Archive of: Global Brief and NAPC

	Title	Issue
	Easy Does It Try these green ways to clear sidewalks and driveways to get rid of winter’s white stuff.	January 2013
	Green Christmas Try these fresh ways to tweak family traditions for a greener holiday this and every year.	December 2012
	Smog Begone In the past 50 years, California’s Los Angeles Basin has shown a 98 percent decrease in levels of some vehicle-related air pollutants even as area denizens now burn three times as much gasoline and diesel fuel. How is that possible?	December 2012
	Leaf Relief Recent urban studies have discovered that an increase in trees in a given area leads to a corresponding decrease in crime.	December 2012
	Many Tongues The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948, has been translated into more than 380 languages and dialects, making it the world’s most universal communication.	December 2012
	Good News The 46th annual Kwanzaa, an African-American holiday celebrated from December 26 to January 1 that honors the values of ancient African cultures, may be observed by as many as 18 million people this year.	December 2012
	Bird Brains The National Audubon Society has found that bird species have taken decades to adjust their ranges northward in response to warming winters.	December 2012
	Coming Clean The consumer watchdog Environmental Working Group has released a new Cleaners Hall of Shame database that ranks more than 2,000 household cleaners by how hazardous their ingredients are and how much information is on their labels.	December 2012
	Smiley Face DonorsChoose.org has provided a record $40 million in funding for 300,000 U.S. classroom projects, by personalizing public appeals for charitable giving.	December 2012
	Tech Revolution The U.S. Secretary of Energy is spearheading a new wave of renewable energy research by recruiting top scientists to staff a new agency called ARPAE, modeled after DARPA, the research and development wing of the Pentagon that invented the Internet.	December 2012