Brad Pitt was interviewed for Meet The Press on this anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and gave a tour of the new homes built by his Make It Right Foundation.
Residents living in these affordable, sustainable homes now pay nothing for electricity because the homes make more energy than they use.
Another special feature is their flood resistant architecture.
Brad Pitt was interviewed for Meet The Press on this anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and gave a tour of the new homes built by his Make It Right Foundation.
Residents living in these affordable, sustainable homes now pay nothing for electricity because the homes make more energy than they use.
Another special feature is their flood resistant architecture.
Exercise is a KEY to happiness. Research shows that people who exercise are healthier, more energetic, think more clearly, sleep better, and have delayed onset of dementia. They get relief from anxiety and mild depression. They perform better at work.
Also, although it’s tempting to flop down on the couch when you’re feeling exhausted, exercise is actually a great way to boost energy levels. Feeling tired is a reason to exercise, not a reason to skip exercise.
But even when you admit that you’d feel better if you exercised, it can be very hard to adopt the habit. My idea of fun has always been to lie in bed, reading, preferably while also eating a snack – but I’ve managed to keep myself exercising over the years by using all these tricks on myself:
Exercise is a KEY to happiness. Research shows that people who exercise are healthier, more energetic, think more clearly, sleep better, and have delayed onset of dementia. They get relief from anxiety and mild depression. They perform better at work.
Also, although it’s tempting to flop down on the couch when you’re feeling exhausted, exercise is actually a great way to boost energy levels. Feeling tired is a reason to exercise, not a reason to skip exercise.
But even when you admit that you’d feel better if you exercised, it can be very hard to adopt the habit. My idea of fun has always been to lie in bed, reading, preferably while also eating a snack – but I’ve managed to keep myself exercising over the years by using all these tricks on myself:
Understanding that many people are suffering from “compassion fatigue,” Angelina Jolie stepped forward on Monday to donate $100,000 to efforts to help the victims of the floods in Pakistan.
While promoting her spy thriller “Salt” in London, Jolie told the Washington Post that she understands “it is getting hard for people – they see Haiti, they see these other events … and they get exhausted by the time another big one rolls around.”
When Jenni Ware found herself unable to locate her wallet as she stood in front of the cash register at Trader Joe’s market, a stranger stepped forward to pay her entire $207 bill.
The next day, Jenni sent a check in the mail for $300 to cover the Good Samaritan’s deed — enclosing an additional $93.
A Facebook discussion propelled Carolee Hazard to give the extra money to a hunger charity.
She also sent $93 of her own money, added to Jenni’s $93, and donated the cash to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties.
But the kindness didn’t stop there. An avalanche of like donations started pouring in from Facebook friends, eventually totaling $100,000 in spontaneous giving.
USA Today reports the two women, who are now good friends, started the 93 Dollar Club on Facebook to collect donations from around the world to feed hungry families in Northern California.
WATCH the video below, or read the report in Huffpost…
When Jenni Ware found herself unable to locate her wallet as she stood in front of the cash register at Trader Joe’s market, a stranger stepped forward to pay her entire $207 bill.
The next day, Jenni sent a check in the mail for $300 to cover the Good Samaritan’s deed — enclosing an additional $93.
A Facebook discussion propelled Carolee Hazard to give the extra money to a hunger charity.
She also sent $93 of her own money, added to Jenni’s $93, and donated the cash to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties.
But the kindness didn’t stop there. An avalanche of like donations started pouring in from Facebook friends, eventually totaling $100,000 in spontaneous giving.
The Rev. Kenneth Haynes knelt in prayer in the baptismal pool inside Main St. Missionary Baptist Church as Hurricane Katrina started to rip apart the roof.
More than 120 members of his congregation who had come to the church for shelter huddled nearby in a multipurpose room on the second floor. The first story of the church already was filled with water and Haynes worried the building might collapse.
Talking about that day five years later, Haynes said God told him, “Stand on your faith, not on your fear.”
The church withstood the storm and has remained a rock for this community as the east Biloxi neighborhood has struggled to recover from the storm. It took weeks for the federal government to organize its recovery plan in east Biloxi, but Haynes said Main Street began immediately, serving three meals a day to survivors in the neighborhood.
(READ the story in USA Today)
Who said you have to be an engineer or a even a designer to come up with a car that gets 100 mpg? How about a group of US high school students in Missouri who designed and built a car that could get up to 450 mpg, with an electric motor that can be plugged into any regular home AC outlet.
Kevin Duley and his high school friends at De LaSalle High School, with the help of an adviser, began with a race car chassis, so don’t expect this car to fit a normal lifestyle. But the project meant more to the students, who have now transformed expectations for their own futures.
WATCH the video below from CNN
Who said you have to be an engineer or a even a designer to come up with a car that gets 100 mpg? How about a group of US high school students in Missouri who designed and built a car that could get up to 450 mpg, with an electric motor that can be plugged into any regular home AC outlet.
Kevin Duley and his high school friends at De LaSalle High School, with the help of an adviser, began with a race car chassis, so don’t expect this car to fit a normal lifestyle. But the project meant more to the students, who have now transformed expectations for their own futures.
Government stimulus spending has put the country on track to double renewable energy production capacity by 2012 and halve solar power costs by 2015, Vice President Joseph Biden said on Tuesday.
President Barack Obama’s stimulus spending poured $814 billion into the U.S. economy, including more than $100 billion for science, technology and innovation projects.
“The government plants the seeds. The private sector nourishes and makes it grow,” Biden said. “And in the process, if we’re as innovative as we’ve been in the past, we launch entire new industries.”
(READ the Reuters report via Newsdaily)
Pakistan thanked the world Friday for opening its wallets and said more than 20 million flood victims now know that nations and people around the globe are standing with them during the worst disaster the country has ever faced.
Pakistan’s U.N. Ambassador Abdullah Haroon said the initial outpouring from some 70 countries was ‘indeed heartening’ and ‘a good beginning,’ reports the AP news service.
As of yesterday, 70 percent of the $460 million initially sought by the UN and its humanitarian partners to provide food, shelter and clean water for to up to 8 million flood victims over the next three months has either been contributed or pledged so far, while another $600 million has been provided or promised outside of that appeal, said John Holmes, who also serves as Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs.
So far UN agencies have reached almost 2 million Pakistanis with emergency food supplies and an estimated 2.5 million with clean drinking water. Medical treatment has been provided to about 3 million people, while more than 115,000 tents and 77,000 tarpaulins have also been distributed.
(DONATE to the UN relief effort at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs at http://ochaonline.un.org)
Former President Jimmy Carter left North Korea this morning having secured the release of Mr. Aijalon Mahli Gomes. Mr. Gomes was imprisoned by Pyongyang officials in January and later sentenced to eight years of hard labor with a fine of about $600,000 for the crime of illegal entry into North Korea.
At the request of President Carter, and for humanitarian purposes, Mr. Gomes was granted amnesty by the Chairman of the National Defense Commission, Kim Jong-Il.
You might have considered Wednesday night’s Major League Baseball game between the Florida Marlins and New York Mets to be just another game, but it meant everythingto Marlins outfielder Logan Morrison and his dad, Tom.
Tom, you see, has been battling inoperable lung cancer. When the 51-year-old non-smoker was diagnosed, his first question to his doctor was whether he’d live long enough to see his son Logan reach the big leagues and get his first hit.
“Logan Morrison was with his father when he received the diagnosis and began sobbing instantly,” says the coverage in the Miami Herald
This week, Tom traveled 30 hours by train to New York and sat in the stands to see Logan hit his first triple. (Watch the highlights of Tom watching the triple at MLB.com.)
(READ more of this story in Yahoo Sports)
While U.S. economic data this summer have tended to suggest that the recovery from the recession is slowing, several releases this month painted a more optimistic picture.
The Federal Reserve said factory output increased 1.1 percent in July, the biggest increase since August 2009. Total industrial production rose 1 percent.
Five honorees took home checks for $36,000 after winning the Teen Tikkun Olam Awards (Hebrew for ‘repair the world’) for being outstanding teen role models in California.
Presented by the Helen Diller Family Foundation, the winners included:
A marine preservation program also that sparked youth-created environmental activist groups from coast to coast also received the award.
This is the fourth consecutive year that the Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards were offered to Jewish teens. Find more winners on the Web, and watch their video (second one) below.
WATCH the video below… (More to read at KGO-TV in San Francisco)
The Diller Family Foundation video below, highlights all five winners in detail:
In 2007, Helen Diller and the Helen Diller Family Foundation created the Tikkun Olam Award program to recognize teens who are exceptional role models in their communities and beyond.
Each year up to five teens from throughout California are awarded $36,000 each for outstanding leadership, community service, and commitment to improving the world.
More than 13 years after his parents drowned in a flash flood, David Kakuko is at the Moruny River, building a bridge that might have prevented their deaths.
The hanging footbridge will provide safe passage over the frequently flooded waterway.
“Before the bridge, there [were] so many people who lost their lives,” said Kakuko, 32. “I know, because I have no parents.”
He and other local residents work with Harmon Parker, an American and master mason who has been building bridges through Kenya’s mountainous terrain since 1997.
“I saw that building a bridge could change lives and transform communities.”
Rap pioneer, Darryl “D.M.C.” McDaniels, better known as one of the founding members of Run-D.M.C., is all about giving back. The 46-year-old recently co-founded Camp Felix — a summer camp intended to provide a getaway for foster kids in upstate New York. With 171 campers from New York City currently attending, the camp has become a beacon for kids looking to establish a sense of family outside of their foster homes.
“These kids say, ‘I am just a foster kid. I have nothing going for me other than just being miserable,” McDaniels told New York Daily News. “I tell them, ‘You are wrong. Your situation doesn’t define who you are.”
(See the latest news from camp, via NY Daily News)
Co-Founded with Sheila Jaffe, Emmy Award-winning Casting Director of “The Sopranos” and “Entourage”, the camp grows out of the fact that both were adopted and have searched for their birth families. They realized how fortunate they were, having been raised by loving families. Things could have gone very differently had they not been adopted.
Sal Khan, you can count Bill Gates as your newest fan. Gates is a voracious consumer of online education. This past spring a colleague e-mailed him about the nonprofit KhanAcademy.org, a vast digital trove of free mini-lectures all narrated by Khan, an ebullient, articulate Harvard MBA and former hedge fund manager.
Gates replied within minutes. “This guy is amazing,” he wrote. “It is awesome how much he has done with very little in the way of resources.” Gates and his 11-year-old son, Rory, began soaking up videos, from algebra to biology.
(READ the rest of this story in CNN Money)
Sal Khan, you can count Bill Gates as your newest fan. Gates is a voracious consumer of online education. This past spring a colleague e-mailed him about the nonprofit KhanAcademy.org, a vast digital trove of free mini-lectures all narrated by Khan, an ebullient, articulate Harvard MBA and former hedge fund manager.
Gates replied within minutes. “This guy is amazing,” he wrote. “It is awesome how much he has done with very little in the way of resources.” Gates and his 11-year-old son, Rory, began soaking up videos, from algebra to biology.
(READ the rest of this story in CNN Money)
WATCH the video: Instructor to the World! – Math, Science Whiz Shares Lessons via YouTube
