Solar-Powered Desalination Device Will Turn Sea Water Into Fresh Water For 400,000 People
A shipping-container hosting the world's first zero-emissions, solar powered desalination technology is bringing clean water to rural Kenya.
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Rubber Made From Dandelions is Making Tires More Sustainable - Truly a Wondrous Plant
In the quest for more sustainable products, dandelions are being used to produce award-winning rubber for tires named Taraxagum, for the species.
Innovative Plant Recycles Polystyrene Foam and Recover Valuable Resources, Using All-Wind Power
PolyStyreneLoop, a huge new recycling plant in the Netherlands is starting to recycle expanded polystyrene (EPS) waste in Europe.
Nigerian Homes Built From Thousands of Plastic Bottles -12x Stronger Than Brick And Earthquake Strong
Called brick bottle technology, mud houses in Nigeria are being built with plastic bottles for a third of the price, but 18 times stronger.
Elderly Black Women Celebrate High Court Victory For Equal Property Rights in Divorces, Averting Homelessness
Four brave women in South Africa have successfully overturned a set of apartheid-era marriage laws that denied them equal property rights.
A Love Letter to America From a Village in Bangladesh on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11
Rezaul Karim Reza first heard about the USA on 9/11 and became compelled to learn her language and customs as he reached out to Americans.
Their Dream Home Tipped as They Pulled It Across the Water - Then Neighbors Came to the Rescue
If a place that truly floated your boat was about to be torn down, you could try to move heaven and earth to save it-or, you could just move the house. And that's just what one determined couple did-but they didn't take an overland route, they went by sea. Daniele Penney fell in love with […]
Inventor of Hand-Cranked Washing Machine is Distributing the Low-Cost Device to Refugees
The inventor of a hand-cranked washing machine named Navjot Sawhney has traveled to Iraq to distribute it to refugees in the country.
Couple Gives $100 Million to Conservation of 57,000 Square Miles of African Protected Areas
The Rob and Melani Walton Foundation gave African Parks, which manages 19 protected areas on the continent, a donation of $100,000,000.
Jane Goodall Enlists Fans to Help Plant a Trillion Trees Around the World by 2030
Jane Goodall launched Trees for Jane aimed at helping replenish the world's stock of trees and forests by planting a trillion trees by 2030.
World's First 5-Nation Reserve Spans 4,000 Sq-Miles in Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia: 'The Amazon of Europe'
UNESCO has Designated by Mura Drava Danube Transboundary Reserve after a decade of advocacy, creating a 5-nation reserve "Amazon of Europe".
Charity Rescues So Much Food From Landfill, It Opens a 'Pay What You Feel' Grocery Store To Share Tons of Produce
At "Pay what you Feel" prices, the Rescued Food Market in Vancouver has a simple mission: To get 70,000 pounds of rescued food a month a home
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