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Direct Mideast Peace Talks To Continue

New York Times   
September 3rd, 2010

Direct Mideast Peace Talks To Continue

Israeli and Palestinian negotiators cleared the first hurdle on Thursday in their elusive quest for Middle East peace: they agreed to keep talking, two weeks from now in Egypt.

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How panhandlers use free credit cards

Toronto Star   
September 3rd, 2010

How panhandlers use free credit cards

The Star gave credit-card-like gift cards to five panhandlers. Each purchase, and each returned card, tells a story.

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Community garden gives taste of home to resettled Burundians

Mother Nature Network   
September 3rd, 2010

Community garden gives taste of home to resettled Burundians

Families find comfort in familiar food, companionship in Atlanta suburb.

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After seeing Mumbai’s slums bulldozed, he now works to save and restore them

Christian Science Monitor   
September 2nd, 2010

After seeing Mumbai’s slums bulldozed, he now works to save and restore them

Crews once bulldozed thousands of slum homes in Mumbai, a metropolitan region of about 16 million people in India. Santosh Thorat sees a better way: Help residents fix them up.

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SeenReport Helps Citizens Report on Floods in Pakistan

Idea Lab   
September 2nd, 2010

SeenReport Helps Citizens Report on Floods in Pakistan

SeenReport is a citizen journalism service through which users can submit photos, videos, and text accounts of news as it is happening via SMS, MMS, or email.

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Eco Urinal

yobo Staff    Yobo Staff
September 3rd, 2010

Eco Urinal

Design combines the urinal and the sink to save water.

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MILLEE: Education and Mobile Phone Games

Ashoka    Yobo Member
September 3rd, 2010

MILLEE: Education and Mobile Phone Games

Mobile phones have attracted considerable interest as a medium of learning.

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Five Ways You Can Help Pakistan (and the Rest of Us)

YES! Magazine    Yobo Member
September 2nd, 2010

Five Ways You Can Help Pakistan (and the Rest of Us)

The Pakistani people need our help. Here’s what we can do today, and how to reduce the number of future disasters.

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Publicly Traded Social Impact: what does it mean for how we do business?

Echoing Green    Yobo Member
September 2nd, 2010

Publicly Traded Social Impact: what does it mean for how we do business?

Microfinance institutions that go public have their fair share of supporters and critics.

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‘Greening’ Your Flat Screen TV: Engineers Develop an Organic LED Light Source for Home Electronics, Medicine and Clean Energy

Science Daily   
September 1st, 2010

‘Greening’ Your Flat Screen TV: Engineers Develop an Organic LED Light Source for Home Electronics, Medicine and Clean Energy

Their new invention is more than a clean, green way to create light, the researchers say. It also generates a strong signal that can be used in other applications in the nano-world of motors, actuators and ultrasound.

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