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  • This One-Man NGO Is Saving Water One Drop at a Time

    The Drop Dead Foundation, founded and headed up by an 80-year-old man in Mumbai, India, is fighting water waste by fixing leaks, one home at a time. With the world's most precious resource going to waste, lower-income homes in India simply do not have the resources to pay for plumbing services. This is where the foundation steps in.

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  • How a Conservative-Led Australia Ended Mass Killings

    The effectiveness of Australia's gun laws is said to be skewed by its already declining gun violence. The effect is difficult to isolate but new research affirms that the decline accelerated significantly under new gun control measures.

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  • Africa's Future is Clean Energy

    At the mention of “clean energy” in Africa, six countries stand out as beacons of the change to new, clean future energy sources on the continent, boosted by foreign investment.

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  • Another Giant Leap

    The rapid development of emerging economies across Asia and Africa is lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty - but there is much debate as to how to best structure this growth. If these economies evolve in the same way as in the West - with unchecked, excessive resource consumption and heavy pollution - the planet may be on the fast track to disaster. Earthrise explores how these nations can grow sustainably using improved, eco-conscious technologies like renewable energy and eco-friendly farming practices.

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  • 12 Strategies for Moving from Water Scarcity to Abundance

    Israel has an abundance of water and independence from climate conditions through public ownership and government management of all water, a water-respecting culture, and innovative agriculture practices.

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  • Reducing blight is possible, experts say

    Shreveport, Louisiana, faces blight. New Orleans decreased blight by 30 percent by creating an authority for the task, using technology to collect data, and providing residents with information and help.

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  • Amid Failure and Chaos, an Ebola Vaccine

    Westerners' fear of infection of Ebola motivated a vaccine in record time, but a preventive system put in place could ensure similar results for other viruses before they reach the same magnitude.

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  • How the Gun Control Debate Ignores Black Lives

    In the U.S. 200 black men are killed with guns for every 3 people killed in a mass shooting. Little federal attention is given to urban violence programs even though there exists an effective deterrence program implemented in various states.

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  • November in Germany

    Germany admitted around 1 million refugees in 2015. Different parts of the country have experienced success and failure. In Fischen, housing refugees is still a challenge, but business mentors have found a success in training refugees how to do jobs. The city of Stuttgart ran into a crisis housing refugees. However 3,000 volunteers are helping to control the situation. In the east, Halle housed refugees in the center part of its city, inside a “deluxe hotel.” The refugees are susceptible to hateful rhetoric, but there are demonstrators on both sides of the debate.

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  • Listopad v Německu

    Do Německa přicházejí každým dnem tisíce uprchlíků. Jen v roce 2015 jich země přijala zhruba milion. Tato situace přináší do různých oblastí Německa nové výzvy, kterým musí místní čelit. Ve městě Stuttgard zase s integrací uprchlíků, kteří nemají kde bydlet, pomáhají 3 tisíce dobrovolníků. Východoněmecké město Halle krizi s ubytováním imigrantů vyřešilo tak, že jim vyhradilo celý hotel v centru města. To vadí části místních, podle kterých jde o „příliš luxusní“ bydlení. Panuje zde často vyhrocená debata.

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