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From Earth911's Alexis Petru: Planning a home improvement project this spring? Whether you’re simply painting a room or undertaking an entire...
From Earth911's Alexis Petru: Planning a home improvement project this spring? Whether you’re simply painting a room or undertaking an entire...
Gary A. Officer | Posted 01.09.2012
Our first step began Army Specialist Ryan C. Major. In 2006, Specialist Major suffered severe wounds from an IED. Upon his return home, his mother agonized about the uncertainty of her son's future.
Tracey E. Vitchers | Posted 11.15.2011
After an F-5 tornado hit Greensburg, Kansas in May 2007 and destroyed 95 percent of the town, the New York Says Thank You Foundation traveled to the t...
Stacey McMahan | Posted 10.15.2011
Recovery in Haiti will continue for decades, properly implementing education on safe structures are just the first steps down the long path.
Gary A. Officer | Posted 10.11.2011
Deficit reduction will hurt those that are most vulnerable: our nation's low-income and lower-middle class families, the backbone of America, living on the precipice of unthinkable loss.
Stacey McMahan | Posted 09.13.2011
The CNIAH's resurrection and role in helping to revitalize Haiti is an important step toward a sustainable and stable recovery after the devastating earthquake.
Stephenie Foster | Posted 09.26.2011
This is more than a book about one woman and her desire to help Afghans find their own way. It is a story of the daily dangers Angela and colleagues face, the trauma that can accompany their work, and the difficulty they have reentering society.
Gary A. Officer | Posted 07.30.2011
As we contemplate the courage of our fallen heroes, let us also pay homage to the allegiance of our enlisted men and women and our veteran community.
Stacey McMahan | Posted 05.25.2011
As it stands, we're building the bridge in Haiti as we walk across, but our work is essential and is making a difference -- one safe building at a time.
Richard Walden | Posted 05.25.2011
I urge the donating public to take it slowly and deliberately. Better to carefully sort through relief agencies' descriptions of what they plan to do over the next month to two years in Japan to help it recover.
Cameron Sinclair | Posted 05.25.2011
For those not used to working in disasters, the first week is chaotic. It is not the time for architects to show up to rebuild. People are trying to find their loved ones, not think about what their lives will look like in 10 years.
Cameron Sinclair | Posted 05.25.2011
Haitians didn't ask for the task of rebuilding their country, but they are bound together by it. We are lucky to get to support their vision and to build strong foundations for future generations.
Cameron Sinclair | Posted 05.25.2011
The outcome of Southern Sudan's upcoming election is pointing towards a new nation state and the international community will rally around its birth. The real issue is whether the international community will help or hinder.
Cameron Sinclair | Posted 05.25.2011
This is what my mum used to say to me. I didn't realize what it actually meant but as a nine year old I took it to mean -- don't just talk about something, do it.
AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The U.S. official charged with combating corruption in the multibillion-dollar effort to rebuild Afghanistan failed Thursday to con...
Cameron Sinclair | Posted 05.25.2011
This year's World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa is set in the heart of Morocco and it took quite a journey to get from Savannah to Marrakech.
AP | JONATHAN M. KATZ | Posted 05.25.2011
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Former U.S. President Bill Clinton expressed frustration Saturday over the slow pace of Haiti's earthquake recovery, but...
Cameron Sinclair | Posted 05.25.2011
For all the talk on "design for change," it is those who are on the ground and challenged every day that prove that creativity is an instinctive trait in the human ability to survive.
Cameron Sinclair | Posted 05.25.2011
The last thing we need to do is implement a broken system of top down 'hand out' relief. It is our mission to make sure that we are building back better but also in a sustainable manner, not just environmentally but economically too.
HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011
For the past three years, Jean Chandler, 42, has been trying to figure out what to do with the six giant cedar wood doors piled up in the office of hi...
AP | MICHAEL KUNZELMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS — A mother of four feels trapped in the same New Orleans public housing complex from which she was rescued when flood waters ravaged...
Posted 05.25.2011
In the land of such blues legends as Muddy Waters and B.B. King, life is not as bad as it could be. In spite of the recent oil spill, Hurricane Katrin...
Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011
As civil society groups try to figure out where they fit into Haiti's quest for "development," movements for workers' rights are emerging as a counterweight to the aid agencies often associated with oppressive neo-imperialism.
Michael DeJong | Posted 05.25.2011
After a tornado destroyed 95% of the town, Greensburg, Kansas reinvented itself by striving to become the greenest community imaginable.
Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 05.25.2011
The mayors from Haiti's Central Plateau region gathered in a stuffy auditorium in the town of Pandiassou. Dressed in short-sleeved shirts and casual p...
Earth911 | Posted 02.28.2012