PepsiCo this week unveiled the world's first PET plastic bottle made entirely from plant-based, fully renewable resources, enabling the company to manufacture a beverage container with a significantly reduced carbon footprint.
Kickstarter, a website designed to fund creative projects through the support of small online donations, crowned its first millionaire this week: Casey Hopkins, an engineer based in Portland, Ore., who invented the world's best iPhone dock.
Good news for American households: No need to keep digging for one- and two-cent stamps after a postal rate hike. The US Postal Service has announced that all new first-class stamps will be Forever Stamps beginning next month
Warren Buffett, the world's second richest man - who's now worth $44 billion - will start giving away 85% of his wealth in July - most of it to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Niagara Falls is the latest municipality to offer incentives for people to move there. And the city of 51,000 residents says even a small influx will make a big difference. Applicants who are chosen will get up to $7,000 to pay back student loans, if they move to downtown Niagara Falls for two years.
A Denver businessman devised a new way to help the homeless, after his car ran out of gas on the corner where a lonely man daily holds a sign that says, 'Homeless, Cold, and Hungry'. The man dropped his sign and helped push the car out of the intersection. Chris Rezac holds a different sign today, one that advertises realtor Joe Manzaneres's business, and his life has changed because of the new and guaranteed income.
A program designed to support 15 social entrepreneurs with a free residence in the historic Halcyon House in Georgetown is accepting application until May 7.
Sometimes, corporations actually bring their know-how and human capital to bear on a problem, instead of just giving money to a cause. The global pharmaceutical company Abbott is a shining example, working to combat severe malnutrition in Haiti by manufacturing a high-protein, high-calorie fortified peanut paste.
Startups like Food Cowboy, founded by Richard and Roger Gordon, see wasted food as a business opportunity. Some, like CropMobster, are using Craigslist or Twitter so that people who have crops or surplus they can't use, can post the availability to others who can divert it to better use.
The nation's largest environmental organization last week announced a new partnership with Sungevity to help families switch to solar easily and affordably. The win-win program will help consumers save money on electric bills and cut their carbon footprint with its Zero Down solar leasing program that gives $750 cash to both the homeowner and the Sierra Club.
Gross domestic product grew at a 3.2 percent annual rate in fourth-quarter 2010, up from a 2.6 percent pace in the third quarter, the Bureau of Economic Analysis just reported.
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