Join MY HERO in observing World Habitat Day, which calls on us to reflect on our cities and towns and the basic right of all to adequate shelter.
Watch this Film Festival winning film from Respectful Revolution
Building a Shower Trailer for Chico's Houseless on a Budget... of Love!
By: Respectful Revolution
This video is one of the latest from the Respectful Revolution project that is dedicated to documenting humane solutions to our world's many challenges.
Dr. John Todd: A Sewer Becomes
a Water Park with floating botanical gardens that are helping restore ecological health.
Rowena Gerber
By: Wendy Jewell
Rowena Gerber
and her students raise money to send Solar Ovens around the world.
J.A. and Geraldine Reynolds
By: Claudia Hudson
J.A. and Geraldine Reynolds
Founded 'Bruce's Garden' in NYC which honors Bruce, a victim of 9/11.
Angela Brooks
By: Susannah Abbey
Angela Brooks is an architect who works to create sustainable and affordable housing.
Millard and Linda Fuller
By: Karen Pritzker
Millard and Linda Fuller
founded Habitat for Humanity.
Michael Reynolds, Garbage Warrior
By: Wendy Jewell
Michael Reynolds, Garbage Warrior
combines biology and architecture to build sustainable housing.
Ray Anderson
By: Jennifer Beck
Ray Anderson is a pioneer of environmental technologies.
Hany El-Miniawy
Hany El-Miniawy
is an Egyptian architect who uses architecture to help alleviate poverty.
Jean Enock Joseph teaches self-help to lift Haiti
By: Ed Stocker <br> Contributor of The Christian Science Monitor<br> <h5>Permiss...
Pastor Jean Enock Joseph doesn't shy from Haiti's toughest problems. His message: Haitians have the ability to help themselves.
Green roofs in Nairobi save energy, water
By: Gitonga Njeru <br> AlertNet <br> <h5>Permission to use this material<br> was...
Kenyan architects are designing buildings with green roofs covered in vegetation to cool their interiors, conserve energy and water, and help curb greenhouse-gas emissions.
Henry Red Cloud: a solar warrior for native America
By: Talli Nauman<br> YES! Magazine <br> <h5>Permission to use this material<br> ...
Henry Red Cloud returned to Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to found Lakota Solar Enterprises, which builds and installs solar-heating equipment that saves low-income families money on heating bills.
Barefoot College and Microformers shine as innovative power solutions
By: Pete Mercouriou <br> Global Envision <br> <h5>Permission to use this materia...
Institutions like India's Barefoot College, which teaches women how to run and repair solar installations, and projects like Microformers, which converts old microwave ovens into transformers, show ways to generate cheap electricity in poor regions.
Versatile engines power up rural African villages
By: Sheldon Yoder <br> Nourishing the Planet<br> <h5>Permission to use this mate...
Multifunction platforms (MFPs), engines powered by diesel or local vegetable oil, can do everything from turning on the lights to milling grain and powering tools.
Sandra Begay-Campbell
By: Sue from California
Sandra Begay-Campbell
is a Native American engineer who brings solar-powered energy to the Navajo reservation.
Is Rio de Janeiro the world's first 'smart' city?
By: Jean Payton <br> Global Envision<br> <h5>Permission to use this material<br>...
Rio de Janeiro uses IBM's Smart Cities technology to coordinate its city services in real time, from responding to emergencies to unsnarling traffic.
Sister Margaret Scheetz
By: Elaine from Youngstown, Ohio
Sister Margaret Scheetz founded Beatitude House for homeless women and children.
Tri Mumpuni Iskandar
By: Sara Schonhardt<br> Correspondent of Christian Science Monitor<br> <h5>Permi...
Tri Mumpuni Iskandar wants to bring hydropower to the 90 million Indonesians without electricity.
Bringing quicker, easier solar power to rural Africa
By: Philip Newell <br> Nourishing The Planet <br> <h5>Permission to use this mat...
SolarNexus custom designs small solar power systems so that they can be easily installed in the field, providing a kick-start to the local economy.
Josue and Chrismedonne Lajeunesse
By: David Kelly
Josue and Chrismedonne Lajeunesse
work together to provide access to clean water for their village of La Source, Haiti.
Art
The Villager
My Little Village
Homeless waiting to eat
Film
The Friendship Shelter
By: Addie Rubino & Wendy Milette
A documentary exploring the issues of homelessness and honoring the Laguna Beach Friendship Shelter for their heroic work.
UN-Habitat works for a better urban future. It promotes the development of socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements and strives for adequate shelter with better living standards for all.
A global nonprofit housing organization working in local communities across all 50 states in the U.S. and in approximately 70 countries. Habitat’s vision is of a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
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