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Mars 500: Training Astronauts for a Manned Mission to Mars
What happens when you put five astronauts in a small ship for 500 days and fly them to Mars? This is the fourth part in an eight-part series on...
Read & DiscussThe GOOD 100: Wal-Mart's Sustainability Push
The Big Blue-green Monster: Wal-Mart is pushing us toward sustainability more than you could ever imagine. In 2005, Wal-Mart was a piñata that...
Read & DiscussThe Year of Magical Thinking
What the health care debate and the credit crisis have in common Did you hear? Barrack Hussein Obama wants to pull the plug on your granny, so...
Read & DiscussBLDG a Better Architecture Blog
Geoff Manaugh's BLDG BLOG draws daring connections between architecture, science fiction, and pop culture-and draws an audience. If you've...
Read & DiscussThe World’s Most Progressive Company? Wal-Mart, by a Mile
The Beast from Bentonville (and the world's largest private employer) announced that it's backing employer mandates for health care. That's not...
Read & DiscussBetter Choices Through Technology
Can augmented reality technology finally make it easy to do the right thing? Last week was huge for a young technology called "augmented...
Read & DiscussCliff Kuang thinks Wow: “Cash for Clunkers” Passed Yesterday is good.
3 years agoCliff Kuang thinks So Was There Actually Fraud in Iran’s Election? is good.
3 years agoExploration Architecture
Michael Pawlyn's pioneering designs mimic nature's closed-loop systems to help us thrive in extreme resource scarcity. Most "green building"...
Read & DiscussThe Atlas Obscura
Joshua Foer and Dylan Thuras are cataloging the world's weirdest places to foster a new age of curiosity. An enormous concrete dome that seals...
Read & DiscussHome Improvement
Why the problem of fixing our buildings is so vague-and what we can do about it We're hardwired to address the smaller problems that we can...
Read & DiscussCrop and Trade
Eleni Gabre-Madhin knows that efficient markets can save lives. In 1984, she was an undergrad studying economics at Cornell when a famine...
Read & DiscussThe Food of a Younger Land
Mark Kurlansky's new book revives an abandoned WPA writers project. Food journalism almost always focuses on the ideal instead of the...
Read & DiscussCliff Kuang thinks Kill-a-Watt and Other Products That Actually Help is good.
3 years agoDon't Buy Green
Trying to limit your environmental impact? Buying "eco-friendly" stuff doesn't help. Before attending trade shows flogging "green" products, I...
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