To save resources and maybe this planet, there are many important changes that can take place at home, in corporations, and in governmental policy. Those are all great and important in their own way. Some changes, though, may not require as many resources as we might expect.

Listen to this podcast from NPR’s World Story of the Day:

http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=1056

In Cairo Slum, the Poor Spark Environmental Change

“In one of the city’s poorest areas, residents who recycle trash by hand and a handful of environmental activists are slowly improving their community. Their efforts serve as an unlikely model for environmental change in an age of global warming.”