Muslim and Jewish Students Join to Celebrate Art
Original article at CNN By Summer Suleiman, CNN ATLANTA (CNN) – Canvases with bold colors and Arabic letters lined the walls of the rooms. Downstairs, students rapped about Islam and Judaism to their own version of the “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” melody, followed by songs performed in Arabic, Hebrew and English. For the first [...]
Cy-Ranch High School is part of the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District in the northern suburbs of Houston. So is Hamilton Middle School, where gay 13-year-old Asher Brown was relentlessly bullied before taking his own life in 2010. A year later, a 17-year-old junior became president of the student council at Cypress Ranch High School, [...]
Anger motivates developer to house vets
Original post by evakilgore@aol.com 4/24/12 www.ocregister.com Real-estate developer Matt Heslin is an avid cyclist. As he rode the streets of Orange County and Los Angeles, something disturbed him greatly. “As I rode, I continually saw very young homeless men and women,” said Heslin. “I’d see them at the beaches, on freeway off-ramps, in river beds, [...]
Albertsons Stores Cut Waste by 90%
Original post at Supermarket News April 10, 2012 LAS VEGAS — Supervalu-owned Albertsons announced that 30 stores located in the greater Las Vegas area, Henderson, Nev., and Boulder City, Nev., have diverted more than 90% of all store waste from local landfills. Through recycling, organic composting and food donations, the stores combined to keep more [...]
The 25 Happiest Animals in the World
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Caine’s Arcade
9-year-old Caine Monroy, who built an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad’s used auto parts store, is about to have the best day of his life. See Caine’s website: http://cainesarcade.com/ Tweet
Free Your (Eco)Mind
Think like an ecosystem, and you just might save the world. by Frances Moore Lappé Originally posted 2/1/12, Yes! Magazine An eco-mind thinks … Less about quantities and more about qualities. Less about fixed things and more about the ever-changing relationships that form them. Less about limits and more about alignment. Less about [...]
Earthquake Wallpaper
Scientists at the Bayer MaterialScience used special stiff, high-strength glass fibers and wove them together to form a strong and flexible wall covering. The material has these fibers running throughout the “fabric” in four different directions, this allows the energy created by an earthquake to distribute evenly and protect against damage. The wallpaper is simply [...]
Indian Man Single-Handedly Plants a 1,360 Acre Forest
A little over 30 years ago, a teenager named Jadav “Molai” Payeng began burying seeds along a barren sandbar near his birthplace in northern India’s Assam region to grow a refuge for wildlife. Not long after, he decided to dedicate his life to this endeavor, so he moved to the site where he could work [...]
10 Foods to Make You Happier
Coconuts Eggs Cherry Tomatoes Honey Asparagus Greek Yogurt Dark Chocolate Mussels Blue Potatoes Swiss Chard Read the full scoop on each food HERE Tweet
