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Shady Nutrition Labeling Gets Yanked
Oh, look: The FDA is actually weighing in on something of consequence. It looks like federal and state wrist-slapping has been enough to derail...
Read & DiscussCrappy Bikes Lanes: In Pictures
Anyone who has ever ridden a bicycle knows how useless bike lanes are when they are a) not enforced, b) not respected by cabbies and other...
Read & DiscussWho Should Feed Hungry School Kids?
This is a question being raised in Uganda right now, where close to a million schoolkids are literally starving, and where the teachers' union is...
Read & DiscussSiobhan O'Connor thinks The Patriots is good.
2 years agoA Design Book For the Rest of Us
In his new book, Glimmer, journalist Warren Berger tries to explain to the uninitiated what designers have been saying for years: that good...
Read & DiscussBig Companies Misbehaving in China Again?
A new report by Greenpeace delivers some not-great news about several giant companies' environmental performance in China. At issue are Chinese...
Read & DiscussSiobhan O'Connor thinks Transparency: Biking to Work is good.
2 years agoSiobhan O'Connor thinks The GOOD 100: Asylum Access is good.
2 years agoSiobhan O'Connor thinks The GOOD 100: Women Are the Key to Development is good.
2 years agoObama's Peace Prize Win: Merited, or Politics As Usual?
This is the question every single pundit (and Twitterer) this side of, well, anywhere will be asking today. Obama's Nobel Peace Prize win is a...
Read & DiscussFighting Over Cop15 Before Cop15 Even Starts
It's on! At the Bangkok talks leading up the Most Important Meeting Ever, the gloves are off. Yesterday, an angry statement by 131 countries...
Read & DiscussShould We Send 40,000 More Troops to Afghanistan?
"Make no mistake: We are experts in the application of violence. We are attacking to seize control of the population from the Taliban. The people...
Read & DiscussEPA Finally Says Hormones in Water Are Worth Doing Something About
The EPA is finally-finally!-considering cracking down on some of the other pharmaceuticals, chemicals and (ew) hormones that contaminate our...
Read & DiscussBehold the Insanely Rapid Growth of Target
FlowingData has an awesome map that shows the growth of Target superstores, from a measly one, to as many as 1,682 in 2008-just a few decades...
Read & DiscussGoogle Needs You!
Last year, Google announced it was going to help the world by soliciting world-changing ideas that help as many people as possible. The project,...
Read & DiscussThe Newsweek Green Business Rankings: Legit or Greenwashing?
So there's a new definitive-seeming list out ranking 500 companies on how green they are. Newsweek's list is numbered, which means it's bound to...
Read & DiscussShould We Ban Smoking Outside?
New York is considering banning tobacco smoking in public places-part of a public health campaign called Take Care New York that, while a little...
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