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From Motown to Growtown: Urban Gardens Revitalize City and Feed Poor

Taja Sevelle's Urban Farming program transformed hundreds of acres of vacant land in the city into 190 gardens blooming across the country and abroad, providing fresh produce to an estimated 50,000 people, some of whom desperately need it.

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New Way of Growing Rice Could Help Solve World Food Crisis

Professor Norman T. Uphoff of Cornell University is advocating a new way of growing rice in hopes of helping to solve the world food crisis.

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Happy in Horse Poop: The Entremanureal Journey

I didn't make a plan to save critters in need, but that is the path my life has taken. My passion for animals went all the way back to when I was four years old. For months, I stole rags from under Mom's kitchen sink. I made little beds for stray cats, injured rabbits and […]

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Community Pulls Together to Build Home for Cancer Patient

After a cancer patient's plea to Extreme Home Makeover to help her build a new house for her family of six, her community pulled together to grant the wish that the show couldn't.

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US Communities Build Earthquake Safe School in China

Members of the Chinese community in Oklahoma and West Virginia have decided to take direct action to help children whose schools crumbled in the May Earthquake in China by building a new safe school

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Britain's Oldest Man at 112 Years Has Great Memory (Video)

Henry Allingham, Britain's oldest man, thought to be one of three surviving UK World War I veterans, is celebrating his 112th birthday.

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Blind Iraqi Girl to See Mom for the First Time Thanks to US Troops

US troops are helping a blind iraqi girl who needs surgery. She will be able to see her mother for the first time thanks to a world-class surgeon and the American soldiers who wanted to help and found donations.

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Sanctuary Rescues Lions From Concrete Pens

Nine cubs, and an adult lion and a tiger, rescued from bleak Romanian zoos sniffed the grass and began purring loudly, taking their first steps onto African soil, thanks to Austrian-based animal welfare organisation Vier Pfoten (Four Paws). (NBC News)