When a group of environmentally concerned friends in San Francisco decided to buy nothing for a year, they unwittingly sparked an...
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Technology: shaping our world from the top down and the bottom up.
Michael A. M. Lerner talks with the man who is putting the "science" back in political science.
GOOD explores seven practices that haven't changed much over time for one simple reason: they got it right on the first try.
Morgan Clendaniel ambles around the ghost town that is Second Life in search of the digital frontier (and a cheap penis).
A group of renegade engineers at MIT is creating elegantly simple solutions to global problems. Tim McKeough shows us five of the best.
Sam Schwartz hitches a ride on a government mule to traverse the United States Postal Service's most dangerous route.
Father Greg Boyle wants to stop the causes of gang violence, instead of waiting to clean up the results.
Caesar Mickens Jr. wants to make his charter school better than public schools, on the same budget.
Lauri Firstenberg is putting Los Angeles's public art in the spotlight.
Brewster Kahle wants to create an electronic archive of every word ever published.
A Brooklyn restaurant-cum-cultural center with an ethic of sustainability has become a social hub for the creative and diverse local community.
This is Daphne. And these are her things.
The consumer in you wants these products.
Metal is making a comeback in Egypt after a crackdown on "Satanic music."
Replate asks diners to leave their leftovers on top of trash cans so that the homeless know where to find a free meal.
The Green Project is a new salvage shop preserving the architectural heritage of New Orleans.