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Ingenious Gates-Funded Machine Turns Feces Into Drinking Water
He watched the piles of feces go up the conveyer belt and drop into a large bin. A few minutes later, after a machine...
No Supermarkets, But 130 Community Gardens to Help Nourish a City
"Although Mike Devlin was trained as a lawyer, his love for gardening led him down an unexpected career path."
Devlin lives and works in Camden...
Women Activists Clean Up and Revitalize Libyan City
In downtown Benghazi, a dark and deserted park is now bustling with life. Fathers and mothers bring their children to play on the new...
Fog Catchers Pull Water From Air in Chile’s Dry Fields
Where the cold waters of the Humboldt current meet the dry hot air along northern Chile, a thick fog rises up off the Pacific and...
Pool Repairman Brings Drowned Prairie Dog Back to Life (WATCH)
Rick Gruber said he would do the same for anybody.
In this case, the drowning victim last month was a tiny prairie dog (or a...
Giant Solar Farm Uses Molten Salt to Keep Power Flowing
Renewable energy could help underpin the grid now that the world’s biggest concentrated solar storage plant is up and running in Arizona. It's a...
Husband In Pink Tutu Still Helping Breast Cancer Patients (New Film)
In March 2012 we featured the story of a man wearing pink tutus and making brilliant photographs for his wife, who had been diagnosed...
Capturing Energy From Earth’s Emissions for Renewable Power
When the sun sets on a remote desert outpost and solar panels shut down, what energy source will provide power through the night? A...
Soldier Who Suffered Severe Injuries in Iraq Inspires Town with Positive Attitude
When Jerral Hancock came home from the Iraq war missing one arm and a paralyzed body that was burned all over, he was a...
Hiker Hero Finds Wounded Pitbull, Carries Him Down the Mountain
No one knows exactly how long the 2-year-old pit bull had been left to die alone in the Arizona mountains. This photo taken by...
The Gangsta Gardener of South Central L.A.
A Los Angeles-based fashion designer is starting an urban garden revolution in his neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles. Instead of vacant lots --...
Football Players Defend Special-needs Student from Bullying
In the scrub-brush desert town of Queen Creek, Ariz., high school bullies were throwing trash at sophomore Chy Johnson. Calling her "stupid." Pushing her...
White House Unveils Solar Incentive Plan for Federal Lands
The Obama administration unveiled plans Tuesday to ramp up solar energy production, offering incentives for solar developers to cluster projects on 285,000 acres of...
Utah Hiker Survives With Broken Leg and No Food
The hunger and pain weren't the worst of Victoria Grover's ordeal as she shivered alone for four days with a broken leg and no...
Iceland’s Volcanoes May Power UK
The volcanoes of Iceland could soon be pumping low-carbon electricity into the UK under government-backed plans for thousands of miles of cables across the...
New Muppet on Sesame Street Struggles With Hunger
Not since the cute, yellow HIV-positive Muppet premiered in 2009 on Sesame Street in South Africa has a new character from the Workshop taken...
Burning Man Plans To Revitalize a Depressed San Francisco Neighborhood
The Burning Man festival -- where people meet once-a-year in the Nevada desert for a hedonistic experiment in self-reliance, innovation and art -- has...
Man Raises Money to Offer Busloads of Veggies to a Neighborhood Without Produce
For folks living in West Chicago, it is hard to find fresh fruits and vegetables for sale, which is why one man took it...
Horses Abused and Abandoned by Drug Traders Rescued Year Round by Arizona Ranch
When horses are brought to Karen Pomroy's ranch in the Arizona desert they are starving, scared, and unwanted. But, at Jumpin' Jack ranch, the...
New All-organic Carpets Could Have Multiple Lives
In our increasingly recycling-aware society, a carpet is one of those things that usually does not get re-used - it is simply thrown away,...