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In Indonesia People Can Trade Trash for Free Health Care
Patients in Indonesia can trade recyclable trash for doctor visits in a clever plan to get affordable medical care to people in rural villages.
Three...
Cloud Lifts India’s Waste Pickers Off Trash Piles Without Ending Recycling
The third largest city in India piles up huge amounts of garbage every day, while recycling very little. Thousands of Bangalore's poorest citizens pick...
Company Gives Boy Who Loves UPS a Mini Brown Truck to Drive
A 4-year-old Colorado Springs boy who is crazy about trucks, for some reason became enthralled with one in particular -- the big brown delivery...
India’s New Leader Wields Broom in Nationwide ‘Clean India’ Campaign
On the birthday of Mahatma Ghandi this week, the new prime minister of India, Narendra Modi, launched the Clean India movement by picking up...
Buddha Statue Brings Tranquility to Oakland Neighborhood
Crime has plummeted in a neighborhood in Oakland, California where Dan Stevenson decided to install a Buddha statue in 2009.
Dan is not at all religious...
Phoenix Police Officer Rebuilds Woman’s Home After Finding it in Shambles
On August 17, Officer Glenn Branham responded to a routine burglary call and found that the copper water pipes had been stolen and the...
India’s ‘Plastic Man’ Turns Litter Into Paved Roads
A professor of chemistry in Madurai, India believes the mounds of trash lining the roads and fields to be a "wonderful resource" for his country.
The...
Sweet Encounter With Homeless Man Proves ‘Giving is Receiving’
I often drive to the ocean (which surrounds Brooklyn) to sit and meditate, to brood, to seek inspiration or healing. Everyone has their individual...
Recycled Christmas Trees = Mulch, Dunes, Habitats
It's one of America's great recycling success stories: Every year, hundreds of thousands of discarded Christmas trees are collected and reused. Many are picked...
And, the Top 10 CNN Heroes of 2013 are…
They clean up rivers, build homes for disabled veterans and bring health care to some of the darkest parts of the world. They help...
Ingenious 19-year-old Develops Plan to Clean up Oceans in 5 Years
Worried about the tiny fragments of plastic covering beaches and polluting food chains, 19-year-old Boyan Slat created the Ocean Array Plan, an ingenious project that...
Italian Ingenuity: Europe’s First Zero Waste Town
Capannori, a rural town in the Italian province of Lucca, in Tuscany, boasts a proud history. Six years ago, it became a trendsetter and...
Houston’s Plan To Make Landfills Extinct
To increase the city’s dismal recycling rates, Houston’s government is trying something else: One Bin for All. It will collect all trash together in...
Orchestra Plays Hero to 4th Grade Student
Aidan Milligan's home will be alive with the sound of music once again. The orchestra says it will replace a trombone, the pride of...
Start Up Company Wins $630,000 for Making Bio-Plastic Out of Greenhouse Gas
A young start-up called Mango Materials has won a Green Challenge prize of $630,000 for its plan to use bacteria to turn the most...
Filipino Street Kid Wins $130,000 Peace Prize
An abused Filipino child who lived off a garbage dump has won a prestigious children's award for the work of his 'Championing Community Children'...
Brazilian Slum Landfill Turned into Park by Volunteers
A former landfill in a Rio de Janeiro slum has been turned into a park thanks to a group of dedicated volunteers.
"People came here...
Iraq Veterans Turn Around Drug-infested Neighborhood
Veterans are taking the lead in Baltimore, cleaning up years of blight and helping residents in a mostly poor, African-American neighborhood to rid the...
Formerly Homeless Woman Finds Inspiration in the Trash
After surviving a year and a half of homelessness in the early 1980s, Lucinda Yates moved back to Portland and started putting her life...
Composting Project Puts 12 Tons of Dog Poop to Good Use
It’s been almost three years since a grand experiment began in a dog park in Ithaca, N.Y., and the results are finally in.
Dog dung...