Things Are Good

The African country of Malawi is expanding a successful program that gave out free drugs to fight AIDs. The country is founding a new company to make the drugs for their people and to export drugs to their neighbours.
“Some 250,000 Malawians are receiving ARVs. We are doing well because many of these could have [...]

You may already now that Sears Tower is getting a huge energy retrofit costing $350 million because it’s got a lot of media attention. Still, it’s really good to see old office towers see the benefit of spending a lot of money on increasing efficiency of their buildings.
Operators of the nearly 36-year-old, 110-story building say [...]

Respect: A photo odyssey celebrating Canada’s boreal forest is currently on exhibit at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto and it looks amazing. I encourage anyone in or near Toronto to check it out.

Images tell stories that might otherwise not be heard. Nowadays, we like snapping pictures to capture our very own. We use our cameras [...]

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston has done a study on the real cost of building a green home and they have busted the myth that building green is too costly. The bank has concluded that building green doesn’t break the bank, so to speak.
The intuitive view of most people might be that building green [...]

Mashable has put together a short collection of five good uses of social media this summer. It’s good to see all these practical uses for social media and hopefully we’ll see some real world changers come out of these initiatives.
People are talking green online. Between the Obama administration’s unwavering focus on environmental initiatives as [...]

The Day Grid Balancer is a printable guide to help people who work too much bring back some living into their life. The author is open about the fact that it won’t work for everyone so he encourages you to download the source files and edit the document to reflect your thinking, luckily he posted [...]