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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,...
12 of The Greatest Things to Love About America
What makes America great? On this, the 235th birthday of the nation's founding Declaration of Independence, it seems like a question we need to...
Going Green by Going Google
From mowing it’s Googleplex headquarters’ lawn with a herd of goats to proposing a $4.68 trillion plan for changing alternative energy policy in the...
Google Helping to Build the World’s Largest Solar Tower Power Plant
In their largest clean energy investment to date, Google will contribute $168 million to the new Ivanpah solar energy power plant under construction in...
Why There’s Never Been a Better Time to be Alive: The Rational Optimist
A British scientist and author of the book, The Rational Optimist, makes the case that mankind's progress has been vigorous, widely spread, and not...
Solar Project Will Power 85,850 Homes for Los Angeles
The largest U.S. producer of crystalline solar power energy Wednesday announced plans to build a massive system to provide solar energy to tens of...
PepsiCo’s Deal With Mexican Farmers Is Good for All
PepsiCo’s work with corn farmers in Jalisco, Mexico, reflects a new approach by corporations trying to maintain a business edge while helping out small...
Miracle of Rebirth for Iraqi’s Garden of Eden (Video)
The vast and ancient wetlands between the Tigress and Euphrates rivers in Iraq is considered by some to be the original Garden of Eden.
It...
US Plucks Tiny Daisy from Brink of Extinction
The tiny Maguire daisy, which grows in the desert southwest of the United States, has been plucked from the edge of extinction after a...
Man Risks Border Crossing to Help Impoverished Farmers Build a Co-op
Jesus Hernandez Arias lay in the Arizona desert, half-blind and freezing.
Dawn was approaching on March 11, 2006. It was cold –- no more than...
Man Risks Border Crossing to Help Impoverished Farmers Build a Co-op
Jesus Hernandez Arias lay in the Arizona desert, half-blind and freezing.
Dawn was approaching on March 11, 2006. It was cold –- no more than...
Urine-Powered Fuel Cells: Pee Power to the People!
Researchers have figured out a way to make the world's first urine-powered fuel cells -- a significant feat, because most fuel cell systems today...
Good News Giggles: Cartoon of the Week
________________________________________________ Jonny Hawkins is a fulltime cartoonist from Sherwood, Michigan where he lives with his wife and...
FARC Guerrillas Release Hostage After 12 Years
A soldier held hostage for more than 12 years was freed by Colombian rebels Tuesday, the International Red Cross said. The...
22 Year-old Rows Across the Atlantic for Clean Water Cause
Katie Spotz is a 22 year-old endurance athlete rowing across the Atlantic Ocean. Alone.
Endurance is her strong suit, she's run 150 miles across the...
Undertaker Discovers Man Still Alive in Coffin
As the lid of his coffin was about to be sealed, Josef Guzy’s grieving widow made one last request for her late husband’s necklace.
The...
Poetry for the Soul in First Afghan National Park
Band-e-Amir, a vast expanse of amazingly blue lakes set in austere desert cliffs, nearly 3,000 meters (10,000 feet) high in the Hindu Kush mountains,...
Researchers Get Drinking Water From Air Humidity
Scientists in Stuttgart have found a way of obtaining drinking water from air humidity. The system is based on solar collectors, making it...
Western Saharan Refugees Reach out to World via Video
In the Dakhla refugee camp in the middle of the Algerian desert, refugees from Western Sahara have found a way to feel...
Special Report: The Best News for Planet Earth in Decades
I asked one question to leading environmentalists who are usually keen to point out what is wrong with the environment: What is...