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Australian surfer Josh Kerr wears a wetsuit on the beach, overlooking the water. He holds a surfboard made from recycled wind turbines

Second wind: Retired wind turbine blades recycled into innovative surfboards

Pro surfer Josh Kerr has partnered with renewable energy company ACCIONA to create the prototype.

On the left: a white mansion framed by trees and a blue sky. On the right: Travis Kelce, a white man with a beard and mustache wearing a white baseball cap smiles.

Travis Kelce transforms $3.3M mansion into transitional housing for homeless youth

The nonprofit, Foster Love, helps young adults who aged out of foster care find permanent housing during the “transitional ages” of 18 to 24.

A green art sculpture depicting a blanket, backpack, and homeless person leaning up against a wall on a city street.

New study reveals unifying theme behind homelessness — and it's not drug use

Although addiction and mental health disorders are shared struggles for many people experiencing homelessness, there is another trait that unifies unhoused people.

House W, a tiny home covered in solar panels and timber, sits on a snowy plateau in Japan

This net-zero tiny home generates almost double the energy it needs — here's how

House W utilizes a ‘solar skin’ of 56 panels to generate all the off-grid energy it needs — and more.

A woman stands in the entrance of a tiny home made from a decommissioned wind turbine nacelle at Dutch Design Week

Decommissioned wind turbine redesigned as eco-friendly tiny home, scalable to build '2,000 houses a year'

Designers estimate that thousands of wind turbines worldwide will be decommissioned in the coming years, offering a “gold mine” of new resources.

A vending machine carrying naloxone and xylazine test strips sits in an outdoor courtyard at Father Joe's Villages of San Diego

San Diego vending machines aim to curb 'tranq' overdoses in homeless shelters

Along with offering naloxone, these vending machines provide life-saving test strips, in an effort to decrease accidental overdoses.

A discarded needle sits on a city street

A large majority of homeless people in California are not actually illicit drug users, study finds

The study, published in JAMA last month, examined the relationship between homelessness and substance use.

A photo collage of an aerial view of a solar farm, a woman walks up a hill with a stick, a Spotify playlist screenshot of the 'Is This What We Want?" album by 1,000 UK Artists, a mother and son posing for the camera, and a crowd looking at the SS United States -- a historic ocean liner

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A person stands outside of a red tent in a Safe Sleeping lot in San Diego, California

San Diego safe-sleeping 'camps' offer urgent alternative to overcrowded homeless shelters

The low-barrier option gives people a safe place to stay in the face of a rising homelessness crisis.

A string of biodegradable Mardi Gras beads is made from 3D-printed bio-based plastics. The gold, purple, and green beads sit on a plain black backdrop.

Mardi Gras beads take up to 500 years to decompose, so these LSU students designed a biodegradable alternative

The PlantMe Beads have been nearly four years in the making.

A shipping container home sits near a bayou in Louisiana under a navy blue night sky

Hurricane Katrina survivor builds 'durable' shipping container homes for others displaced by disaster

After living through his own share of loss, Joshua Clark has created affordable homes to withstand future disasters.

A white house made from a shipping container has green doors and a red, solar-paneled roof

Shipping containers once part of Arizona border wall transformed into homes for youth leaving foster care

The makeshift wall along the U.S.-Mexico border was created by former Arizona Governor Doug Ducey. Now, its pieces have been given a new life.