The 10 Happiest Cities In The World
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No More Toxic Pesticides. We Can Grow Safe Ones From Mushrooms
Biopesticides grown from fungi, insects, or other plants are starting to replace chemical pesticides as a less poisonous (for people, that is) way to keep crops insect-free.
Saving Cheetahs By Making Them Friends With Farmers
The Cheetah Conservation Fund works to teach farmers how to live together with the speedy predator and helps preserve the big cat’s habitat by making a new fuel source for locals from cleared bush. Everybody wins.
A Site To Help You Make Decisions That You Won’t Regret
SentioSearch gives you advice from the crowd based on the past decisions of people like you, so that you never have to kick yourself the next day.
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A New Vaccine For Drinking Could Keep Alcoholics Sober
After getting an injection, the drug makes just one drink give you an instant, horrible hangover.
A Floating School That Won’t Flood
Designed for a flood-prone area of Nigeria, this school would keep students in school even after the heaviest rains.
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How To Design Products For People Making $2 A Day
Written by: Rachael Chong
Proximity Designs is a for-profit design company whose goal is to create products cheap enough--and good enough--that they can be bought by poor farmers, instead of just giving them aid.
