New York City Public Schools Compete to Be the Greenest
Nation of Change
December 16th, 2011
Last Friday, Solar One and city officials announced the launch of a public school-wide competition that will award a total of $30,000 to schools that can achieve the most energy savings by next April.
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Rare Conservation 
September 27th, 2011
Returning from four weeks in Indonesia and the Philippines, I immediately turned around and flew to the Finnish-Russian border to spend the weekend with my daughter trying to see European Bears in their habitat. I was tired, especially since we had to stay up all night in a hide, but thrilled when we got to see a total of nine of these magnificent beasts.
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IRIN News
May 18th, 2011
Naba Wangré, manager of the child labour project at the Burkina Faso Red Cross, sends bluntly worded text messages to government officials, employers, traditional leaders, teachers, business owners and housewives several times a year, trying to reduce the widespread exploitation of domestic workers by raising awareness of their rights.
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Operation Outreach Afghanistan
April 29th, 2011
It was overwhelming to learn how 3,000 students of all ages attend classes at Ud Khel High School. The school season began following the March 21 celebration of Nowruz, the new year holiday in Afghanistan and other parts of the region.
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BBC
April 8th, 2011
Miles from the Rwandan capital Kigali’s centre, tucked between bustling Senegalese and Ghanaian eateries, street butchers, pavement markets and the odd informal cinema, the Gisimba orphanage is not exactly easy to find.
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Chrysalis School for Young Entrepreneurs
October 21st, 2011
My name is Oceng Morrish and I am 15 years old and the oldest student at the Chrysalis School for Young Social Entrepreneurs. I am in Senior 1. I am one of the members of the Butterfly Project and I live in a small village in Lamwo district of Uganda.
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The Age
September 13th, 2011
You’re here to talk to about your particular brand of activism, Cool Australia. It could be seen as kind of an intergenerational environmentalism. You are trying to educate young people, you are using really clear and plain and simple language. And you’re talking about sustainability and the environment. Could you please start by telling us about the genesis and evolution of Cool Australia?
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IRIN News
May 12th, 2011
Ten years ago Joyce Mhoni, head of the Nutrition Rehabilitation Unit at Ekwendeni Hospital in the Mzimba district of northern Malawi, would have been caring for up to 30 severely malnourished children at a time. Today, at the peak of the usually lean months between December and April, when farmers are waiting to harvest, the unit is empty, and in the whole of 2010 only 15 children were admitted, mostly from outside the hospital’s catchment area.
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Mashable
April 28th, 2011
Can social media make a real difference for a cause? It’s a challenge taken on by Marc Ecko and his Unlimited Justice, a campaign to fight corporal punishment in U.S. schools. More than just an isolated campaign, it’s an example of how the Internet is changing modern activism.
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Our Daily Green Life
April 8th, 2011
To any parent of a child in the last 25-30 years, the name Raffi is synonymous with happy toddler music that didn’t grate on the ears. Raffi is an international sensation among children’s musicians, with his happy folk songs that never spoke down to children, but instead lifted them and their world up.
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