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Teens ‘Repair the World’ and Win Big Awards
Five honorees took home checks for $36,000 after winning the Teen Tikkun Olam Awards (Hebrew for 'repair the world') for being outstanding teen role...
China Plans Elevated Buses That Can DRIVE OVER Cars, Without Blocking Traffic
Instead of spending millions to widen roads or build subways, a Chinese company is developing a "three-dimensional fast coach", a raised bus that will...
Cimate-gate Scientists Cleared of Misconduct Allegations
An independent commission in Britain cleared climate-change researchers of charges of academic misconduct Wednesday, completing an inquiry begun after hundreds of e-mails from the...
Africa’s Largest Wind Farm Debuts in Morocco
The largest wind farm in Africa was inaugurated in Northern Morocco last week by King Mohammed VI as part of a larger renewable energy...
Priest Reforms Gangs With Boundless Compassion, Now Homeboy Program Needs Help
Homeboy Industries is the largest gang-intervention program in the country, serving the needs of thousands of East Los Angeles gang members who are looking...
Google Invests $38.8 Million in Two Wind Farms
Internet search giant Google Inc has invested $38.8 million in two wind farms in North Dakota that generate enough energy to power more than...
Scientists Tap An Electrical Current Stemming from Plants
In an electrifying first, new research could lead to production of electricity that doesn't release carbon into the atmosphere. Stanford scientists have plugged into...
5 Young Social Entrepreneurs Win Rolex Laureate Awards
Five visionaries between the ages of 18-30 from the U.S., Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, and the Philippines have been selected to receive the Rolex Award...
Clean Tech Investments Soaring in 2010
Worldwide, investors put $1.9 billion into clean tech startups in the first three months of 2010. That is an 83% increase from the...
Gaming For Social Good: New Site for Social Gaming Promotes Activism
Imagine if the tens of millions who give time and money to tending their Farmville game on Facebook were instead working for social...
Smart Energy Glass Turns Windows into Energy Generators
An innovative Dutch company, recently developed an organic-based glass coating called Smart Energy Glass. Windows made with this glass are transformed into solar energy...
Hot Water for Chile’s slums, Courtesy of the Sun
Jacquelin Marin has no running hot water at home. For a while, she had no real home at all. But soon she'll have...
West Africa Sets Out to Protect Dying Mangroves
Salt is precious in poverty-stricken coastal West Africa, but conservation experts say efforts to extract it are laying waste to mangrove swamps, causing...
Company to Recycle Carbon Dioxide into Gasoline
Until we live in a society dominated by hydrogen and electric vehicles, new bio-fuel and carbon capture technologies can help us lower our dependence...
Haiti Turning Around as Aid Gets Through, Rescues Continue
Day ten since the earthquake in Haiti and while search and rescue teams wind down, those resilient few who refuse to give up hope...
Ontario and South Korea Sign New Green Energy Deal
Canadian Premier Dalton McGuinty has signed a landmark agreement with a South Korean consortium to generate 2,500 megawatts of wind and solar power in...
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...
Molten Salt Project To Power Up To 75,000 Homes
NV Energy signed an agreement today to use Crescent Dunes in Nye County, NV, near Tonopah, as a source for alternative power driven...
Italian Village is EU’s Most Sustainable Community (Video)
As world leaders in Copenhagen try to thrash out a deal on tackling climate change, a small village in northern Italy is providing...
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...