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At 5 a.m. on any given day, Anne Mahlum could be found running the dark streets of Philadelphia -- with homeless men cheering her on as she passed their shelter. But one morning last spring, she stopped in her tracks.

"Why am I running past these guys?" recalls Mahlum, 27. "I'm moving my life forward every day -- and these guys are standing in the same spot."   Read more...

I just came across an article in the San Francisco Chronicle on how volunteers near San Francisco Bay are using mats of human hair and oyster mushrooms to help clean up the 58,000 gallons of spilled heavy bunker fuel that's washing ashore.

The hair comes from Bay Area salons that are sent to Georgia to get woven into these mats. These mats work perfectly to clean up the globs of oil that are left in the bay. Once the mats are used, you can layer them with mushrooms (which will absorb the oil) and straw and in 12 weeks it turns into good soil.   Read more...