In Nairobi, the Africa Yoga Project is training HIV+, poor, and disabled citizens to be yoga instructors, creating jobs and changing lives.
AYP hosts 200 free classes a week, reaching 3,000 students with 42 local yoga instructors. Most students are aged 16-30, living on about $2 a day, and many live in Nairobi slums with HIV/AIDS.
(READ the story in AlterNet.org)
Also, visit the website: www.africayogaproject.org
WATCH the video by Africa Yoga Project…
When you’ve got Gaga on your side, it’s easy to raise lots of money. That’s what the MAC AIDS Fund, the philanthropic arm of MAC Cosmetics, discovered during Lady Gaga’s tenure as spokesperson over the past year.
Jackson Browne, Alice Cooper, David Crosby and Graham Nash will perform in Tucson, Ariz., to benefit a charitable fund established after the shooting there that killed six people and wounded 13 others.
It will benefit the Fund for Civility, Respect, and Understanding. Wounded Giffords aide Ron Barber started the fund to support people affected by the Jan. 8 shooting and to hold events promoting community unity.
(READ more at the Huffington Post)
Recent protests in Egypt have been covered extensively in the media, but stories of Christian-Muslim solidarity have not — and they deserve to be.
During the protests, Christians stood in a circle around Muslims during their Friday prayers to protect them from police. And last Monday, Muslims stood around Christians in Tahrir Square as they conducted mass, and joined them in prayer for those who were injured or died in the protests.
Recent protests in Egypt have been covered extensively in the media, but stories of Christian-Muslim solidarity have not — and they deserve to be.
During the protests, Christians stood in a circle around Muslims during their Friday prayers to protect them from police. And last Monday, Muslims stood around Christians in Tahrir Square as they conducted mass, and joined them in prayer for those who were injured or died in the protests.
London’s transportation agency is offering its 13 city boroughs a share of £4 million to encouraging more cycling around the capital.
Bids will be accepted for cash to create on-street cycle parking, cycle awareness training for lorry drivers and many other projects.
First lady Michelle Obama will be speaking out to remove barriers to breastfeeding, throwing the spotlight on nursing as a way to reduce childhood obesity.
The Obama administration has already made several moves to encourage breastfeeding — including a push for more flexible workplace rules — and offering tax credits for breast pumps and other nursing supplies through the IRS.
Nike has big goals on reducing overall material use, on reducing toxics in their products, design products for recyclability, and eventually creating a closed-loop system. The overarching idea is Nike Considered, an ethos for Nike’s operations and products to do more than just less bad, but to do more good.
For example, the company’s World Cup jerseys for the 2010 South Africa games were made of 100 percent recycled polyester, with each jersey taking eight plastic bottles out of landfills. The net result of that one project alone was reusing 13 million plastic bottles, and showed what was possible with Nike’s new ethos.
(READ the story at GreenBiz.com)
The purse-wielding “Super Granny” who bested six young thugs as they smashed in a jewelry store window in England, in broad daylight says she is no hero. She had no idea at first that she was breaking up a robbery. “I’m just a mum that went in thinking a kid was getting hit.”
Despite her tightly bandaged and throbbing arthritic legs, Ann Timson stood eyeball to eyeball with one of the men after he lifted the sledgehammer. He quickly dropped it. (Watch the video shot by a passerby)
“I think they were mesmerized,” she told Today show hosts.
WATCH the interview below, or read the story at MSNBC…
The purse-wielding “Super Granny” who bested six young thugs as they smashed in a jewelry store window in England, in broad daylight says she is no hero. She had no idea at first that she was breaking up a robbery. “I’m just a mum that went in thinking a kid was getting hit.”
Despite her tightly bandaged and throbbing arthritic legs, Ann Timson stood eyeball to eyeball with one of the men after he lifted the sledgehammer. He quickly dropped it. (Watch the video shot by a passerby)
“I think they were mesmerized,” she told Today show hosts.
The subway hero who saved a woman pushed to the tracks by a psycho meet his own hero Wednesday night when he was honored at the Knicks game.
Derrick Oakes was presented with a plaque and $2,000 to present to the charity of his choice. John Starks, his favorite among Knicks greats, was set to make the presentation at Madison Square Garden at halftime.
“I couldn’t sleep all night,” Oakes, 43, said Monday. “Oh man, it’s like a dream.”
(READ more at the NY Daily News)
According to conventional medical wisdom, three-year-old Chase Britton shouldn’t be able to walk. He shouldn’t be able to stand, let alone balance himself as he puts one foot in front of the other. The fact that he even breathes on his own is nothing short of remarkable.
He is, quite simply, a medical miracle.
You may know the Harvard Grad and mom, Stacie Turner, from her season on The Real Housewives of D.C., but one of her most important roles is that of philanthropist and founder of a charity that helps teen girls to thrive in foster care.
She was born into foster care herself, so the program, Extra-Ordinary Life (XOL), evolved from a very personal vision to inspire, motivate and encourage young girls who are living in DC foster homes.
Lala, the 10 year old King Penguin is so smart – he walks to the fish store every day with his little backpack to shop for fresh fish.
Listen to Geri, the founder and editor of the Good News Network, on the radio today (or check back later for archive link).
She will be talking with the hosts of Light at the End of the Tunnel, broadcasting in Seattle, live on 106.9 HD Channel 3, or listen on the internet HERE at: ContactTalkRadio.
TIME: Noon Pacific Time (3PM Eastern; 2PM Central).
Call in with questions or comments at 1-877-230-3062. Sallie Felton and her husband host the hour long show.
The topic for today is Depression 101: The Benefits of Positive News
(Check back for link to listen at the archived radio show page)
Calling all supporters of happiness: Get your tickets for exclusive pre-release screenings of HAPPY, the new documentary by Academy Award winning director Roko Belic for one show only in Los Angeles and San Francisco (see movie trailer below). Special guests will join Mr. Belic in person for a Q+A session after each event.
HAPPY takes us on a journey from the swamps of Louisiana to the slums of Kolkata in search of what really makes people happy. The film combines real life stories of ordinary and extraordinary people around the world and powerful interviews with the leading happiness researchers, like Richard Davidson, Daniel Gilbert and Mihaly Csikszentmihaly. Marci Shimoff, author of the New York Times bestsellers Happy For No Reason, narrates. (Watch the film trailer below, or visite TheHappyMovie.com for more info.
Calling all supporters of happiness: Get your tickets for exclusive pre-release screenings of HAPPY, the new documentary by Academy Award winning director Roko Belic for one show only in Los Angeles and San Francisco (see movie trailer below). Special guests will join Mr. Belic in person for a Q+A session after each event.
HAPPY takes us on a journey from the swamps of Louisiana to the slums of Kolkata in search of what really makes people happy. The film combines real life stories of ordinary and extraordinary people around the world and powerful interviews with the leading happiness researchers, like Richard Davidson, Daniel Gilbert and Mihaly Csikszentmihaly. Marci Shimoff, author of the New York Times bestsellers Happy For No Reason, narrates. (Watch the film trailer below, or visite TheHappyMovie.com for more info.
What if all the contaminated sediment lingering in bodies of water, like the Mississippi River, could be used for good?
Researchers for a Scandinavian consortium have figured out a way to dredge the soil contaminated with cadmium, lead and mercury and turn it into a concrete-like substance that can be used for construction. The blending of the sediment with a special mix of binders produces a safe construction material for use in ports and harbors.
(READ the story at Science Daily or Fast Company)
It’s bad enough to fill up landfills with recyclable food packaging, but it’s even worse when people start piling on the remains of hulking appliances.
That’s why GE has begun a partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency to improve best practices for appliance recycling. It doesn’t sound sexy, but GE estimates that its new recycling technology could cut refrigerator landfill waste by 85%. Note: Nine million refrigerators are disposed of in the U.S. each year.
(READ the story at Fast Company)
Do you enjoy the challenge of putting your knowledge to the test? A new and addictive trivia game from OhMyGov.com gives people the power to save lives while they engage in their favorite pastime: frivolously spending time on the Internet.
The “Real or UnReal” game presents factoids taken from breaking news, political history, science and technology, and the strange-but-true stories of government that OhMyGov, the Webby-honored blog, is known for, and asks readers to guess: Are they Real or UnReal? For every correct answer, OhMyGov donates money to its charity partner, Blood:Water Mission, to provide one day’s worth of safe drinking water for a child in Africa.
