A UK solar power company announced a £2m funding boost Tuesday that will help to manufacture solar glass in a wide range of colors that can generate electricity from the sun’s rays.
Oxford Photovoltaics, a spin-off from the University of Oxford, said the investment will help bring its solar panes closer to the commercial market.
The cost of these pretty panels adds just 10% to the builder’s budget for any glass building.
The adorable kids in the fifth grade chorus of PS 22 in Staten Island talk about the importance of Valentine’s Day and cheer up senior citizens with songs and cards.
Jenna Bush reports for the Today show by asking the kids what love means to them. When they sing love songs for the senior citizens the oldsters “can’t stop hugging” them.
(WATCH the video below from TODAY)
Bhutan plans to become the first country in the world to turn its agriculture completely organic, banning the sales of pesticides and herbicides and relying on its own animals and farm waste for fertilizers.
The reason for the pesticide ban within its borders is largely practical, according to Bhutan’s minister of agriculture and forests.
“Ours is a mountainous terrain. When we use chemicals they don’t stay where we use them, they impact the water and plants.”
For Valentine’s Day, we wanted to share a video Kevin White made as a creative way to propose to his girlfriend.
It took him just one day to complete the production.
“We did a little bit the day before with her family, while Madi was at work, and luckily got her little brother to keep quiet about it.”
A homeless man who hit the jackpot in his change cup—a diamond ring—showed he had a heart of gold by returning it.
The woman who accidentally dumped her engagement ring along with all the spare change in her wallet into the cup noticed the mistake long after she had given the pricey item to the Kansas City man, Billy Ray Harris.
Middle-aged adults who are more optimistic about their future tend to have higher antioxidant levels than their less optimistic peers, according to new research out of Harvard.
Investigators studying nearly one thousand people over ten years found that increases in optimism correlated with an increase in concentration of antioxidants like vitamin E and beta-carotene, which is found in deeply-colored vegetables like carrots and kale.
The Hamm’s Brewery in St. Paul, Minnesota closed in 1997, but now one of the vacant buildings is being renovated into an urban farm.
A group called Urban Organics wants to bring more jobs, fresh vegetables and fish to restaurants and markets in the Twin Cities.
The building has been vacant for more than 100 years, but now it will be home to organic veggies and fish.
Some US farmers are considering returning to conventional seed after increased pest resistance and crop failures meant genetically modified (GM) crops saw smaller yields globally than their non-GM counterparts.
“Farmers are paying extra for the technology but have seen yields which are no better than 10 years ago. They’re starting to wonder why they’re spending extra money on the technology,” said economist Dan Basse, president of American agricultural research company AgResource.
An Affenpinscher named Banana Joe, took center stage winning Best in Show at the prestigious 137th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, the first time an Affenpinscher has won Best in Show at Westminster since the breed’s recognition in 1938.
After a long absence of some 20 years, migrant starlings have returned to Israel in huge synchronized flocks, creating beautiful moving ‘clouds in the skies. Israeli ornithologists and amateur bird watchers flocked to an open field to once again see the show, a phenomenon called murmuration.
At children’s hospitals around the country, window washers are dressing up as super heroes, doing their part to help kids feel better.
When Superman, Batman or Spiderman are spotted outside their hospital room window, a child’s mood can instantly turn happy.
It started in Florida but is spreading nationwide.
(WATCH the Making A Difference video from NBC below)
At children’s hospitals around the country, window washers are dressing up as super heroes, doing their part to help kids feel better.
When Superman, Batman or Spiderman are spotted outside their hospital room window, a child’s mood can instantly turn happy.
It started in Florida but is spreading nationwide.
In an outcome hailed by environmentalists, European Union lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to overhaul the region’s troubled fisheries policy to end decades of overfishing.
The European Parliament voted 502-to-137 to impose sustainable quotas by 2015 and end the wasteful practice of discarding unwanted fish at sea.
“This is a triumph especially in these times of crisis,” Roberto Ferrigno, a fisheries expert at WWF’s European Policy Office.
Religious leaders are honoring Pope Benedict XVI for his emphasis on making service a cornerstone of one’s life.
Benedict, who announced Monday that he is resigning Feb. 28, has long called on Catholic charity organizations to go beyond routine service acts and to truly exemplify the meaning of giving.
Chris Kline doesn’t like to tell his wife of 17 years, Tara, that he loves her. He prefers to show her—by loading her favorite songs on her phone and warming up her car on cold mornings. While she was away on business recently, he surprised her by painting her home office in her favorite colors.
Small selfless acts between spouses aren’t just nice—they also are necessary, experts say.
On Jan. 12, Haitians solemnly marked the three-year anniversary of the catastrophic magnitude 7.0 earthquake that decimated their homeland.
Today, a few of the tent cities and shacks that housed refugees are gone, but many remain. For the respected San Francisco developer Sherman Balch, the work is just beginning.
“We want to give the Haitians employable skills,” Balch said. “It comes down to if you want to alleviate poverty, you’ve got to give them jobs. … They need to learn a trade.”
On Jan. 12, Haitians solemnly marked the three-year anniversary of the catastrophic magnitude 7.0 earthquake that decimated their homeland.
Today, a few of the tent cities and shacks that housed refugees are gone, but many remain. For the respected San Francisco developer Sherman Balch, the work is just beginning.
“We want to give the Haitians employable skills,” Balch said. “It comes down to if you want to alleviate poverty, you’ve got to give them jobs. … They need to learn a trade.”
With the first massive snowstorm of the winter having buried cars and mailboxes across America, some are recalling the good things that come with snow emergencies.
We have been programmed to despise winter weather and retreat back into our homes. Yet snow deserves a second look. Blizzards bring us together.
Winter tasks bring us outdoors to work together, under the wide open sky, often chatting with and helping our neighbors.
Nine-month-old Flipper the kitten was born with a twisted spine that makes it impossible for him to stand up — or walk about without dragging himself laboriously.
But little Flipper’s life was changed forever by cat-lovers from a high school robotics club in Colorado.
The team built a special kitty chariot for the partially paralyzed cat, who is now scampering around the animal shelter with ease — and made him more adoptable too.
Nine-month-old Flipper the kitten was born with a twisted spine that makes it impossible for him to stand up — or walk about without dragging himself laboriously.
But little Flipper’s life was changed forever by cat-lovers from a high school robotics club in Colorado.
The team built a special kitty chariot for the partially paralyzed cat, who is now scampering around the animal shelter with ease — and made him more adoptable too.
