Quote:Ten years ago, Georgina Miranda couldn’t even run a mile.  One day, she read an article about atrocities in Congo that inspired her to do something.

So, like any normal super human, she decided to transform herself in order to climb the highest peak on each continent to raise money for charity.

This March, Georgina and three other amazing women – Emma Walker, Jessica Hamel, and Elizabeth Williams – will tackle the highest peak in Mexico – Pico de Orizaba – a volcano reaching 18,491 feet.

Quote:They bonded over a book — and used their connections to successfully fight for human rights.

Quote:The kind people also fed all of the dogs, so they didn’t go to bed with an empty stomach.

Quote:'Ma'am, you look like you're having a bad day. Can I give you a hug?' The moment a quick-thinking bus driver pulls over to talk down a suicidal woman from jumping off a bridge

   Damone Hudson from Dayton, Ohio was on his regular bus route when he noticed a woman on the wrong side of the safety rail
   He pulled his bus over and got out to try and convince the woman to step back
   Damone ended up remaining with the woman until the police showed up and took the woman to safety

Quote:Florida Power & Light commissioned 225 megawatts of new solar energy this week in South Florida and committed to building eight new solar power plants by early 2018.

Quote:Every year since 1988 there has been a walk along this route in memory of the Doolough dead and to highlight the starvation of the world’s poor still today. Archbishop Desmond Tutu has done it, the children of Chernobyl have done it. So has the Cellist of Sarajevo, Vedran Smailovic who played daily in his city despite sniper fire in the 1990s while it was under siege. And Kim Phuc - the woman who was made famous in photographs of her as a girl running naked and burned by napalm in Vietnam - she has done it too.

As have Native American Indians. When they learnt of the tragedy in 1849, members of the Choctaw tribe raised $710 which they donated to Irish famine relief. They did so because the story reminded them of their own plight when, 18 years earlier, they were forcibly removed from their land by the white man to make way for modern day Oklahoma. Their march was some 500 miles and they lost lives along the way. The Indians’ march became known as the Trail of Tears.

In 1992 a group of Irish people returned the Choctaw Indians’ kindness by walking the Trail of Tears, raising a huge $710,000 which they donated to famine relief in Africa.

Quote:Based on Seva Cafe: "Your meal was a gift from someone who came before you. To keep the chain of gifts alive, we invite you to pay it forward for those who dine after you." That's Karma Kitchen, a volunteer-driven experiment in generosity.

Quote:Ahead of the People's Climate March, Senators Jeff Merkley, Bernie Sanders and Ed Markey stood beside movement leaders to introduce legislation that will completely phase out fossil fuel use by 2050. The "100 by '50 Act" outlines a bold plan to support workers and to prioritize low-income communities while replacing oil, coal and gas with clean energy sources like wind and solar.

Quote:Deep in the woods southwest of Atlanta, Serenbe is a unique designed community — a mixed-use development, with clusters of villages comprised of townhouses and apartments fueled by solar panels and heated and cooled by geothermal systems, and vast open spaces with organic farms, natural waste water treatment systems, and preserved forests.

Quote:Rights for many intelligent animals could hinge on a one-word edit in a law dictionary.

Quote:A host of new technologies have been inspired by the natural world, as designers increasingly look to biomimicry when to creatinge new ideas for wind turbines, solar cells and hydropower. So could nature hold the answer to unlocking renewable energy?

Quote:While filming “Blood Diamond,” Leo DiCaprio says he was horrified to learn the brutality mining funded in Africa—so he invested in Diamond Foundry.

(05-21-2017, 10:43 PM)flofrog Wrote: Thank you Nía  !!!  I have been away and working hard and missed your posts a lot !!!!

tons of love !!!