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Posted by geri
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Friday, 02 June 2006 |
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The BBC reports Kenya's president has announced that anti-retroviral drugs will now be free to all people with AIDS within all of its clinics and hospitals.
Kenya is one of the few countries to reduce their citizens' HIV rate, "from 14 percent in 1997 to 4 percent today." The cost for treatment — 100 shilling per dose ($1) — keeps 140,000 of the 200,000 eligible Kenyans from taking the beneficial drugs. (more )
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Posted by geri
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Friday, 02 June 2006 |
 The Olive Co-operative has launched an initiative that offers the
public an opportunity to sponsor the planting of olive trees in
Palestine.
The new trees will offset the destruction wrought in Palestinian
olive groves by years of conflict in the area. According to the Applied Research
Institute of Jerusalem over 500,000 olive trees have been destroyed
since 2000. Each new tree sponsored represents a long-term
source of income for Palestinian families, who have been
harvesting olive oil, fruit and wood for generations...
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Read more... [Trees For Life, Planting Peace in Palestine]
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Posted by geri
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Thursday, 01 June 2006 |
Never let the label of autism be associated in your mind with failure.
A high school basketball coach in Rochester, NY, for the last game of the  season, let somebody play who'd never even suited up before -- the team's autistic manager. Not only had the boy the ability to churn out team spirit all year while working as the lowly "team manager", he absolutely caught fire as a player on the court, launching 3-pointers through the net, one after another. Thanks to GNN-i user Jeff who sent this "very inspiring" CBS video. Steve Hartman's reporting is just right.
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Posted by geri
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Wednesday, 31 May 2006 |
 I will not be the only one with tears running down my face after some of you read this story.
Katrina's Piano Fund has delivered hundreds of replacement
instruments -- including more than 40 pianos -- to regional New Orleans musicians who lost everything in the
huricane.
Steve Burtchaell, a professional musician, mourned his family's loss of
a Steinway baby grand piano. He, like everybody else, had to put his
instrument at the bottom of a mile-long list of priorities and realized it was
probably never going to be replaced.
But after hearing of the Fund, Steve became the first applicant to request a piano.
On April 21, two tractor trailers pulled up to the meeting hall of
Corpus Christi Catholic Church on St. Bernard Avenue and Steve was
given
first choice of the 41 pianos delivered.
"We had just one baby grand, donated by Jennifer Wydra of South Orange,
NJ," recalls one of the founders of the Fund. . .
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Read more... [Katrina's Piano Fund Replaces Instruments Lost in Flooding, Restores Musicians]
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Posted by geri
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Wednesday, 31 May 2006 |
 (Reprint of a GNN story from 2003; in preparation for a followup article soon)
IMAGINE. . .
Imagine a machine that can turn almost anything into oil. Imagine that
it uses natural processes like heat and pressure, and produces no
pollution. Imagine that waste from landfills, refuse from poultry
factories, sludge from city sewage, or even infectious medical
waste, are used to make the oil. Everybody says it sounds too good to
be true. But now we have the science -- and two factories -- to prove
it.
"This is a solution to three of the biggest problems facing mankind,"
Brian Appel, CEO of Changing World Technologies, Inc., told Discover
magazine in a May 2003 feature article. "This process can deal with the
world's waste. It can supplement our dwindling supplies of oil. And it
can slow down global warming."
The process is called thermal depolymerization. Waste goes in one end
and comes out the other as three products, all valuable and
environmentally benign: High-quality oil, clean-burning gas, and
purified minerals that can be used as fuels, fertilizers, or specialty
chemicals for manufacturing. . .
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Read more... [New Technology Turns Garbage Into Gold]
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