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Youth Activists ~ World Peace Caravan to Travel in the Middle East in 2015

Dec 01, 2014 10:58AM

The World Peace Caravan, founded by the nonprofit D. Gary Young Foundation, is a global peace movement scheduled to conduct a 12-day camel caravan from Petra, Jordan, to Jerusalem, Israel, from Decemb

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Bamboo Bamboozle ~ ‘Green’ Clothing Made with Toxic Chemicals

Dec 01, 2014 10:58AM

Bamboo is rapidly renewable and requires few pesticides to grow. However, bamboo fabric manufacturing is a chemically intensive process that doesn’t provide clear and legitimate product labeling. Misl

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Feeding Hope ~ Recognizing Restaurants that Support the Homeless

Dec 01, 2014 10:58AM

Food Recovery Certified is a new program that rewards restaurants that donate their extra food to those in need with a sticker on their front door. It’s a project of The Food Recovery Network, a natio

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Green Envy ~ Don’t Be So Quick to Bash the Rich

Dec 01, 2014 10:58AM

A survey at social research site Queendom.com reveals that stereotypes of the richest class of society as being uniformly selfish individuals are not entirely accurate. It seems that having money does

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Planet Power ~ Scientists May Harvest Energy from Earth’s Infrared Emissions

Dec 01, 2014 10:58AM

Physicists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) are developing a device described in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that would harvest energy from Earth’s

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Cultural Roots ~ Status of Religious Diversity in the U.S.

Dec 01, 2014 10:58AM

The United States is often described as a religiously free and diverse country, but a new Pew Research Center study reveals that 95 percent of the populace identifies itself as either Christian or una

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Bye-Bye Birdie ~ 230 Avian Species on the National Watch List

Dec 01, 2014 10:58AM

Scientists from 23 organizations, including the federal government, universities and conservation groups, have spent years on the State of the Birds Study, looking at 230 species of birds from differe

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Cash Mobs ~ Collective On-the-Spot Buying Revives Local Businesses

Nov 01, 2014 05:24PM

In most areas of the country, small, locally owned retail businesses are the lifeblood of local economies, but rising cost of doing business often means they cannot compete with the lower prices of bi

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Shark Snooping ~ Sea-Surfing Robot Tracks Marine Life

Nov 01, 2014 05:20PM

An unmanned, solar-powered Wave Glider robot has been deployed off the U.S. coast near San Francisco as part of an arsenal of ocean-observing technologies revealing in real time the mysterious journey

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Big Fish ~ Whales’ Global Impact Underestimated

Nov 01, 2014 04:59PM

Whales have long been considered too rare to be the focus of overall marine ecological research, with more attention going to much smaller essential organisms like algae and plankton. However, as whal

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Eco-India ~ Strides Promised in Environmental Protection

Nov 01, 2014 04:55PM

Following the lead of Jadav “Molai” Payeng, an Indian man who singlehandedly planted 1,360 acres of forest, India’s Rural Development Ministry will plant 2 billion trees along the nation's 62,137 mile

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Ka-Ching ~ Time Is Money, So Bank It

Nov 01, 2014 04:37PM

Time banking is an updated, Web-savvy version of barter that allows users to accumulate the time they work and then “spend” it elsewhere. Unlike traditional bartering, it’s not limited to an individua

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