Thursday, October 7, 2010
Shower to the People
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Great Ideas
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December 12, 2010
Handy Dandy Handyman
December 11, 2010
Pillow Case Dress for Little Girls in Africa and America
Little Dresses for Africa is a non-profit organization that makes little dresses out of pillow cases and distributes them to the little girls in Central Africa through orphanages and villages, to plant in their hearts that they are worthy. They are not just sending little dresses, they are sending hope.Recently they have expanded their efforts to include pants for little boys. Their major focus is on children in Africa, however dresses have been sent to poor families in America, and recently dresses were sent to Haiti. Click below to watch the video and learn more.
December 8, 2010
Repurposed Parking Meters Collect Donations for Homeless
December 7, 2010
NY helps 45,000 low income homes get insulated
This program is expected to create 14,000 jobs statewide as demand for contractors rises.
December 6, 2010
New Device Helps Paralyzed Walk
In the video shown in the complete story, she stands and walks for the first time in 18 years using eLegs, a 45-pound wearable robotic exoskeleton aimed at getting paraplegics out of their wheelchairs and onto their feet. It’s an amazing sight.
December 5, 2010
San Francisco Health Clinic to Care for Uninsured
December 4, 2010
Hilton Foundation to End Homelessness in L.A.
- $9 million toward the creation of 2,500 new permanent supportive housing units;
- $3.6 million to identify and house 4,500 of the most vulnerable people on the streets;
- $330,000 for an innovative pilot program to ease the transition into housing; and
- $200,000 to engage faith leaders and communities in the campaign.
December 1, 2010
Sharing Baby Food Saved My Sanity
This is a story of a woman who wanted to make healthy food for her baby, and also wanted to sleep. She formed a group of like minded parent who each made a big batch of one kind of food and shared it with the group. This idea works for baby food, soup, casseroles, you name it. If anyone in the Santa Rosa area wants to try this, I'm in.
How do you create and host a local babyfood exchange?November 30, 2010
Rooftop to Tabletop: Urban Farming Spreads Roots
He grows great leafy bunches of kale and chard, stalks of wheat and oats, chubby potatoes, sweet strawberries, and even deep-rooted rhubarb. He grows Jerusalem artichokes for diabetics at the nearby community center and basil to sell at the farmer’s market across the street.
November 29, 2010
In California, Carports That Can Generate Electricity
Roofs made of solar panels are altering vistas and promoting a philosophy of green thinking among the young. Yet the primary driver of the solar roofs is economic.
November 28, 2010
Car Share Service - Rent Your Car for extra $$
What if someone else could be using them when we don't need them? GetAround provides you with a keyless entry system for your car. You can then register it on their site so that someone who needs wheels nearby can find it, and rent it from you. It's sort of like a hybrid of Rentalic and ZipCar.
November 27, 2010
Insurance Companies Required to Spend More on Patient Care
In 2011 health insurers will have to follow a new set of rules that details how much money they must spend on patients' medical care, according to guidelines the Obama administration released Monday.
The rules are part of the health care reform law, which mandates that insurers spend a minimum of 85 percent of the premiums that they take in on patient care rather than administrative costs or profit (insurers who sell to small groups and individuals will spend a minimum of 80%).
Watch Whitehouse Whiteboard Presentation
November 26, 2010
Giants Delivered A Solar-Powered World Series
When Game 1 of the World Series started in San Francisco’s AT&T Park, the hometown Giants took the field in a stadium that boasts solar panels and was recognized in April for energy efficiency and sustainability by the U.S. Green Building Council. Their opponents, the Texas Rangers, regularly recycle everything from infield grass clippings to cardboard and office paper, according to MLB.com.
November 25, 2010
16 People Receive Kidneys Just Before Thanksgiving
Sixteen people received kidneys in the world's largest paired kidney exchange ever accomplished. Georgetown University Hospital coordinated 32 operations, most involving people from Maryland.On the eve of Thanksgiving, 16 people gave a rare gift to 16 others and nearly all met for the first time that day.
November 24, 2010
Help Your Neighborhood Go Solar
November 23, 2010
Do-It-Yourself: Winter Break Camp Co-ops
If you are looking for ways to save on childcare and day camp over the holiday, consider forming Holiday Camp Co-op through Care.com. By creating your own day camp with other parents in your neighborhood, you can be certain that the care will be affordable, trustworthy, and provide unique learning experiences for your child.
November 22, 2010
Builders of Hope - rebuilding homes, neighborhoods and lives
This story has it all, saving older houses from demolition, reducing waste at landfills, creating "green" homes, providing affordable housing and giving the homeless and recently incarcerated folks a job.Builders of Hope is a remarkable North Carolina-based charity that saves older houses from demolition (frequently moving them to a new site), remodels them to green standards, and then sells them at below-market rates to qualifying buyers.Watch the video, read the article and be inspired.
November 21, 2010
Cities offer homeless free storage
Last Thanksgiving, Phillip Black says most of his belongings were thrown away by the police.
Police told Black they mistook the bags in a Whole Foods shopping cart for trash. "I couldn't even enjoy my Thanksgiving," he says.Finding a place to safely leave possessions is one of many challenges homeless people face each day, homeless advocates say. Some cities, including Portland, Ore., St. Petersburg, Fla., New York, San Francisco and Chicago are trying to help people in Black's situation by offering free storage space to the homeless.
November 20, 2010
23 yr old Invents Solar Fridge
November 19, 2010
San Francisco Recycling Best in Nation
The city of San Francisco managed to divert 72 percent of all recyclable material from the landfill, claiming the highest recycling rate of any city in the country, according to office of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. The percentage inches closer to the city’s goal of 75 percent landfill diversion by 2010 and zero waste by 2020.Watch the video and
November 18, 2010
Paint, brushes, and volunteers clean up graffiti and build communities
Since 1984 she has put paintbrushes in the hands of more than 35,000 city kids. The program has brought art to prison inmates and drug addicts, as well as wary stoop sitters. The waiting list for murals to be painted here is 2,000 walls long. Artists far beyond Philly want in on the design work.
November 17, 2010
Louisville Leopards take Manhattan
The Leopards don't read music; instead they learn new songs by ear. For Diane Downs, their teacher, it's all about the kids' talents and their desire to play music.
Thanks to Leigh and John Nouveaux for sharing this story.
November 15, 2010
Electric Taxi Program comes to the San Francisco Bay Area
India Develops $35 "laptop"
"We have reached a (developmental) stage that today, the motherboard, its chip, the processing, connectivity, all of them cumulatively cost around $35, including memory, display, everything," he told a news conference.
To see the laptop in action select the "Read More" link below:
November 14, 2010
Lone Ranger with Heavy Machinery
Tad Agoglia hasn't been to his Knoxville, Tenn., office in three years. That's because the 34-year-old and his four-man team constantly rush to disaster sites, where they open roads and provide other urgent services for emergency personnel.The group, First Response Team of America, grew out of a for-profit disaster recovery firm Agoglia formed in 2003. He was usually hired two or three months after a catastrophe. "I looked at the devastation still evident and wondered what it must be like on the first day, the first night, the first week," he says. "I realized that there was a need, and that I had the ability to meet that need. How could I turn my back?"
November 13, 2010
Toilet Plunger Becomes Portable Wound-Healing Device
Among the team was MIT graduate student Danielle Zurovcik, who arrived ready to test a device which uses negative pressure to pull bacteria and fluid out of wounds, and was the crowning achievement for her master’s degree thesis project.
November 12, 2010
Camp Helps Kids Grieve
Camp Erin is weekend-long overnight camp designed for children and teens, ages 6 to 17, who are grieving the death of someone close to them. It is a traditional, fun, high-energy camp combined with grief education and emotional support. Camp Erin is offered at no charge to participants.
Apple Needs to Make it in America
