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Group Throws Lifeline To Homeowners Near Foreclosure
The "Save the Dream" Tour is traveling across the country, stopping in cities nationwide to rewrite contracts for people whose mortgages have become...
Spontaneous Facebook Outreach Brings Peanut Butter and Jelly to Homeless
A dozen do-gooders get together on Valencia Street in San Francisco once a month, laden with peanut butter, jelly, bread and sandwich bags. They...
National Day of Encouragement September 12 Honors Teens Making a Difference
The Encouragement Foundation, sponsor of this year's National Day of Encouragement, launched its "7 Days Across America" campaign to showcase the impressive actions of...
Street Turned Into Life-size Candy Land Game
Dozens of children in San Francisco played a life-sized board game to celebrate Candy Land's 60th birthday, along a quarter mile of...
One of the Most Polluted Sites in US to Become Green Tech Community
A 140-year-old shipyard in San Francisco Bay, left for dead in the early 1970's as a radioactive wasteland contaminated by heavy metals, is to...
Obama Names Medal of Freedom Winners: Kennedy, Poitier, Hawking, 13 Others
President Obama on Thursday named the 16 recipients of the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom. America’s highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom is...
5-Year-Old Helps Feed 18,000 People
5-year-old Phoebe became sad after seeing a hungry person holding a cardboard sign on the street. She decided she wanted to help feed people...
Federal Court Overturns Bush Administration Logging Rule
Protections were restored this week to 193 million acres of national forest by a federal court that struck down the Bush administration policy of...
Muslims in America: A New Day Under Obama
Because the notion of Muslims as scary "others" was so pervasive in some areas of America, I had hoped the election of Barack Obama...
Passenger Spots Leaking Jet Fuel, Averts Mid-Ocean Crash
Staff Sgt. Bartek Bachleda spotted a fuel leak during take-off and possibly saved the lives of more than 300 airline passengers in route...
Parrot Saves Choking Toddler’s Life
In Denver Colorado, a parrot named Willie saved a toddler from choking on her breakfast, by screeching, "Mama, baby! ... Mama, baby!" when...
City Scraps Transformed into Gold for Area Farmers
San Francisco is leading the way in producing high-quality compost to fertilize regional crops. In one year, 105,000 tons of food scraps and...
Cities Turn Off the Lights Tomorrow for Earth Hour
Creating a day...
Salvation Army Reports Record-Setting Red Kettle Donations
Holiday donations to The Salvation Army's iconic red kettles set a new national record of $130 million, despite the ongoing economic downturn, surpassing the...
Mexico City to Turn Green with New Recycling Plan
A newly formed Waste Commission in Mexico City is working to build four state-of-the-art processing centers in the next four years to recycle, compost...
Hudson River Pilot Gets Hero’s Welcome in Hometown (Video)
The pilot who safely landed a US Airways jetliner in the Hudson River was given a hero's homecoming in the San Francisco suburb he...
Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother Helps Abused Kids at Christmas
My lawyer girlfriend asked, “Will you help with the holiday party for the abused kids?” “Sure, what do you want me to do?” I...
New Campaign Shows Garbage Isn’t Garbage at All
A new effort to help people see garbage in a different way is rolling through San Francisco neighborhoods: 3D garbage trucks that look like...
Healthiest Cities in US: Lincoln, Nebraska is #1
The top four healthiest cities for 2007 according to the US Centers for Disease Control are: Lincoln, Nebraska; Fargo, North Dakota; Boulder, Colorado; and...
Bible Now One of Many Holy Books in Hotel Drawers
A new trend for smaller hotels: Offering a spiritual menu of holy texts for guests -- instead of only the Bible -- caters to...