The Harvard Graduate Finding Tech Jobs for World's Poorest People
As a Harvard graduate, she has started a non-profit organization to find low-level tech jobs for the world's poorest citizens.
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This is the 10th Summer Warren Buffett Has Donated Over $1Bil to Charity
Warren Buffett's summer tradition of giving continued with a gift of $2.8 billion to foundations that work on global health, scholarships, and poverty.
Canadians Can Now Use Frequent Flyer Miles To Pay For College
HigherEdPoints lets people swap their Air Canada frequent flyer miles for certificates to pay for tuition, fees and loans at 70 colleges and universities.
Turkish Tech Firm Does Something Epic With $27 Million From Its Sale
Sometimes, hard work really does pay off. For a group 100 loyal employees at a recently sold Turkish Tech company, it resulted in the surprise of their lives.
Sweet News From US Beekeepers: Colony Numbers At 20-Year High
Beekeepers have changed the ways they're managing their hives and there are now more honeybee colonies than at any time since 1994.
World's First Malaria Vaccine Approved - and it Will Be Not-for-Profit
The world's first malaria vaccine has been approved by EU officials. The nonprofit drug may help more than 400,000 young children who die yearly from the disease.
15 Big Companies Launch Plan to Hire 100K Youth from Poor Neighborhoods
A new coalition of large companies are teaming up to boost job training for youth in low-income neighborhoods and help them get hired for 100,000 good jobs.
Beaming Education From Space to World's Poorest, Remote Places
A company is using satellites to deliver free data to the whole world, where four billion people still don't have Internet connections.
United Awards Hackers Millions of Miles for Finding Security Risks
United Airlines has awarded millions of frequent flier miles to "bug bounty" hunters who discovered vulnerabilities in the company's web security.
New U.S. Plan for Solar Power Will Light Up Low-Income Homes
Solar power for low-income housing and apartment renters is part of a broad White House plan to expand solar energy with the help of private partners.
Coca-Cola Creates Innovative 'Plastic' Bottle Made Entirely From Plants
Coke has unveiled a plastic bottle made from 100% plant materials leftover from the sugarcane manufacturing process.
Biotechnology Firm Run By Teens Wants to Use Mosquitoes to Carry Vaccines
Provita Pharmaceutical is working on a project (with funding from the Gates Foundation) to use mosquitoes to help carry vaccines against the West Nile Virus. And, everyone on the 15-plus person Provita team, from research and development workers to finance officers, is under the age of 18 and still in high school.Read More
China Gives the World a Cheap Vaccine for a Child-killing Disease
An announcement this week confirmed China as a world leader in creating life-saving, inexpensive vaccines for the world. A Chinese manufacturer earned the World Health Organization's stamp of approval for its quality production of the first practical vaccine for use in the developing world against Japanese encephalitis, a disease spread by mosquitoes that kills15,000 children every year and leaves thousands more with brain damage and paralysis.
Tibetan Antelope, China Railway, Co-exist in Harmony
The sight this spring of herds of Tibetan antelopes galloping unhindered to breeding grounds at the other side of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, alleviated concerns that the railway would disrupt their migratory-breeding route.
Green Sports Alliance Reduces Waste & Toxic Chemicals in Games Worldwide
A burgeoning movement to make sports more sustainable has signed up 300 professional and college teams and venues to play ball with the environment.
Lego Spends Millions To Ditch Oil-Based Plastic
Lego's half century of toy dominance was built on petroleum-based plastic. But now the company is investing millions into trying to get rid of it.
Airline Plays April Fools Joke on Canadian Families
An announcement by WestJet on Sunday seemed too good to be true, especially for parents traveling with little kids. And considering it was made on April 1, it was. On April Fools Day, the airline issued a statement saying it would start introducing child-free cabins on certain flights with an exciting VIP area for kids beneath the plane called, Kargo Kids.
Bell Canada Erecting Cellphone Towers Disguised as Trees
Ontario residents on holiday to the cottage country may think some of the trees are growing on steroids, but they're actually Bell Canada cellphone towers. The telecommunications company plans to disguise towers it erects in the Muskoka area to look like trees so they are not such a direct eyesore.
Hundreds of Executives and Officials Sleep Outside, Raising Millions for Homeless Teens
In 12 cities across two countries, nearly 500 business executives, advocates and celebrities slept outside on the streets in freezing temperatures Thursday night to let homeless kids know they matter. The decades-old Covenant House was able to raise more than 11 million dollars in conjunction with events held across North America.
By Planting a Garden, Community Changes The Neighborhood
With shovels, rakes, and hoes in hand, the women of a Mississauga housing complex transformed a vacant piece of land into a bountiful garden that grew into a small business and changed their neighborhood.
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