Instead of building new apartments, cities could make housing more affordable for city dwellers by taxing the thousands of homes that go unoccupied.
Project Connect, or Proposition A as Austin voters passed it as, will create a $7 billion public transit revolution in the state capitol.
The Green Saudi and Green Middle-East initiatives, announced by Saudi officials, aim to plant 50 billion trees and drastically cut emissions.
To celebrate Dark Sky Week, some of the best International Dark Sky Parks near major U.S. cities.
Announced on Wednesday by the Italian Cultural Minister, cruise liners will no longer be able to enter the Giudecca Canal in Venice's center.
TAZO Tea is teaming up with American Forests to create the TAZO Tree Corps, a special workforce to plant trees in low income neighborhoods
6 cities and one very special state are offering handsome incentives to attract talented workers in various ways: often involving grants.
The cities of Houston, Dallas, and Philadelphia bring Lights Out bird friendly initiatives to turn off outdoor lights during migrations.
The startup Cycloponics is growing 100-200 kilos of mushrooms a week in underground parking lots in Paris, Strasbourg, and Bordeaux.
A beautiful, riverside city known for its sunsets, Natchez, Mississippi will pay you a monthly stipend and relocation costs to move there.
The VITAE project featuring a wrap around vineyard and outdoor walkway on via Serio, Milan won the Reinventing Cities Contest.
In the NEOM Business Hub, Saudi Arabia has announced the start of construction on The Line, a zero carbon tech-driven city of the future.
A mountain of tires 42 million strong will be replaced with a smart, green city in the deserts of Kuwait as they try to plan for post-oil.
The €1.00 House Project in Italy has 44 beautiful old country towns offering houses for one euro to anyone who will renovate them.
Despite being discouraged by local authorities, this man has been applauded for filling in some particularly nasty potholes in his hometown.
Designs have included parks, cultural and event spaces, stargazing platforms, and water catchment areas or gardens.
The practice of "stubble burning" on India's farmlands are the major reason for her air pollution. This simple spray could solve that.
During this cold and flu season, The Joy Team of Vancouver, Washington, has erected a billboard in downtown Portland reminding everyone of that ancient holistic prescription that's not only free, but also effective: hugging. Just in time for Random Acts of Kindness Week (Feb. 9-16) and Valentine's Day (Feb. 14), the fifth in a series of monthly positive messages went up suggesting that onlookers, Hug someone today.
Boe Kirner, who now lives in Perth, Australia, wrote on the Good News Network Page, after seeing the photo washed blankets for the homeless: The 21-year-old New Zealander was in New York City doing a 6 month stint as a paramedic when she met a homeless boy to whom she gave her house key. The kindness shown might have dramatically changed two lives.
Mr. Rogers offered a famous answer to the question of what to tell children when scary things happen on the news. It holds true for all of us if we want to learn about what happened in Boston yesterday: Look for the helpers. We can always focus on the actions of the helpers, if we want to feel better.
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