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Dial-a-fish for the best seafood choice

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A new text messaging service can tell you everything you need to know about that piece of fish you're thinking of eating.
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Recycling in cyberspace

Arizona based Freecycle.org keeps tons of trash out of landfills by offering a "cyber-sharing" clearinghouse....
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Healthy and affordable food for inner city areas

Pennsylvania State Representative Dwight Evans is bringing grocery stores back to inner city areas....
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Swedish Body Heat

The body heat from the hundreds of thousands of commuters who use Stockholm's Central Station will be harnessed to heat a nearby office building....
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Wind energy for homeowners

A small company in Nevada is testing the efficiency of their vertical turbines, and the clean-energy windmills may soon be on the market for homeowners....
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Recycling Energy

A enterprising energy company recycles heat from smokestacks to create electricity without burning additional fossil fuels....
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Growing coffee in Honduras

Fellow Man International, a community development group in Honduras , is using coffee production to lift the region out of poverty....
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Helping school children in Zimbabwe

The story of how a retired New York couple came to the aid of school children in Zimbabwe -- with books, bicycles, and everything in between....
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E-waste Youth Activist

An interview with a young entrepreneur who refurbishes computers for kids in the U.S. and around the world....
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TOM's Shoes

Blake Mycoskie is a social entrepreneur who sells shoes here to put shoes on the feet of poor children in Argentina....
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