More Haiti Relief Updates from Service For Peace

As an immediate response, SFP members in Santo Domingo and Miami are currently organizing donations of food, clothing and medicine. The contact person in Santo Domingo is Melidad Polanco, mpolanco @ servicioparalapaz.org, 809.919.2657. In Miami, SFP is working in partnership with Miami Dade College North Campus. The contact person is Harold Silva, hsilva @ mdc.edu, [...]

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Promising New Glass ‘Sponge’ May Remove Toxic Contaminants from Water

A new material developed by Dr. Paul Edmiston of the College of Wooster in Ohio offers an innovative way to remove toxic contaminants from ground water. The material, called Obsorb,  is a reactive glass that swells like a sponge.  Like conventional glass, it does not absorb water, yet unlike conventional glass, it can bond with [...]

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Survival of the ‘kindest”

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are challenging long-held beliefs that human beings are wired to be selfish. In a wide range of studies, social scientists are amassing a growing body of evidence to show we are evolving to become more compassionate and collaborative in our quest to survive and thrive. In contrast to [...]

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Usher Raymond IV’s Non-Profit Organization, Usher’s New Look, Takes Powered By Service Initiative to the International Stage at the Global Peace Convention

Grammy Award Winner and Humanitarian Usher Raymond IV brought Powered By Service, an initiative from his non-profit  Usher’s New Look, to the Global Peace Convention in the Philippines from December 10-14, 2009. Powered by Service was launched at the Clinton Global Initiative in September 2009,  and works in partnership with the United Nations Foundation to [...]

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