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Diary of Social Venture Start-up: The Business Plan
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Business
The Patent Troll
Erich Spangenberg makes a fortune suing major corporations for infringing on patents he owns. Is he exploiting a legal loophole or is he a...
Rest Stops, R.I.P.
For decades, states have defined themselves through their charming roadside rest stops. Now, they're losing ground to supersized highway...
Environment
Water Regulators (Mount Up)
From pharmaceuticals to heavy metals, there's a whole lot more than hydrogen and oxygen in our water. By now, you probably know that you should...
News
The Obama Orphans: Lost in Transition
When President Obama took over the White House, thousands of campaign workers-who had abandoned the stability of education, careers, and even...
The 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...
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Rebuilding America's Neighborhoods
Why we should encourage-and incentivize-immigrants to rejuvenate our ravaged cities, one thousand-dollar house at a time. We can learn a...
Who Will Be Left Behind By the Green Job Boom?
Living Cities-a collaboration of 21 of the world's biggest foundations and financial institutions-is leading the charge to ensure low-income...
Environment
Sustainable Renovations: A Cost-benefit Analysis
Ever since the environmentally friendly building supply store Green Depot opened in New York, we have wondered: Is it worth it-financially,...
Design
Playing In Temporary Areas
Independent filmmaker Vincent Moon takes his guerrilla style global. "We're just playing next to the trash cans," says Zach Condon, the reedy...
Environment
World Changers: The 2009 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners
Every year since 1990, the Goldman Environmental Prize has been awarded to six grassroots pioneers in environmental activism-one for each...
The Beast Within: Implanting Animal Organs into Humans
Are animal-to-human organ transplants the future of medicine? Getting an organ these days is no easy task. Currently, there are more than...
Design
Picture Show: Buffalo, New York, All America City
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Environment
Family Farming for the 21st Century
Germany is preserving the tradition of family farming by helping farmers branch out. Germany's fresh markets bring me to my knees. From...
News
The Memory War
We might be on our way out of Iraq but things are just starting to pick up in Afghanistan. With record-high number of veteran suicides and...
Environment
Making California America's Organic Farm
Alice Waters isn't the only one pushing the effort to convert California to wholly sustainable agriculture. If even the government agrees it's...
Environment
Bottle Shock
The 10 worst quirks of bottled water culture Water has always been a problem for me. It just has. As a kid I was constantly told by my mother...
Urban Cowboys
Photo by Steve Duncan At any hour of day or night, urban explorers risk their safety (and their criminal records) to plow though subways,...
