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Shell Oil Pays to Treat City Sewage and Buy it Back
A British Columbia city is overcoming a water problem by getting the oil and gas industry to pay for its daily sewage treatment....
Madonna Visits Millennium Village in Malawi, Sees Progress She Funded
Madonna today visited Gumulira, a Millennium Village of approximately 5000 people in rural central Malawi. Raising Malawi, an organization co-founded by Madonna, has been...
US to Invest $8 Billion in High Speed Rail
President Obama announced the dedication yesterday of $8 billion in federal stimulus investments to jump-start American high-speed rail and improve existing rail lines...
Top Ten Innovations You’ve Never Heard Of
Here are the Top Ten Innovations from 2009 that will lead us, with chin up, into the next decade. From new technologies that strip...
The Silver Lining Study: People Prefer to Hear Good and Bad News Separately
This is interesting: Communicating "I have some good news and some bad news" is better than combining messages into a single, bleak result when...
Tribute to Abe Pollin, Washington’s Philanthropist (1923-2009)
Abe Pollin, philanthropist, developer, and the face of Washington D.C. sports, as the longest-tenured owner of any NBA team, has died at the age...
Award Winners Changing the World Through Tech
The Tech Awards is an international program honoring innovators from around the world who are applying technology to benefit humanity. This year's winners received...
Cyclists Get Fortified Bike Lane in Downtown DC
For a cyclist, getting "doored" by a parked car is a usually painful and sometimes expensive collision, occuring when someone in a...
New Technologies Suck Carbon Right Out of Air
A variety of new technologies are gearing up to grab climate-warming carbon right out of the air. This is different from trapping carbon...
Massachusetts Health Care Honored as Government Success
As the Obama administration and Congress debate the details of a national health care plan, the state that paved the way for universal...
Good Idea! Doggies Get the Pool for Final Day of Season
The dog days of summer ended last night with the second annual Pooch Plunge. The Albert Oakland Pool opened solely for dogs....
Toddler Lost in Yukon Gets to Keep Dog He Followed
A two-year-old boy lost in the Yukon bush overnight after wandering away from his family's campsite will get to keep the dog he...
Tot Survives 8-Mile River Run on Toy Truck
A 3-year-old boy was unhurt and apparently unfazed after he floated 12 kilometres down a powerful British Columbia river riding atop his plastic...
Virgin Music Festival Gives 35,000 Free Tickets: Just Donate or Volunteer for the Homelsss
An innovative charity concert twist rewards volunteerism with free concert tickets. The Virgin Mobile FreeFest music festival already gave away 35,000 tickets for free,...
Most Stood by, But Two Braved an Explosion to Save Stranger
A South Carolina city has something to be proud of this week:
Two men braved a burning car to save a stranger seconds before...
Production of Heroin, Cocaine Decline Sharply
The UN has reported a sharp decline in the production of opium in Afghanistan (used for heroin) and cocoa fields in Columbia (used to...
Clean Energy Economy Yields Significant Job Growth at all Skill Levels
The number of jobs in America’s emerging clean energy economy grew nearly two and a half times faster than overall jobs between 1998 and...
53 Wind Projects Awarded $8.5M, Includes Environmental Impact Research
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu last week announced a list of 53 wind energy projects that will receive up to $8.5...
Turning Air into Water? Gadget Does Just That
Remember those sweltering summer days when the air was so muggy you could practically drink it? A new home appliance is promising to make...
Polluters Pay Record Fines, Achieve Record Clean Up
Fiscal year 2008 was a banner year for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's enforcement of pollution laws and resulted in a record $11.8 billion...