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Local Governments Can Take On Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Pasadena, Long Beach, Santa Monica and West Hollywood, have all adopted new strict Green Building Codes, but Los Angeles is poised to become the...
Volunteers Restore Rivers Across America
"Federal agencies, states, tribes and concerned residents are spending millions of dollars and thousands of hours on 37,000 river restoration projects under way to...
Top Ten Good News Stories of 2007!
Looking back and choosing the top good news stories of the year was a happy exercise and I've concluded that 2007 was a good...
Teen Turns Trash into Computers for Needy Families
Fifteen-year-old Jacob Komar rebuilds old computers that are destined for the landfill and gives them to needy families. "I started Computers for Communities in...
Low-Income Florida Homes Get Hurricane Help
Low-income residents in 12 Florida counties are getting a little extra help this hurricane season to protect their homes from storm damage.
Under the state-funded...
Illusion, the Must-See Movie of the Year (Join Spiritual Cinema DVD Club and Get Film Free in May)
“What if I could do my life over again?” This is the tantalizing question at the heart of ILLUSION, a new film starring the...
Author, 96, Proves it’s Never Too Late
After his wife died a 96-year-old man decided to write. "He sent the finished manuscript to the London office of Random House. There the...
Safety for Seagulls: Detangling California Fishing Piers
Thanks to a new university project, the sight of gulls or pelicans with fishing hooks in their mouths or fishing line wrapped around their...
Snow Globe Repairman Resurrects Memories
Dick Heibel repairs broken snow globes, bringing joy to those who connect to distant memories through these nostalgic trinkets. Seventy-seven-year-old Heibel lives in Northfield,...
10 Tons of Fishing Gear Cleaned From Channel Islands Waters
Lost and abandoned underwater fishing gear can be dangerous to wildlife as well as people. Derelict nets in particular can entrap fish, sharks...
Farm Helps Homeless Horses
In the rolling hills of California lies a horse sanctuary where "lucky animals are given a second chance at life." Jennifer Johns has rescued...
Photo Students Volunteer to Shoot Portraits for Homeless Families
For homeless people, posing for family portraits can seem like a luxury. But students from a Santa Clara University photography class traveled to shelters...
Crafting Guns into Guitars
Polished rosewood, guitar frets and strings are added to the shotguns and AK-47s reclaimed through Colombia's peace process "turning tools of death into symbols...
The Top Ten Green Buildings for 2006
This summer, the American Institute of Architects and its Committee on the Environment selected the top ten examples of sustainable architecture and green design...
Sporty Electric Cars On Silicon Valley Horizon
Tesla Motors' goal is to design a sports car that would go as fast as a Ferrari or Porsche — but run on electricity....
3.8 million Acres of California Ocean Floor Protected
The Nature Conservancy announced this week the purchase of six trawling permits and four trawling vessels from commercial fishermen in Morro Bay as part...
The Whale Rescuer, Hero of Southern Calif. Coast
“I couldn’t have gotten a clearer sign that this is my calling,” explained Peter Wallerstein. “Saving such magnificent, once almost-extinct creatures is a...
Bald Eagle Numbers Soar
USA Removing Eagle from Endangered Species List
After nearly four decades on the endangered species list, bald eagles are soaring once again, their population climbing...
A Special Group of Soldiers, Vietnamese Orphans and Their American Angel
Betty Tisdale has a special spot in her heart for veterans, especially Vietnam vets. She read a book that changed her life by renowned...