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Cafe Serves Up Second Chances to Homeless Youth in Denver
The Purple Door Coffee shop, celebrated on Yelp for its stellar French espresso and unique house blends, is considered one of Denver's best—and not...
Harry Potter Fans and J.K. Rowling Win Deal to Get Child Labor Out of Chocolate
After a four-year campaign by the fan activist group the Harry Potter Alliance and its favorite author, J.K. Rowling, Warner Bros. has relented and...
Peace Corps Volunteers Use Chocolate To Lift Africans from Poverty
Africa produces 70% of the world’s chocolate and 60% of the world’s vanilla crop, yet the continent makes just 1% of finished chocolate bars,...
Finding Homeless People Living in the Woods Motivates Starbucks Manager
A regional manager at Starbucks in Fredericksburg, Virginia discovered that there were homeless people living in the woods behind the shopping malls, where they...
Eat a Chocolate Bar Sustain a Village
Chocolate giant Cadbury says its Dairy Milk bars, sold in the millions, are being Fair Trade certified, yet prices will remain the same....
Green Visionaries Unveil Plan for World’s First Carbon-Neutral, Waste-Free, Car-Free City
Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, is awash in profitable oil reserves yet pouring billions into renewable- and sustainable-energy technologies...
Saving Plants that Save Lives
Unsustainable collection practices are threatening the survival of many of the plant species used in traditional and modern medicines. After three years of collaboration...
Saving the World One Handbag at a Time
Celebrities are at the forefront of the green living movement endorsing hybrid cars, making films that create environmental awareness, and, lately, embracing eco-fashion. New...
Trees For Life, Planting Peace in Palestine
The Olive Co-operative has launched an initiative that offers the public an opportunity to sponsor the planting of olive trees in Palestine.
The new trees...
How a Chocolate Bar Saved a Mayan Community from Destruction
When you see a product marked with the Fair Trade emblem, it means the farmers were paid top dollar for their goods. UK Green...
The Top 100 Best Corporate Citizens of 2006
Business Ethics Magazine has released its annual survey of the "100 Best Corporate Citizens." This year's list is led by Green Mountain Coffee...
Clicks Against Breast Cancer, and Hunger, and Deforestation, and…
My friend Katharine sent me a message that the Breast Cancer Site was having trouble getting enough people to click on their site for...
Good News in History, April 24
Happy 90th Birthday to Shirley MacLaine, the esteemed dancer, actress, writer, and spiritual seeker. A 6-time Academy Award nominee, MacLaine received a nomination for...
Good News in History, April 5
On this day, 26 years ago, the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge opened to traffic linking the City of Kobe on the main island of Honshu, to...
Good News in History, April 3
Happy Birthday to Dame Jane Goodall who turns 90 years old today. The beloved British primatologist first observed chimpanzees creating tools in 1960 (and...
Good News in History, March 25
65 years ago today, Elvis Presley performed live at Pearl Harbor’s Bloch Arena in a benefit for the USS Arizona Memorial. The concert was...
Good News in History, March 19
92 years ago today, the Sydney Harbour Bridge opened in Australia. Spanning Sydney Harbor from the central business district (CBD) to the North Shore,...
Good News in History, March 17
124 years ago today, Isadora Duncan, the first modern dancer, made her debut as a solo interpretive dancer in London to crowds who marveled...
Good News in History, February 22
195 years ago today, Spain sold Florida to the United States as part of the Adams-Onis Treaty. It settled a standing border dispute between...
Good News in History, February 20
208 years ago today, The Barber of Seville, one of Italian opera's greatest classics, debuted at the Teatro Argento in Rome. It tells the story of...