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17 Bears Rescued From Concrete Cages Now Roam on 60 Acres
No matter what you think of PETA, this animal rescue story will warm your heart.
Thanks to PETA, the Simpsons co-creator Sam Simon, and the...
Ancient Roman Concrete Reveals Secret to Cutting Carbon Emissions
The chemical secrets of a concrete Roman breakwater that has spent the last 2,000 years submerged in the Mediterranean Sea have been uncovered by...
Young Indonesians Green Their Concrete City
Young Indonesians are breathing new life into their polluted concrete capital city with little more than buckets of soil and seeds.
A group of mostly...
Twelve Concrete Ways To Live A ‘Compassionate Life’ – Karen Armstrong
From Confucius to Oprah, people have preached compassion for centuries. But how often is it put into practice? Karen Armstrong believes religion should advocate...
Pollution-Eating Concrete Clears Roadway Air
Researchers at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands have tested pollution-eating concrete on about 1,000 square meters of roads in the...
Transforming Abandoned Concrete Bunkers Into Eco Hostels
There are reportedly thousands of abandoned concrete bunkers scattered throughout Albania, remnants of a Communist dictator's paranoia. Now graduate students have developed a plan...
Sanctuary Rescues Lions From Concrete Pens
Nine cubs, and an adult lion and a tiger, rescued from bleak Romanian zoos sniffed the grass and began purring loudly, taking their first...
High above the Concrete are Green Patches of Heaven
You might have to crane your neck to see the most exciting thing happening in places like Kansas City -- in the city and...
Bill Gates Filled a Pothole With Modern Asphalt Made of Carbon–Captured During Clean Hydrogen Process
Bill Gates has shared a video of himself filling a pothole with Modern Asphalt.
The road repair material is made with carbon that has been...
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...
Premiere of Innovative Low-Carbon Cement: Will ‘Be in That Building for Decades to Come’
Two firms in Boston have just laid the foundations of a large building using a USA-made zero-carbon cement mixture, representing one of the first...
Coffee Grounds Show Potential to Clean Up Common Water Contamination from Agriculture
Coffee grounds have been tested in a laboratory setting for their potential use as a cleanup agent of common agricultural runoff, suggesting that along...
Good News in History, March 27
76 years ago today, a mere 11 days after being released from prison, jazz singer Billie Holiday played in front of a sold-out crowd...
New Sustainable Florida Homes Survived Hurricane–as Nearby Homes Were Devastated–and Never Lost Power
These cute little Florida townhomes are tougher than they look. While they may be as green as a budding daffodil, they have a backbone...
Good News in History, December 30
133 years ago today, the American author, recordist, and expatriate Paul Bowles, was born. Living in Tangier, Morocco for 47 years, Bowles would publish...
Restaurants Find Companies to Take Their Spent Oyster Shells to Restore Oyster Reefs
For everything that Hong Kong is and has become, a quiet constant among the rattle of construction and the sprawl of concrete, steel, and...
Dominica Financed 2,000 Hurricane-Proof Homes for Locals by Offering Citizenship to Foreigners Who Invest
In 2017, the Caribbean nation of Dominica needed to think of some way to recover from Hurricane Maria which devastated the whole of the...
Among China’s Gray State-Run Schools, New Campus Wins World Building of the Year for ‘Blurring inside and outside’
Set amid the rows of identical block apartments in the background, Huizhen High School is a breath of positive air for the students of...
Good News in History, December 8
100 years ago today, a sign was erected in the California hills advertising a new housing project called "Hollywoodland." Real estate developers Woodruff and...
First Fully-Electric MLS Soccer Stadium Being Built in New York City Could Transform the Whole Neighborhood
New York City Football Club (NYCFC) recently revealed their proposal for a new soccer stadium in Willets Point, Queens, that would be totally electric,...