A group in Miami named “Take Back the Land” decided that vacant homes could be put to good use. Working with the bank and government, this group helps homeless families stay in vacant homes temporarly. read this to learn more
This story is a background to my peace project (Make Cranes, Not War) –
The story of Sadako and 1,000 paper cranes
Sadako Sasaki was a Japanese girl who was a victim of the atomic bomb. She was one of many children in a hospital with leukemia and little hope of survival. Inspired by a friend of [...]
So I live in Portland, Oregon and have lived here for over 10 years and have never been to a Trailblazers game (our national basketball team). I think it wasn’t very open to it so I decided it wasn’t for me. I didn’t really like sports growing up in high school or college and I [...]
Tonight I went to my first local neighborhood community meeting. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I was happliy surprised by how cool and thoughtful it was.
Topics that came up: the local high school is building a neighborhood garden that will allow neighbors to sign up and have their own plot of land as [...]
This is a cool story: a small town in Spain has covered mausoleums at its cemetery with solar panels in order to generate power, it’s very inspirational! If only the U.S. could be inventive like that, but let’s hope this idea spreads.