The mission of Boston-based nonprofit Bikes Not Bombs? “Using the bicycle as a vehicle for social change.” What started as a group of passionate cyclists in 1984 providing aid bicycles to people in ...

Zac Clark was a freshman at the University of San Francisco when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. He moved out of his dorm and into the Tenderloin, a low-income neighborhood in the Bay Area. From his ...

Plastic has become such a ubiquitous material in our daily lives because, up until recently, there hasn’t really been anything like it. It’s strong and durable, relatively cheap to make, and easy to ...

Global solar installations are up 64% in the first half of 2025. There’s no denying it: More and more of the world is running on solar power. And with that growth comes even more innovation. In a new ...

Scientists already know that nature is medicine, with some doctors even prescribing visits to national parks as a way to reduce stress and inflammation. But researchers at the University of Copenhagen ...

For high school students in the Boulder Valley School District in Boulder, Colorado, shop class just got an upgrade. As part of the Boulder MOD project, these students spend part of their school day ...

St. John’s Lutheran Church has sat on a downtown corner of Madison, Wisconsin — just three blocks from the state Capitol — for nearly 170 years. But its leaders are now working to demolish it. “St.

Incoming students at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia have a new option for housing this year: Repurposed shipping containers. Named Maroon Village, a new neighborhood of student housing opens up ...

What if public art could also power an entire residential building? The SunRise Building, an apartment complex in Alberta, Canada, has answered that question — and is now the title holder of the ...

When Texan high schoolers Samuel Skotnikov, Changyoung Kim, and Eeshaan Prashanth found out that their friend Aiden’s prosthetic leg was uncomfortable and difficult to use, they decided to make him a ...

Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old running for Congress in Illinois’ 9th congressional district, isn’t shy about her belief that politicians need to do things differently. “We have a representation ...

When leadership at Harrison School District 2 in Colorado Springs, Colorado toured a tiny home village for young people in poverty created by local nonprofit We Fortify, they left feeling inspired.