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The Power of Acknowledgment – Another Reason to Love Thanksgiving
Can you remember how it feels when someone tells you how wonderful you are, or when you receive an unexpected thank-you gift in the...
Peace Corps Volunteers Use Chocolate To Lift Africans from Poverty
Africa produces 70% of the world’s chocolate and 60% of the world’s vanilla crop, yet the continent makes just 1% of finished chocolate bars,...
College Grads’ New Company Recycles Coffee Grounds into Gourmet Mushrooms You Can Grow at Home
When two college students in Oakland discovered they could grow mushrooms in used coffee grounds, they started a company to recycle the waste from...
Jon Bon Jovi Opens Charity Restaurant in New Jersey
Jon Bon Jovi opened his long-awaited Soul Kitchen yesterday, a pay-what-you-want restaurant in Red Bank, NJ with no prices on the menu. The establishment...
Target, CVS Encourage Reusing Shopping Bags With Cash Rewards
Target and CVS stores are starting new programs to reward shoppers for not requesting new plastic bags with every purchase, either with a...
Some Bright Spots in Today’s Job Market
Don't assume that no one is hiring. There are some bright spots in today's economy: According to one Information Technology hiring index, 12...
Nevada’s First Green Convenience Store
Nevada’s first full-sized alternative fuel station and LEED-certified convenience store opened in Minden Tuesday. With solar panels and skylights, bamboo shelving and biofuels, the...
Every TerraCycle Product is Made From Garbage, Packaged in Garbage
Kraft Foods has joined a list of major corporations, like Coke and Kellogg, to fund the collection of used packaging and consumer leftovers of...
EARTH ALERT ’08: Top Ten Good News for the Earth
Happy Earth Day! Here are the top ten good news stories for the environment... Since the first Earth Day in 1970, air quality has...
Schools Take Action on Overweight Kids
In response to a steep rise in obesity among children, some public schools are taking action. It shocked me to learn that only 6...
Wind Power up by 25% Over Last Year
The wind energy industry worldwide installed more than US$14 billion worth of new generating equipment last year, an increase of 25 percent over 2004,...
Diet Linked to Hyper Kids
A revolution has turned around Central Alternative High School in Appleton, Wisconsin, and its ‘problem kids’, sent there from twelve area schools. Respect, achievement,...
8-Year-old Heart Transplant Patient Craved Pickles so Hospital Chef Taught Her How to Make Them
An 8-year-old girl awaiting a heart transplant had the time of her life when a hospital affiliate came and taught her how to make...
Good News in History, October 1
Happy Birthday to former President Jimmy Carter who turns 100 years old today. The 39th president of the United States from 1977–1981, is one...
Inspired by Avatar and His Asthma, Indian Man Creates ‘Biosphere’ to Connect Adjacent Land to National Park
It's being called India's first private biosphere—a 32-acre forest haven bursting with life and inspired by James Cameron's Avatar.
Environmentalist and clean air activist Jai Dhar...
Good News in History, April 13
Today is Vaisakhi, the second most important day of the year on the Punjabi calendar, on which Sikhs from around the world celebrate a...
Good News in History, April 7
93 years ago today, perhaps the greatest American whistleblower in history, Daniel Ellsberg was born. In March of last year, Ellsberg revealed to the...
How Zinc Helps You Fight Off Infections, Including Colds
(Originally published by Knowable Magazine – written by Diana Kwon)
Walk down the cold-remedy aisle of almost any pharmacy and you’ll see a shelf full...
Eating Yogurt Can Get Rid of Your Garlic Breath, Say Researchers
Scientists say the proteins present in whole-milk plain yogurt act to neturalize the smell and snuff out the sulphur-based compounds that cause the lingering...
Compostable Plastic Wrap Made from Seaweed Can Withstand Heat–and Biodegrade in Weeks
An invasive seaweed species from the Caribbean has been turned into a compostable plastic wrap that has the potential for mass production.
Furthermore, it may...