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A History in the Making
Written by: Joan Melcher, Wednesday 22 April 2009 - 04:30 PM 
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Julie Cajune leads a groundbreaking Montana initiative to compile American-Indian history and include it in public education.
The Ecologist and the Prisoners
Written by: Valerie Brown, Tuesday 24 February 2009 - 05:00 PM 0 Comments
Professor Nalini Nadkarni enlists a Washington state prison in sustainability research that has turned the prison green — and may help convicts turn their lives around.
The Man Who Bridges Troubled Waters
Written by: Tom Jacobs, Monday 29 December 2008 - 08:00 PM 2 Comments
Aaron Wolf mediates disputes, helping enemies realize that no one deserves to have the water shut off.
Inventing for Peanuts
Written by: Bob Burtman, Tuesday 04 November 2008 - 08:40 PM 0 Comments
Jock Brandis invented a low-cost, people-powered peanut sheller that could raise millions out of poverty around the world. Now, if someone would just come up with the money to distribute it.
Clean Start
Written by: Colleen Shaddox, Tuesday 23 September 2008 - 02:00 PM 2 Comments
Joanne Goldblum saw poor people reusing disposable diapers and had to do something. Her nonprofit, The Diaper Bank, now gives 150,000 diapers a month to people in need.
- 1 Triumph of the Cyborg Composer
- 2 The Down Side of Self-Control
- 3 Wonking Week: Art, Phosphorus and the Nanny State
- 4 The History of Mardi Gras Beadwhores
- 5 Think on This: Meditation May Protect Your Brain
- 6 The Story of P(ee)
- 7 Unmasking Mardi Gras Deviants
- 8 Simply Rwandan
- 9 Snowmaggedon Backs All Climate Change Views
- 10 The Rational Ruffian: Why Crime Pays