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Bronx Housing Complex Comes With Giant Machine Stomach to Turn All Food Waste Into Fertilizer
A new community housing development in the Bronx will feature a cool piece of kit: an on-site aerobic digester that can turn 1,100 pounds...
From Pizza to Fresh Vegetables: When You’re in The Bronx, You’re Going to Get Fed By This Generous Community
During the pandemic, people in Riverdale in The Bronx have set up The Pizza Brigade and a Friendly Fridge on the street to feed those in need.
Bronx School Teacher’s Dream Helps 4,400 Poor Kids Get to College
Concerned about the wide achievement gap that affects children of color, a South Bronx school teacher, Gary Simons, with the support of Columbia University’s...
Ingenious Surgery Saves Eyesight — and the Life — of Bronx Mother
When 36-year-old Nordia Palmer-Ferguson went to her doctor complaining of blurred vision, headaches, pressure and swelling in her left eye, little did she know...
Good News in History, April 18
80 years ago today, the inaugural hearing of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) also called the World Court, was held at the Peace...
Good News in History, March 20
205 years ago today, the Burlington Arcade opened in Piccadilly, London. It is one of the precursors of the mid-19th-century European shopping gallery and...
New York Medical School Surprises Students with Free Tuition in Perpetuity After $1Billion Gift–WATCH
When a woman was left an inheritance of $1 billion from her late husband, she used it to pay forward the tuition of students...
Good News in History, January 6
61 years ago today, Mutual of Omaha's 'Wild Kingdom' was first broadcast on NBC. Hosted by American zoologist Marlin Perkins and filmed by Jim...
Good News in History, October 14
156 years ago today, Masaoka Shiki, considered one of Japan's four masters of haiku, was born. He wrote more than 20,000 stanzas of this...
Good News in History, August 17
Happy Birthday to Robert De Niro, who was born in New York City 80 years ago today. The actor has appeared in over 100...
CNN Hero: Man Helps Barbers Fill Their Shops with Books to Help Kids Find Excitement in Reading
One day in the Bronx, a first-grade teacher sat down in a barbershop for a trim and one of his students walked in, sat...
Good News in History, July 24
48 years ago today, Giorgio Armani and Sergio Galeotti founded Giorgio Armani S.p.A (joint stock company) in Milan, Italy. Armani had no education in...
Good News in History, July 11
130 years ago today, a Japanese entrepreneur named Mikimoto Kōkichi created the first cultured pearl and subsequently started the cultured pearl industry with the...
Good News in History, June 25
113 years ago today, Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird premiered in Paris' Palais Garnier, bringing international acclaim to the Russian. Based on a Russian fable of...
Good News in History, June 22
85 years ago today, Joe Louis knocked out Max Schmeling in a re-match of perhaps the most famous fight series in history. It completely...
South Korea Created A Program that Reuses 90% of the Country’s Food Scraps–to Grow Crops Instead of Landfills
Of South Korea's countless kilograms of annual food scraps, very few will ever end up in a landfill. This is because of two reasons—the...
Good News in History, May 25
60 years ago, the Organization for African Unity (OAU) was formed in Ethiopia with 32 members. The founding Chairman was the founding father of...
Making Building Materials Out of Fast-Growing Grasses Capture More Carbon Than Trees for US Startup
A startup looking to find better ways to mass-produce lumber for construction has swapped trees for grass.
It turns out that with sophisticated laminating and...
Officials Want to Turn Rikers Island Prison Into a Green Energy Hub
A coalition of groups are envisioning the former jails on Rikers Island as the hub for green energy generation, enough to power 45,000 homes.
They...
Berlin’s Derelict Airport Undergoes Transformation to Become a Sustainable Neighborhood
With 580 acres of ex-airport real estate now available, the area is being dreamed of as a sustainable neighborhood of wide open green spaces,...