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After achieving meteoric success with his buy-one-give-one model of shoe retailing, the Toms founder is reflecting on what other businesses can do to give back--and even giving back a little more himself.

Back in the 1910s, my Grandpa Jack was working in a shoe store, but he had bigger aspirations. So, he put a few machines in the back of the store and made socks and stockings on the side. As business picked up, he started building his own textiles factories, one of which I worked at during college.

For most Americans, as the nation's thoughts turn to the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, memories of that day readily come flooding back. People can remember with great clarity what they were doing or to whom they were speaking when they learned of the crisis--whether via a sister's phone call or a first-hand glimpse of the World Trade Center on fire. [More]

From Nature magazine Fatu, a female northern white rhinoceros who lives in a Kenyan conservation park, is one of just seven of her kind left in the world. But millions of her stem cells, stored in a freezer in California, might one day help boost her population's ranks.

Cause marketing has been proven to boost sales, engagement, and customer loyalty, but are the new models of embedded generosity a passing fad or the new fundamental?

In the three years since

It's hard to know what products mean when they say they are "environmentally friendly" or "fully compostable," but there are rules about what companies can and can't claim about their products.

For months, many New York City firefighters worked in the toxic air at ground zero, digging through the rubble of the World Trade Center. Now, as Dr

In chef Gabrielle Hamilton's best-selling memoir Blood, Bones & Butter , she tells of running into a colleague on the street, where he introduced her to his mother as "one of the two best female chefs in New York City." Hamilton, owner of beloved East Village restaurant Prune and newly minted James Beard Award winner, then turned to the mother and cracked, "You know what would be great next? If we could just take the word 'female' out of the sentence." Yes, women chefs are still definitely a minority, even though the likes of Hamilton, Nancy Silverton (Los Angeles's Osteria Mozza), Stephanie Izard (Chicago's Girl & the Goat)—and of course the old-school game changers Alice Waters and Lydia Bastianich before them—run wildly popular, critically praised establishments. So how do female chefs not only deal, but thrive in a notoriously macho industry

We tend to take easy, safe access to potable water for granted until there's a shortage in access to it (like in Texas) or an overflow (as with Hurricane Irene). And in reality, there are a number of water risks that the world will face in the coming years, including deteriorating water quality, growing competition for limited access to resources, and an increase in water scarcity. The World Resource Institute's Water Risk Atlas outlines those risks--and gives a preview of what you can expect in your town or city in the coming years.

Monday, September 05 With all the hot dogs and beer, it's easy to forget the labor part of Labor Day. President Grover Cleveland instituted this work-free Monday in 1894, choosing the date to both recognize the Central Labor Union's labor day and avoid associating the holiday with May 1, the labor day celebrated by the International Workers of the World and marked by the 1886 Haymarket riots

Rather than fundraise, a famous philanthropist plays the market. Cousteau's newest adventure won't require such a puffy jacket. | Courtesy of CNN For the past few years, Philippe Cousteau Jr

I was lifting weights at my gym, a community center in New York City, when he caught my attention. His name, I later found out, was Marvin Moster. He stood a few inches over five feet, mostly bald with some white hair on the sides of his head, sporting a mustache, and wearing a light blue shirt and dark blue shorts.

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - La Nina, a weather phenomenon typically linked to flooding in the Asia-Pacific, African drought and a more intense hurricane season over the Atlantic, could occur in a weak form this year, the World Meteorological Organization said Thursday. [More]

Designed to be as environmentally friendly as possible in its materials and its suction, Cambridge Consultant's Stem vacuum cleaner gets things clean using 43% less energy.