Holiday heroes: Foster kids feel her love

At work, Frances Smith is a crossing guard. At home, she cares for her adopted kids. For her annual vacation, she’s a volunteer elf for hundreds of foster children. Meet a Holiday Hero.

 

Outside an unremarkable old storefront in Newnan, a volunteer raised the gate of an equally unremarkable 14-foot moving truck. As the door creaked upward, Frances Smith’s smile grew more radiant.

 

“Look at that,” Smith said. A hive of volunteers swarmed around her.
New dolls, clothes, bicycles, coffee makers, toiletries, puzzles, games, blankets, gift cards and more packed the floor of the cargo hold and scaled up its sides. A 15-passenger van parked next to it was just as full.

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Solar Field Powers Historic Garden Holiday Display

One of the most visited public gardens in the United States, and a popular attraction for elaborate holiday decorations, is now running on solar power thanks to help from the Energy Department.

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Apple HQ could have the country’s biggest solar installation

Today’s updated Apple Headquarters Spaceship campus plans include a roof made almost entirely out of solar cells, according to details released today. With a building as large as Apple’s, that puts it in the top corporate solar installations in the world and the biggest in the US.  The current title holder is the 4.26 MW system in Edison New Jersey and another being built by ToysRus in sunny NJ is rated 5.38MW

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Young Americans for Obama: Jonathon’s Story :: OFA South Carolina

Last night, Obama for America Campaign Manager Jim Messina, Democratic strategist Melody Barnes, and Mayor Michael Nutter launched Obama for America’s “Greater Together: Youth Summit” at the University of Pennsylvania. It was the first in a series of summits that allow students a platform to hear directly from senior campaign officials and leaders. The summits feature a live twitter feed so the campaign can take questions and get feedback from students across the country. Here in South Carolina, we're working with schools like the College of Charleston, Furman University, the University of South Carolina, South Carolina State, Allen University and Columbia College to engage and mobilize young people in the state.

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Faces of Change :: Emily's Health Care Story

 

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Warren Buffett Buys $2 Billion Solar Farm

Warren Buffett is getting into the solar business by buying one of the world's largest solar PV plants - the $2 billion Topaz project under development in southern California.

Buffet's utility, MidAmerican Energy Holdings, is making the acquisition - the 550 megawatt (MW) project is being developed by First Solar using its thin-film solar panels. First Solar will also operate the plant after it comes online in early 2015.

First Solar was unable to get a Dept of Energy (DOE) loan gurantee for the project.

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