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The Dubai Metro stations are being turned into art museums to display artworks and creations from different themes and cultures, by order of the city's royal sheikh. The trains will also be decorated inside and out to reflect the project.
Californians can now breath a little easier, according to a report released at the end of 2015 stating that smog is continuing to clear up. During 2015's peak summer season, California had 82 high smog days - twelve percent fewer than the previous year with its tally of 92. According to the Air Quality Management District, […]
In the first week of Seattle's bike-share program, the 500 green bikes were rented around 4,000 times with 1,450 cyclists signing up as member, according to Pronto Cycle Share's executive director.
A pastor decided to turn a food desert into 50,000 pounds of produce for the poor in his community, teaching his church to raise the crops and pay it forward.
This app will let friends and family keep an eye on you through your smartphone's GPS if you have to walk home alone.
New York City's bright lights attract millions of tourists, but they'll lure fewer birds–which is a good thing for endangered songbirds that travel up the East Coast annually.
The city of Chicago started a summer jobs program for public high school students living in high-crime, low-income neighborhoods. Officials hoped it might curb other social ills, like crime rates, that rise when there's no work to be found. A new study hails it as a success.
These "Guerrilla Grafters" splice fruit-bearing limbs on ornamental trees provide fresh fruit for people walking down the street.
A plan to plant one million trees in New York City has reached its goal two years ahead of schedule.
Dallas decided to assist developers in cleaning up a 72-acre toxic mess at the city's core and build their new stadium there...
This 24-year-old hero left his job at J.P. Morgan to start a nonprofit that has saved 100,000 pounds of good food for delivery to homeless shelters in NYC.
In just an hour, after the popular photography blog, Humans of New York, posted a plea to help fund field trips to Harvard for an inner city school, 6000 people donated, rocketing the campaign past its goal of $100,000. And, the total has been growing for five days to reach almost a million dollars. It all started with a photo of a little black boy from the neighborhood, who said his hero was the school's principal.
Hannah Hawkins, founder of the Children of Mine Youth Center, gives kids of all ages a safe place to learn and play, fenced off from the mean streets of Washington D.C. Those streets are where, in the '70s, her husband was robbed and murdered. She decided to dedicate her life to making a positive change in her community. After many years operating only with volunteers, she received a $50,000 check from 5-hour Energy Helps.
After Lisa Fitzpatrick found her street blocked by police tape when someone her daughter knew had been killed, she knew she had to do something. She quit her job, downsized her life and created the APEX Youth Center (Always Pursuing Excellence). Since 2010, more than 460 children and youth have come for the free pizza and fun, and in the process learned conflict resolution skills.
Wall Street hedge fund manager and billionaire Paul Tudor Jones started the Robin Hood Foundation 25 years ago to inspire wealthy donors to give money to help impoverished New Yorkers. Since then, the charity has raised more than one and a quarter billion dollars.
A needle-in-a-haystack search by a New York City Parks Department worker willing to go the extra mile turned up a diamond ring lost in Battery Park. On the verge of giving up hope, a married couple searching the grounds spotted a city trash truck on the edge of the park and decided to leave a note asking that day's driver to help.
Before she died last September, Lelia Boroughs, 84, told her attorney she had no family to whom to leave her estate. So she crafted her will to leave her $400,000 condo to the city to turn into a homeless shelter.
A Philadelphia man is leading the charge to reclaim an 86-acre city park that had become overgrown with weeds and trash while becoming a haven for crime. His love for the park stems from family outings as a child and led to a working army of volunteers.
When a real estate developer bought land that a band of urban farmers were using, he opened his wallet and goodwill sprouted in an amazing way.
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