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Surfing the web for funny penguin pictures? Clicking through the first lady’s fabulous fashion slideshow? Googling yourself just to get an ego boost (or not)? Yeah, we caught...
Solar Cooking Saves Trees and Does Global Good
The next time you turn on the stove to boil water, think about this: Between 50 and 60 percent of the world’s population — more than 3 billion people — still build...
How to Give Back with a Volunteer Vacation
Dorothy Engler felt blessed. She had fulfilling work as a Montessori teacher and the satisfaction of seeing her older child enter medical school and the younger one graduate college....
A Buffalo Helps a Mom in Nepal Pay It Forward
Sabitra Guragain never thought she’d be giving a buffalo calf to her neighbor. In her small village in Nepal, many don’t have the income to support their own families, let...
Volunteer
Electrical engineer Brian Dempsey helps people in America turn sunlight into electricity every day. But he says his most brilliant work was turning sun power into power learning for...
Improving Chicago's Transit Options
The launch of the Chicago Climate Action Plan (CCAP) last year set some lofty, yet achievable, goals for everyone who lives and works in the city. Some of its key components identify...
What Counts
2 - 4 Million: Girls (some as young as five years old) who will be sold into sexual slavery in 2009. 2/3: Percentage of those girls who are sold by someone...
Say It, Don't Spray It
Graffiti artists add vivid guerilla splashes of color to the urban landscape, but they do it with toxic paint loaded with VOCs. Enter a new breed of eco-taggers who are ditching the...
Life on Google Earth
The map didn’t make sense. It was one of those grainy, black-and-white topographical maps, the kind of 8 ½ x 11 photocopy you get in the mail to inform you of an upcoming...
Seva the Planet
It’s difficult to believe Seane Corn went through most of her teacher training terrified to lead her class, considering now, nearly two decades later, she’s one of the most...