In just three years, Rachel Wheeler raised more than $250,000, which helped build brand new earthquake-proof homes that have given shelter to 27 families that were living in tent cities since Haiti’s earthquake.
What’s next for the determined Florida pre-teen? Building a new school in the disaster-ravaged country.
If you’ve ever heard anyone disagree with the statement that every vote matters on election day, tell them about the Maine town which last week proved the point from its ballot boxes.
“The Landis mayor’s race is tied. Again.
And with two provisional ballots to be counted in today’s official canvass, the winner could come down to the toss of a coin.”
Since 1997, communities across the country have come together on November 15 for America Recycles Day — the only nationally recognized day dedicated to the promotion of recycling in the U.S.
Now it’s easier to figure out what items can be recycled and what can’t by using a database searchable by locality here at Earth911.com.
Other websites help citizens navigate the tangle of recycling opportunities and identify the difference between corrugated cardboard and common food cartons, hazardous waste and disposable waste.
Check out the Recyclo-pedia that lists facts about how to recycle batteries, electronics and medicines.
What can be accomplished when we all work together? Here are some Fun Facts:
LEARN more at AmericaRecyclesDay.org.
Remember when Justin Timberlake received a unique request via YouTube to be someone’s date to the Marine Corps ball?
Well, on Saturday, the 30-year-old singer-actor attended the gala with Cpl. Kelsey De Santis in Richmond, Va.
He wrote on his website that the event “turned out to be one of the most moving evenings I’ve ever had.”
Remember when Justin Timberlake received a unique request via YouTube to be someone’s date to the Marine Corps ball?
Well, on Saturday, the 30-year-old singer-actor attended the gala with Cpl. Kelsey De Santis in Richmond, Va.
He wrote on his website that the event “turned out to be one of the most moving evenings I’ve ever had.”
When a 7-year-old learned his friend had cancer, he decded he could help raise money by racing go-karts.
One of the boy’s heroes, Nascar racer Jeff Gordon, heard about his campaign and decided to help.
Gordon has already raised millions of dollars for kids with cancer.
To inspire his new friend, the star donated $7,000, doubling what Timmy Tyrrell had collected through his go-kart racing, and gave him a private tour as guest member of his pit crew.
When a 7-year-old learned his friend had cancer, he decded he could help raise money by racing go-karts.
One of the boy’s heroes, Nascar racer Jeff Gordon, heard about his campaign and decided to help.
Gordon has already raised millions of dollars for kids with cancer.
To inspire his new friend, the star donated $7,000, doubling what Timmy Tyrrell had collected through his go-kart racing, and gave him a private tour as guest member of his pit crew.
Christmas is weeks away but one little boy is planning to play Santa for a family he doesn’t even know.
The 7-year-old boy in Carrollton, Georgia heard his parents discussing a local family who had lost everything in a house fire. They had no renter’s insurance and have been living in a motel room — all five of them — losing hope by the day.
That’s when they learned of young Bradley Thomas’s efforts to give them a Christmas, and hope is returning.
“The school year had barely begun at Admiral Seymour elementary when teacher Carrie Gelson, frustrated after a difficult day at work, wrote an impassioned open letter to Vancouver residents asking if anyone cared about her inner-city students who were coming to school with empty tummies and holes in their shoes.
“The response was astonishing. Just minutes after her plea was published in The Vancouver Sun, donations and offers of help began to arrive at the school, turning into a flood of generosity that continues to this day.”
(READ the news from the Vancouver Sun)
The group Sweet Blessings has a vision of bringing memorable birthdays to children in need.
Since creating the volunteer program, Ashley Boyd has hand-delivered unforgettable gourmet birthday cakes to kids aged 5-14 living in poverty or experiencing life threatening illness.
“To know that someone else besides his family cares enough about him to make his day even more special is amazing,” said one mother. “His face lit up when he saw a cake he normally would have only dreamed about.”
Sweet Blessings with its army of volunteers has created unique cakes for more than 70 kids in the Kentucky area.
(WATCH the Making a Difference video below from MSNBC)
The fifth annual New York Comedy Festival’s Stand Up for Heroes gala this week featured stellar comedians like Ricky Gervais, Seth Meyers and Jon Stewart onstage at the Beacon Theater. But it was Bruce Springsteen who stole the show when he hand delivered his guitar, harmonica and plaid shirt to the highest bidder in the audience who won it for $160,000 to benefit US veterans and their caregivers.
It was then announced that the winning bidder was giving the guitar to one of the uniformed servicemen at the show, Andrew Kinard, who lost his legs in Iraq and spoke movingly onstage earlier in the evening.
The fifth annual New York Comedy Festival’s Stand Up for Heroes gala this week featured stellar comedians like Ricky Gervais, Seth Meyers and Jon Stewart onstage at the Beacon Theater. But it was Bruce Springsteen who stole the show when he hand delivered his guitar, harmonica and plaid shirt to the highest bidder in the audience who won it for $160,000 to benefit US veterans and their caregivers.
It was then announced that the winning bidder was giving the guitar to one of the uniformed servicemen at the show, Andrew Kinard, who lost his legs in Iraq and spoke movingly onstage earlier in the evening.
After years of speculation that cell phones may harm your brain, new research suggests they may actually fight Alzheimer’s disease.
Microwave radiation from cell phones may protect against and even reverse Alzheimer’s-like symptoms, according to a new study involving genetically tweaked mice.
Ethiopia has more than halved its child mortality rates since 1990 through campaigns to increase the number of health workers and clinics throughout the country, government and aid officials said on Friday.
The number of health posts has surged to more than 9,000 in 2011 from a handful in 2004 with priority shifted towards food-insecure areas, UNICEF said.
In other good news for Africa, Kuwait announced this week that it has contributed $250,000 to UNICEF for humanitarian assistance during the continuing food crisis in Somalia.
New Energy Technologies has designed some speed bumps that motorists should be happy to drive over. Besides slowing down speed demons, as cars and trucks drive over the company’s MotionPower strips, kinetic energy from the vehicles is harvested and converted into electricity.
The Maryland-based company envision the devices powering street and building lights, roadway signs, and potentially electronics and appliances in homes and buildings.
Sitting atop the second largest uranium reserves in the world, Kazakhstan has not followed in the former Soviet Union’s footsteps toward military power.
Instead, it is at the forefront of the global movement for a world free of nuclear weapons.
Where test explosions once shook the earth, scientists are now researching peaceful applications for atomic energy.
“Our country decided that the might of our new state would be determined not by our nuclear muscle, but by our total rejection of it,” Nursultan Nazarbayev, who remains president two decades later, said in a recent speech.
The number of nuclear tests worldwide has fallen dramatically in the last decade, during which only North Korea has broken a de facto worldwide moratorium.
(READ the Reuters story in the Daily Times)
What if you accidentally dumped something in the trash bin that was worth $10,000?
Would you swim in a pile of waste to find it?
After he mistakenly tossed out his wife’s engagement ring, one husband didn’t think twice.
Luckily for Brian McGuinn, he found the diamond among 8 tons of trash.
Early symptoms of Parkinson’s disease may be improved by teaching patients to regulate their brains, a study suggests.
Scientists allowed a small group of patients to monitor magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of their own brain activity as they carried out a finger-tapping task.
After a time they learned to alter activity in specific parts of the brain affected by Parkinson’s.
In a stinging rebuke to President Bashar Assad, the Arab League voted Saturday to suspend Syria’s membership if his government does not take steps within four days to implement a peace plan designed to end months of unrest that has led to hundreds of deaths.
The 22-member league warned that Syria will face further sanctions if they do not withdraw armed forces from populated areas, release political prisoners and begin a dialogue with opponents.
To honor veterans and their commitment to service in the face of sacrifice, Dog Bless You, will donate 11 service dogs to veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Beginning Nov. 11 – Veterans Day – Dog Bless You will give away one dog per day for 11 days, ending Nov. 22.
In just a year since its launch, Dog Bless You has grown to nearly 275,000 members on Facebook backing its multitude of philanthropic projects, like funding the mobilization of search and rescue dogs following the earthquake and tsunami in Japan this spring.
