10 smiles week 18

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it. Andy Rooney

1) Eight firms including British Gas, B&Q and Tesco took part in a Climate Group event to promote the "We're In This Together" message.  The idea of the Climate Group's campaign is for businesses, communities and the Government to provide practical ideas of how individuals can reduce their carbon footprint.

2) PITTSBURGH, April 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bayer Corporation announced today on National Arbor Day it has joined the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign and, through its Bayer Foundation, pledged to plant 100,000 trees to help reverse climate change and reforest America's national parks.

3) Woman pays for Wal-Mart shopper's groceries.

4) A couple picking up trash along a roadside found a winning scratch-off lottery ticket that led them to a $1,000 jackpot.

5) Plans to boost energy efficiency start getting traction in Congress.

6) Farm Rescue Back at Work.

7) Rescue leads to new life for horses saved from slaughterhouse.

8) Genetic Discrimination Ban Clears House; Senate OK Expected.

9) China moves to shrink its carbon footprint.

10) Dalai Lama to Attend Buddhist Conference in Hamburg

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