Friday, July 6, 2012

TEST

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I HOPE THE LABEL WILL WORK
Sunday, December 12, 2010

BLOG HAS MOVED AND GROWN

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Hi Everyone The Blog has moved to a new blog which contains all the original stories and even more information about "ideas that work...
Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Repurposed Parking Meters Collect Donations for Homeless

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The city of Montreal has turned its retired mechanical parking meters (or Parco Dons)  in to piggy banks designed to collect loose change i...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010

NY helps 45,000 low income homes get insulated

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New York expects to help more than 45,000 low-income households by blowing in insulation, sealing air leaks and installing energy-efficie...
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Monday, December 6, 2010

New Device Helps Paralyzed Walk

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Amanda Boxtel hasn’t walked since a skiing accident left her paralyzed nearly two decades ago. In the video below, she stands and walks for...
Sunday, December 5, 2010

San Francisco Health Clinic to Care for Uninsured

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After Barbara Quinn, a 72-year-old registered nurse, retired from the Castro-Mission Health Center last year, she considered various vol...
Saturday, December 4, 2010

Hilton Foundation to End Homelessness in L.A.

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The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation today announced $13 million in grants to fund key  a campaign to end homelessness in L.A. The grants incl...
Friday, December 3, 2010

Stimulus dollars for weatherization create thousands of jobs in New York

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New York expects to help more than 45,000 low-income households by blowing in insulation, sealing air leaks and installing energy-efficien...
Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Sharing Baby Food Saved My Sanity

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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 ...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Rooftop to Tabletop: Urban Farming Spreads Roots

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Eighteen feet above Chicago’s honking city traffic, Mike Repkin stands in a plot of buckwheat, delicate white flowers waving about his wais...
Monday, November 29, 2010

In California, Carports That Can Generate Electricity

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So far, solar carports have been installed at some 75 elementary, high school and community college campuses in California, the majority ...
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Sunday, November 28, 2010

Car Share Service - Rent Your Car for extra $$

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GetAround is a basic idea -- most of our cars aren't in use during the day. We use them to drive to work, and then they just sit there...
Saturday, November 27, 2010

Insurance Companies Required to Spend More on Patient Care

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In 2011 health insurers will have to follow a new set of rules that details how much money they must spend on patients' medical car...
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Friday, November 26, 2010

Giants Delivered A Solar-Powered World Series

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The San Francisco Giants are one of the first teams in the country to play in a stadium partially powered by renewable energy. When Game ...
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Thursday, November 25, 2010

16 People Receive Kidneys Just Before Thanksgiving

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Sixteen people received kidneys in the world's largest paired kidney exchange ever accomplished.  Georgetown University Hospital coo...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Help Your Neighborhood Go Solar

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Everyone want to add solar panels to their house but they are too expensive for many...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Do-It-Yourself: Winter Break Camp Co-ops

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The original article promotes a summer camp co-op, but since the kids will be out of school over the Winter Break this idea may just save a ...
Monday, November 22, 2010

Builders of Hope - rebuilding homes, neighborhoods and lives

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This story has it all, saving older houses from demolition, reducing waste at landfills, creating "green" homes, providing affor...
Sunday, November 21, 2010

Cities offer homeless free storage

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Last Thanksgiving, Phillip Black says most of his belongings were thrown away by the police. Police told Black they mistook the bags in a ...
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Saturday, November 20, 2010

23 yr old Invents Solar Fridge

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Proving once again that the best ideas are often the simplest, 23-year-old student/inventor/entrepreneur Emily Cummins has designed a bril...
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