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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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The Subway Falafel Sandwich and the Americanization of Ethnic Food
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Want to Raise Young Leaders? Don't Hand Out Rewards So Easily
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
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Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
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What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
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Most Students Who Should Be Taking AP Exams Aren't
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GOOD Citizenship Task 10: Contact a Local Elected Leader on an Issue of Interest to You #30DaysofGOOD
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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It's Time for Some Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education
Back in 2008, GOOD dedicated a long feature to Chicago's problematic Cabrini-Green housing project. The project's 660 W. Division building just...
Architect Andres Duany, best known for work designing New Urbanist communities (walkable, small-scaled, mixed-use) has shifted gears a bit to...
Guest writer Dan Maginn is a principal with el dorado inc, an architecture firm in Kansas City, Missouri. This four part series, "Square...
TreeHugger is running a poll right now asking how many square feet your living space occupies: After our post on the couple who lived in 175...
TreeHugger turns us on to a new online tool for measuring the potential impact of your home on renewable energy numbers: The National Renewable...
Slumlord Redemption Program Cities should creare a slumlord redemption program to rehabilitate slumlords, and motivate them beyond money to care...
In my first two entries on affordable housing, we looked at how the size of your house dramatically affects its cost. In this entry, we'll go...
It's tax policy time! The Homebuyer Tax Credit (official site here here) gives $8,000 of taxpayers' money to people buying new homes. It was about...
You know those "gated communities"? The usually upmarket, walled-off residential developments that offer their own amenities and, sometimes,...
Living in the suburbs often looks like the cheaper housing option-until you factor in the cost of transportation, that is. The Center for...
It makes sense to weatherize homes. Beefing up insulation and sealing leaks means less energy gets used to heat a house and less of that heat...
GOOD has covered some of the problems with the LEED standard for sustainable buildings (see these pieces by William Bostwick and Jacob Gordon). If...
With humanity heading to the cities, we're going to have to get creative with our uses of urban space. Here's one idea from an Australian...
Buildings are actually responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than cars. But simply weatherizing houses and businesses can reduce their...
Every year in the United Kingdom they rank the top record singles during the week before Christmas and anoint one song as the "Christmas number...
Passivhaus, the set of rigorous building standards for extreme energy efficiency, has come to California: ...it took some time to figure out the...
Get Off the Grass The lush green lawn has long been a symbol of the American suburban ideal. But water resources are stretched thin these days,...
Massachusetts just made home energy generation, with solar panels or wind turbines, much more attractive. A law going into effect on Tuesday-part...
It looks like Los Angeles may soon require that people capture rainwater and do something responsible with it, rather than letting it go to waste.
Follow or Get out of the Way: The household name in green construction needs to innovate in order to keep up with the...
