Retired tech executive Patrick O'Sullivan, moved by the plight of the Masai that needed 3 years to complete a school for their children, raised the money and materials to build a school that runs day and night on solar panels.
The owners of the all-natural One World Cafe in Salt Lake City have adopted a "pay what you can" philosophy doing their part to end hunger in America...
Wellspring bed and breakfast for the homeless has been around for 25 years, since a group of friends at church decided to buy a historic residence to share with homeless families.
"For 50 years, Britain's Peter Ashton has been studying â€" and trying to preserve â€" a wealth of diversity in Asia's tropical forests." (CS Monitor)
"A Malaysian man paying a late-night visit to the toilet has saved about 100 people from being buried in the rubble of their homes, reports say."
Pushpa Basnet, a Nepalese woman who runs a home for children so they don't have to live behind bars with their incarcerated parents, was named the 2012 CNN Hero of the Year on Sunday night. She was in her twenties when she started a home in Kathmandu where children can receive education, food, medical care and a chance to live a more normal life.
The Greeks never used to have hero issues. But heroes have been in short supply in the country's hour of need, which could explain the rush to cinemas to spend time in the company of an 18th-century pirate turned caviar tycoon.
According to Dr. Marc Bekoff Ph.D., emotions like joy, love, empathy, compassion, kindness, and grief can readily be shared by improbable friends including predators and prey such as a cat and a bird, a snake and a hamster, and a lioness and a baby oryx.
My 15-year internet career choice of focusing on good news has become a philosophy for the rest of my life. To mark the website's 15th anniversary, I launched a contest called What 'Good News' Means to Me. I now have my four winners to whom we will be delivering four fantastic prizes this week.
Although a teen was killed in a hit-and-run crash, his heart is now giving his ailing friend a chance to live. When Kyle Wilkerson heard the good news, that doctors had a heart for the Maryland teenager, he had a suspicion. The 15-year-old looked up at the cardiologist and asked, Is it Skylar's heart?
After hearing the shocking figure that up to 40 percent of produce goes to waste in the fields, Christy Porter founded Hidden Harvest an organization that employs the working poor to rescue farmers' leftover produce to feed the hungry.
A weed called Kenaf can sequester huge amounts of carbon permanently while lifting villagers out of poverty by providing both protein-rich food and super-insulated building materials. A retired building contractor is working with the fast-growing, carbon-sucking plant that can grow 14 feet in a single year.
The Holiday Inn Shanghai - Pudong Kangqiao features a cantilevered swimming pool that hangs over the building giving swimmers a bird's eye view onto the street more than 250 feet below. This gives guests a delirious sense of swimming in the sky -- they can see the street clearly down below while passers-by on Xiuyan Lu can see the swimmers way up above.
Niagara Falls is the latest municipality to offer incentives for people to move there. And the city of 51,000 residents says even a small influx will make a big difference. Applicants who are chosen will get up to $7,000 to pay back student loans, if they move to downtown Niagara Falls for two years.
A Denver businessman devised a new way to help the homeless, after his car ran out of gas on the corner where a lonely man daily holds a sign that says, 'Homeless, Cold, and Hungry'. The man dropped his sign and helped push the car out of the intersection. Chris Rezac holds a different sign today, one that advertises realtor Joe Manzaneres's business, and his life has changed because of the new and guaranteed income.
About 1 in 150 babies are born infected with a common virus that can cause permanent hearing loss, but newborns aren't routinely tested to see if they have it. That could change because a new study found a simple saliva test can identify babies at risk.
2012 has been the strongest year yet for the U.S. wind energy. The success of the federal Production Tax Credit and wind energy's increased affordability are helping drive wind turbine installations to record levels in 2012, said the American Wind Energy Association.
In what is a 'rags to riches' story, Chanda Zaveri fled from the pressures of getting married at 17 and returned home 30 years later as a millionaire. Born in a conservative Marwari family, her mother wanted to force her into a marriage that she did not want and a life that she did not choose.
The last surviving Ellis Island Ferry is now a beautiful residence for a New York couple. Christened the Yankee Ferry, it was used to transport immigrants from their incoming ships to Ellis Island, giving many their first sight of the new world.
Sometimes, corporations actually bring their know-how and human capital to bear on a problem, instead of just giving money to a cause. The global pharmaceutical company Abbott is a shining example, working to combat severe malnutrition in Haiti by manufacturing a high-protein, high-calorie fortified peanut paste.
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