else previously known on earth.
Luxury German Automaker Designs Poland’s New Recyclable Subway Cars
December 2, 2010Set for deployment in 2012, BMW has been quietly designing the world’s most modern subway car in Warsaw,
Mind the Gap – Building Bridges that Save in Kenya
November 30, 2010“I have built many bridges in very remote areas for the ‘few and the needy’ that a larger organization may not consider”
Children fighting for Children – Banding Together in War-Torn Congo
November 19, 2010In the DR Congo children have created an organization known as the Children’s Parliament, to defend and teach human rights.
The World According to the Prince of Wales
November 17, 2010We’ve lost touch with our world, says the Prince of Wales. As consumption grows across the globe and resources dwindle, its easy to look at the entire sum of problems and feel discouraged. We hear about new technologies; solar arrays, wind farms, and electric cars but often they seem slow on the uptake. We look around ...
Bomb Sniffing Rats Clean Mozambique
November 12, 2010Mozambique- Today, rats have assisted in reopening 2 million square meters (aprox. 6.5 million feet) of previously unsafe land in Mozambique, thanks to their ability to sniff out hidden land mines. It takes about nice months to train a rat to sniff the TNT used in a land mine. The rat indicates his discovery by scratching ...
Better than Plastics? – Insulation and Packaging from Mushrooms
October 12, 2010Eben Bayer and Gavin McIntyre at Ecovative has developed a way to create packaging material from mushrooms
Human Waste Used to Power 200 Homes
October 6, 2010A town in the UK has become the first ever to supply homes with natural gas…created from human waste.
Bringing Hope to War-Torn Afghanistan
October 2, 2010Inge Missmahl witnessed chaos, violence and despair on her first visit to Afghanistan. Now, spends her time on a mission of healing. The most effective answer she’s found to the hardships people endure here is not medicinal, its psychological.
Costa Rican Man Friends Crocodile
September 29, 2010Deep in the Costa Rican jungle, a fisherman named Chito discovered a crocodile that had been shot in the eye by a cattle farmer and left for dead. Chito was able to drag the massive reptile into his boat and brought to his home, where he stayed by his side for months, nursing him back to health.
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