More and more, home builders are looking into eco-friendly alternatives to the standard way of building homes. One new type of home in Colombia is being made from an unlikely and Earth-friendly building material: coffee. But this doesn’t mean perfectly good coffee beans are going to waste; these homes incorporate coffee husks, a disposable byproduct…
Columbian Builder Creates Homes Literally Made of Coffee, Saves the Day After Hurricane Iota
Garbage Collectors Rescue Discarded Books From the Trash, Create Library for the Public
Turkish garbage collectors have decided to salvage what was deemed trash by their clientele as treasure for the public, instead. Repurposing an old brick factory, bookshelves were set up inside and stacked full with discarded books, which had been destined for the incinerator before being collected from the trash. The library operates in the Çankaya…
Birdwatcher Spots Gold Coin in Field, Unearths Hoard of 1,300 Celtic Coins Worth 845,000 Pounds
People across the UK have been unearthing treasures this year. But no one has stumbled across a more valuable find than one UK birdwatcher, who just discovered a hoard of Celtic gold coins worth 845,000 pounds (US$1.176 million). It is being called the largest recorded collection of Celtic coins ever found in the UK mainland….
Sleeping Pods Installed in a German City to Protect Homeless People From Freezing Winter
The German city of Ulm is piloting individual windproof and waterproof sleeping pods to provide shelter for homeless people during the freezing winter months. The pods, dubbed “Ulmer Nests,” will prove life-saving for people in need. The Ulmer Nests were launched on Jan. 8 and were placed in parks and other places where homeless people…
USPS Worker Saves Elderly Woman’s Life After Noticing 3 Days’ Worth of Uncollected Mail
Noticing that an elderly woman on her delivery route hadn’t collected her mail for three days, a USPS worker grew increasingly concerned. However, the phone call she made next has been credited with saving the senior citizen’s life. Shonda Lemon, 34, has worked as a USPS mail carrier in Chicago, Illinois, for eight years. She…
Researchers Drill Through 900 Meters of Ice, Discover Life in Total Darkness Under Antarctic Ice Shelf
In an incredible discovery, polar scientists have sighted marine life on the ocean floor beneath a huge Antarctica ice shelf, an area previously believed to be uninhabited. Planning to collect sediment samples, scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) lowered a camera into a borehole in the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf on the southeastern Weddell Sea….
‘If I Can Do It, Anyone Can’: Former Inmate Graduates With Honors From Cal State Long Beach
A Long Beach man who spent more than three decades in prison recently graduated from Cal State Long Beach this month, with honors. He is now awaiting acceptance into a master’s program in social work at the same university. Joseph Valadez spent half his adult life in prison, but he’s not letting that stop him…
A Philippine City’s ‘Green Program’ Requires Marriage License Applicants to Plant Trees
As part of an initiative to promote greener public spaces, a city in the Philippines now requires couples applying for a marriage license to plant five trees each. Participants are already celebrating the “green legacy” of the program. The City of Borongan in the province of Eastern Samar, Philippines, took to Facebook in December 2020 to…
Veterans Help WWII Hero, 94, Move Back Into House He Built With His Late Wife
A 94-year-old World War II hero, whose home was in a state of disrepair, is being helped by fellow veterans to restore the house he built with his late wife to its former glory. Purple Heart and Bronze Star recipient Alfred Guerra, of San Antonio, Texas, served in the Pacific War during World War II….
Ex-Footballer Turns Luxury ‘Glamping’ Pods Into Shelters for Homeless to Get Back on Their Feet
An ex-footballer in the UK has helped dozens of homeless back on their feet after turning 46 luxury glamping pods into individual shelters. Ex-Man United star Lou Macari, 71, started the project at the beginning of the first national lockdown in March last year, after the pandemic forced him to close his previous shelter in…
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