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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 & DiscussExploration 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 & DiscussDon't Buy Green
Trying to limit your environmental impact? Buying "eco-friendly" stuff doesn't help. Before attending trade shows flogging "green" products, I...
Read & DiscussA Tax, by Any Other Name
Let's rethink taxes so people feel good about chipping in. A carbon cap and trade program sounds great in theory. By giving companies...
Read & DiscussBike Commuting and Living to Tell About It
Plenty of people-including us-will gladly tell you to get out of your car, and get on a bike: You'll winnow your carbon footprint to a baby...
Read & DiscussConvenience Is King
You can take the train to work, but your office is still a mile away from the station. Might as well drive, right? How we can solve the...
Read & DiscussA New Model for Better Homes
How one architecture start-up with a novel business plan is giving away plans for LEED-certified homes for free-and heading towards...
Read & DiscussA Primer: Can Algae Replace Gas?
The clean-energy promise of one of the planet's simplest organisms Can algae, that banal scourge of the swimming pool, fuel an...
Read & DiscussOrganics Have Been Debunked. What Do We Do Now?
Locally grown, organic food used to be the last word in environmental awareness. Not anymore. For one, organics have a negligible carbon...
Read & DiscussBetter Teaching Through Clever Classroom Design
The picture looks simple enough: A simple but well-made outdoor classroom. But it's more than that: The benches and supports make up a "math...
Read & DiscussVisualizing the Credit Crisis
One bright spot in these pitch-black economic times has been the wealth of reporting projects aiming at explaining what caused the mess....
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