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White House Unveils Solar Incentive Plan for Federal Lands
The Obama administration unveiled plans Tuesday to ramp up solar energy production, offering incentives for solar developers to cluster projects on 285,000 acres of...
Utah Hiker Survives With Broken Leg and No Food
The hunger and pain weren't the worst of Victoria Grover's ordeal as she shivered alone for four days with a broken leg and no...
Iceland’s Volcanoes May Power UK
The volcanoes of Iceland could soon be pumping low-carbon electricity into the UK under government-backed plans for thousands of miles of cables across the...
New Muppet on Sesame Street Struggles With Hunger
Not since the cute, yellow HIV-positive Muppet premiered in 2009 on Sesame Street in South Africa has a new character from the Workshop taken...
Burning Man Plans To Revitalize a Depressed San Francisco Neighborhood
The Burning Man festival -- where people meet once-a-year in the Nevada desert for a hedonistic experiment in self-reliance, innovation and art -- has...
Man Raises Money to Offer Busloads of Veggies to a Neighborhood Without Produce
For folks living in West Chicago, it is hard to find fresh fruits and vegetables for sale, which is why one man took it...
Horses Abused and Abandoned by Drug Traders Rescued Year Round by Arizona Ranch
When horses are brought to Karen Pomroy's ranch in the Arizona desert they are starving, scared, and unwanted. But, at Jumpin' Jack ranch, the...
New All-organic Carpets Could Have Multiple Lives
In our increasingly recycling-aware society, a carpet is one of those things that usually does not get re-used - it is simply thrown away,...
12 of The Greatest Things to Love About America
What makes America great? On this, the 235th birthday of the nation's founding Declaration of Independence, it seems like a question we need to...
Going Green by Going Google
From mowing it’s Googleplex headquarters’ lawn with a herd of goats to proposing a $4.68 trillion plan for changing alternative energy policy in the...
Google Helping to Build the World’s Largest Solar Tower Power Plant
In their largest clean energy investment to date, Google will contribute $168 million to the new Ivanpah solar energy power plant under construction in...
Why There’s Never Been a Better Time to be Alive: The Rational Optimist
A British scientist and author of the book, The Rational Optimist, makes the case that mankind's progress has been vigorous, widely spread, and not...
Solar Project Will Power 85,850 Homes for Los Angeles
The largest U.S. producer of crystalline solar power energy Wednesday announced plans to build a massive system to provide solar energy to tens of...
PepsiCo’s Deal With Mexican Farmers Is Good for All
PepsiCo’s work with corn farmers in Jalisco, Mexico, reflects a new approach by corporations trying to maintain a business edge while helping out small...
Miracle of Rebirth for Iraqi’s Garden of Eden (Video)
The vast and ancient wetlands between the Tigress and Euphrates rivers in Iraq is considered by some to be the original Garden of Eden.
It...
US Plucks Tiny Daisy from Brink of Extinction
The tiny Maguire daisy, which grows in the desert southwest of the United States, has been plucked from the edge of extinction after a...
Man Risks Border Crossing to Help Impoverished Farmers Build a Co-op
Jesus Hernandez Arias lay in the Arizona desert, half-blind and freezing.
Dawn was approaching on March 11, 2006. It was cold –- no more than...
Man Risks Border Crossing to Help Impoverished Farmers Build a Co-op
Jesus Hernandez Arias lay in the Arizona desert, half-blind and freezing.
Dawn was approaching on March 11, 2006. It was cold –- no more than...
Urine-Powered Fuel Cells: Pee Power to the People!
Researchers have figured out a way to make the world's first urine-powered fuel cells -- a significant feat, because most fuel cell systems today...
Good News Giggles: Cartoon of the Week
________________________________________________ Jonny Hawkins is a fulltime cartoonist from Sherwood, Michigan where he lives with his wife and...