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The Greening of Yellowstone
August 19, 2010 by Lydia Dishman for Fast Company
Even if you’ve never set foot in Yellowstone National Park, you know its iconic natural splendors: Old Faithful, Mammoth Hot Springs, and the like. What you may not know— even if you’ve been there—is that Yellowstone is the largest essentially untouched ecosystem in the lower 48 states. And while its status as a national park means its "protected," that doesn’t mean its 2.2 million acres are safe. Far from it, in fact.Tags: fast company, national parks, yellowstone national park, recycling
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Mother to Many
August 19, 2010 by Sarah Birke for The Christian Science Monitor
Fawzia al-Thiab stands surrounded by five children in their kitchen. This wouldn't be an extraordinary picture in Syria, but these are not Ms. Thiab's children, and their house is one of 12 similar houses in SOS Children's Village, an orphanage in Qodsaya, north of Damascus, Syria.Tags: syria, the christian science monitor, orphans, foster parents
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People Making a Difference: Johnny Rivas
August 9, 2010 by Stephanie Hanes for The Christian Science Monitor
The intense midafternoon sun is cooking the quiet town plaza here when Johnny Rivas returns on his motorbike, still wearing his oversized white suit. He looks exhausted. Over the past few hours Mr. Rivas has emceed a workers' day celebration for Haitian immigrants, hosted a church ceremony, and shaken hundreds of hands. He has sung along to both the Haitian and Dominican Republic's national anthems and has rented and returned 200-some folding chairs. And, most important, over and over he has given his pitch about identification badges – the central part of his effort to formalize the region's vast and marginalized Haitian workforce.Tags: the christian science monitor, haiti, dominican republic, immigrants
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The Wolf Man
August 2, 2010 by Corinne Garcia for The Christian Science Monitor
Doug Smith was alone, setting traps in the backcountry of Yellowstone National Park, when he got that eerie feeling that he was being watched. He looked up directly into the piercing eyes of a female wolf, just feet away. As project leader of Yellowstone's wolf reintroduction program, one might assume Dr. Smith has this type of encounter all the time. But in 16 years on the job, he's rarely been face to face with the wolves he studies.Tags: the christian science monitor, conservation, wolves, endangered species
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Dancing For a Chance
July 27, 2010 by Sara Miller Llana for The Christian Science Monitor
Had Yarisel Castro, a petite, soft-spoken young woman from a tough neighborhood of Cartagena, not found El Colegio del Cuerpo (The Body School), she says she would probably be what most of her school friends are today: a teenage mom with no career prospects. Cartagena, Colombia, conjures up the image of a Spanish colonial paradise on the Caribbean Sea. But in the sprawling slums on its margins, girls like Ms. Castro show another face of this port city, where racism, rigid social classes, and a lack of education hold many down.Tags: the christian science monitor, dance, teachers, poverty, columbia
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Innovation for Good
July 21, 2010 by Ariel Schwartz for Fast Company
How do you win a major sustainability award from MIT? Simultaneously tackle health care and clean water in the developing world like Dr. BP Agrawal, the founder of Sustainable Innovations--a seven year-old nonprofit that builds self-sustaining projects in rural villages.Tags: fast company, india, mit, water, healthcare, sustainability
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Teaching Gratitude
July 21, 2010 by Paul Van Slambrouck for The Christian Science Monitor
As Greg Johnson was dealing with a serious illness in his family, the thought came to him, light as a feather, that along with his grief and worry, he was feeling bolstered by something powerful, but unexpected. Gratitude.Tags: the christian science monitor, teachers, creativity, gratitude
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Too Much TV?
July 21, 2010 by Ethan Watters
Like many parents, Linda Pagani, a psychologist at the University of Montreal, long suspected that watching too much television might not be the best thing for the cognitive and emotional development of children. For years the rule for her three children has been no TV between Sunday and Thursday nights. Now, whenever her kids grumble about the prohibition, she has some startling research of her own to show them.Tags: television, research, parenting
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