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Officer Honored for Buying Shoplifted Sandwiches for Homeless Man
A New Hampshire Police Officer, Jeffrey Wholley, responded to a shoplifting complaint at a convenience store to find a 32-year-old man with four sandwiches...
Organic Food Expert Chosen for No. 2 Agriculture Slot
President Barack Obama has chosen Kathleen Merrigan, an organic food expert who helped the US Senate develop labelling rules for organic food, to be...
Building a Bridge to Save Lives
The Nithi River used to claim as many as 50 lives each year near the Kenyan villages of Kajuki and Mutino. But a...
Marks and Spencer Signs Biggest Renewable Energy Deal by UK Retailer
The UK's largest retailer Marks & Spencer has signed the biggest renewable energy contract in that country's retail sector history. The contract with npower...
From Minnesota to Texas, Wind Power Sweeps New Jobs Into Old-tech Towns
Hundreds of workers lost their jobs after the printing press factory closed in Cedar Rapids in 2001. The hulking empty shell sat idle...
US and EU Should Be High on Afghan Opium
US President Barack Obama has called for new ideas on the world's seeming intractable problems. Well here's one that could undermine the Taliban in...
Jewish-Arab Website, Lend for Peace, Lets You Aid Palestinian Women Businesses
Two Jews and two Palestinians in the U.S. launched a website on Thursday that allows you to make a small loan directly to...
Cows with Names Produce More Milk
In a study involving 516 dairy farmers in the UK, researchers found that treating the animals as individuals increased production. The...
Bamboo Bikes, Ghana’s Green Transport (w/ Video)
A new kind of bicycle, lightweight and sturdy, made from the abundant bamboo in the forests of Ghana is making life easier for farmers...
Keynote Speech at Consumer Electronics Show Pushes Charity
Intel Chairman Craig Barrett announced the launch on Friday of the Small Things Challenge, a one-year charity program that will cost his company a...
10 Most Inspiring Stories for 2008
These are some of top good news stories from last year that really tugged at the heartstrings. They were also ten of the most...
ABC’s ‘Persons of the Year’ are Inspired Lot
ABC's World News in New York chose to look back on some of the more extraordinary stories this year of people making a...
Benazir Bhutto Honored During 60th Anniversary of Declaration of Human Rights
Marking the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights December 10, the United Nations honored individuals for outstanding work...
48,000 Gardens and Green Spaces Created in 2008
Keep America Beautiful announced a record 48,000-plus gardens, green spaces and xeriscapes created in 2008 in its annual Great American Cleanup campaign that cleans-up...
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...
Latina Entrepreneur Succeeds with Ethics Learned From Migrant Worker Parents
Yolanda Cuevas is living proof that the American dream is obtainable for anyone willing to work for it. A first-generation Mexican-American, and the third...
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...
Italians Grow ‘Greener’ Olives, Wine (Video)
A range of new technologies are being used at an Italian olive farm in a bid to cut CO2 emissions and also save money...
UN Puts Together $10M Relief Package for Haiti
Two United Nations food agencies are putting together a $10.2 million package to help Haitian farmers devastated by recent hurricanes. The U.N. Food...
World’s First Double-Arm Transplant Recipient Calls ‘Being Whole Again’ Indescribable
Doctors spent 15 hours in July grafting human arms onto the body of 54-year-old farmer Karl Merk, who lost his own just below the...