Actor Brad Pitt announced the winners of the Sustainable Design Competition for New Orleans yesterday. The housing plan will incorporates the newest sustainable technologies to cut pollution and energy costs by up to 50% and provides for a community center, walkway and garden.
On March 31, Bon Jovi delivered $200,000 to fund an additional two homes through his partnership that began in June 2005, broke ground last October, and will build six homes in Philadelphia through Summer ’06.
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Rescuers in Chile are freeing 33 miners who have been trapped more than a half-kilometer underground for 69 days.
The Artemis Accords, which have already been supported by several global space agencies, build upon the same values of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967.
An organic, green revolution, largely unnoticed, is well under way in Cuba -- essentially unprecedented both within the developed and undeveloped world -- establishing a self-sustaining system of agriculture that by necessity is essentially organic.
Workers at the famous crowdfunding site Kickstarter became one of the first hi-tech workforces to unionize, creating Kickstarter United to ensure fairness.
The World Health Organization reported that malaria deaths fell last year to the lowest level ever recorded.
Virile Barber Shop in Jersey City took over the selling of pretzels and wie at local restaurant Wí¼rstbar after a staff member got COVID.
Tuskegee, Alabama, and South Berwick, Maine are Sister Cities healing the racial divide between their all-White and all-Black towns.
NASA and SpaceX launched 4 astronauts to the ISS propelling them to space with world's first reusable rocket by Elon Musk.
Wisconsin's Adolfo Melendez, owner of Tex-Mex restaurant El Mezcal, has given $2,000 in advertising money to his competition to help them.
Efforts to finish the Great Green Wall in Africa, which is halting desertification and poverty near the Sahara, got a $14 Billion boost.
Phoenix, Arizona has managed to save dozens of farms and restaurants, while also giving free meals to hungry folks citywide.
Kazi Mannan posted a GoFundMe for his D.C. restaurant Sakina Halal Grill, that's been struggling in the pandemic. It's raised over $330k.
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Athlete David Brown is the only blind person ever to run 100 meters in under 11 seconds-an inspiring new film Untethered shows how he did it.
Amid an expanse of undulating Iowa farmland and Catholic and Lutheran churches, the town of Elkader bears the name of a Muslim hero. Abd el-Kader was renowned in the 19th century for leading Algeria's fight for independence and protecting non-Muslims from persecution. Even Abraham Lincoln extolled him. This weekend, for the fifth year in a row, Elkader will welcome a delegation of Arab dignitaries to celebrate this rare lifeline of tolerance.
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