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Bamboo Bikes, Ghana's Green Transport (w/ Video)

A new kind of bicycle, lightweight and sturdy, made from the abundant bamboo in the forests of Ghana is making life easier for farmers and villagers who cannot afford cars and trucks.

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Ghana's Incredible Path Out of Hunger and Poverty

Ghana is on track to be the first country in Africa to achieve Millennium Development Goal for halving poverty and hunger by 2015. Between 1990 and 2004, Ghana outperformed all other countries worldwide, reducing hunger by 75 percent.

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'Airbnb' for Refugees Matches Migrants To Europeans Volunteering Homes

European citizens got tired of their governments failing to help Syrian refugees, so they took matters into their own hands using the Airbnb model.

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Happy Taxpayers Group Focuses on the Good

A new group in Helsinki, Finland encourages taxpayers to focus on the good provided by public services, rather than dwelling on negative thoughts about income tax.

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Air Conditioners Not Needed in Helsinki With Huge New Underground Reservoir

Helsinki, Finland is pioneering a huge cooling system that will use cold water from its lakes instead of electricity-powered air conditioning.

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Iraqi Community Leaders Talk Peace in Finland

"Sunni and Shiite leaders from Iraq met in Finland on Friday to study past peace processes to see if lessons can be learned to end Iraq's inter-communal violence, Finnish officials said."

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How One Man Planted a Million Trees (Video)

Gashaw Tahir, an American citizen, traveled back to his birth country of Ethiopia to find the green hills that surrounded his home eroded and stripped bare from deforestation. So he decided to do something extraordinary: Plant one million trees for Ethiopia

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Britain offers Ethiopia $260 mln to fight poverty

Britain said on Thursday it will give Ethiopia 133 million pounds (2.5 billion birr) this year to help the Horn of Africa country try to achieve the U.N. Millennium Development Goals, sending 1 million children to school and buying three million mosquito nets.