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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...
Newly Approved Bird Repellant Saves Corn and Cranes
A ten-year cooperative effort has finally yielded a clever solution to solve the conflict between corn farmers and the endangered sandhill cranes that eat...
9/11 Widows Help Afghanistan War Widows
Susan Retik and Patti Quigley - both pregnant when their husbands were killed in the Sept. 11 attacks - decided to donate a large...
Plastic Shopping Bags Made of Corn and Biodegradable
With the new reality of $70 (US) crude oil, the plastics industries are turning to corn and fast-growing switchgrass to manufacture everything from carpet...
Transforming a Barren Savannah to a Tropical Rainforest: The Remarkable story of Las Graviotas
EARTH DAY SPECIAL — Imagine miles and miles of desolate savannah in South America, without a tree or bird in sight, a veritable no-man's land....
Homes for Convicted Prostitutes Transforming Women’s Lives
Magdalene is a two-year sanctuary for women with a criminal history of prostitution and drug abuse. It provides safety, discipline, and "an unconditional love...
Green TV Launches
We have a Food Network, a Style Network, a Shopping channel, why not a Green channel? The world's first online 'green' television channel launched...
Water for Life
He remembers how the people reacted when he came to drill a well for them. “People just mobbed me and cried.”
Willis Miller believes in...
Small Migrant Group Wins Fairer Treatment
Farm Laborers Win Fairer Wages, Protections from Fast Food Company Even though this story is nearly eight months old, it is a...
Beating the Odds: A Tale Of A Single Parent
What do you do when the odds are against you? When statistics predict failure in spite of your best intentions, how do you react?...
Good Samaritan Aids Traveler on his way to Damascus
Jackie Wilson drove into a Falls Church, Virginia shopping mall when for no apparent reason her attention locked on a young black man in...
Congress Votes Overwhelmingly to Restore Everglades
The House and Senate overwhelmingly approved a $7.8 billion project to restore the Florida Everglades and undo a half-century of human impact.
Rep. Clay Shaw,...
Michigan CEO Splits $128Mil Among Employees
Workers in Belleville, Michigan will never forget hometown businessman Bob Thompson, who sold his successful asphalt paving business for $422 million.
He paid the taxes...
Give a Gift That Will Feed Hungry Kids For Years To Come
Do you want to give an imaginative gift and feed hungry children in Chicago or Shanghai at the same time? Now you can give...
All the Good Things About You
He was in the first third grade class I taught at Saint Mary's School in Morris, Minn. All 34 of my students were dear...
UPS Sends Senior Managers Into Hell’s Kitchen to Help Poor
Call it a crash course in “The Shocking Facts of Life 101”, when United Parcel Service executives from around the country are air-dropped into...
Operation Smile Turning Disfigured Faces into Smiling Faces
In 16 years, Operation Smile has treated over 45,000 children and young adults with deformities in the U.S. and abroad, offering hope and changing...
83-Year-Old Reconnects Two Koreas
The founder of the Hyundai conglomerate, a self-made billionaire who left North Korea in 1933 at the age of 18 to seek his fortune,...
Paper Companies Find Substitute for Trees
Weyerhaeuser, International Paper and Crane are experimenting with non-wood papers, which reduces deforestation, involves fewer pesticides, bleaches, and chemicals, and may create jobs in...
Tiny Mite Saves African Crops
Crop yields of Cassava, the main staple in the diets of 200 million Africans have rebounded since the introduction of a mite from across...