- April 1, 2010 • 12:30 pm PDT
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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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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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Most Students Who Should Be Taking AP Exams Aren't
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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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The 'Homeless Man with a Golden Voice' Gets a Third Chance
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Most Students Who Should Be Taking AP Exams Aren't
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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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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
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork
Dear Bike-riders, Los Angelenos, and Urban planning lovers, Join the LA County Bicycle Coalition's CicLAvia committee and James Rojas for an...
Apparently, it would look just like this. Tom Baker (via NotCot) has produced a stunning set of photographs of a car-free Los Angeles. It's a...
Biking is way up in New York, but the city only has one bike rack space for every 30 cyclists. The solution? Repurpose old parking meters: Under...
Back in 2008, Los Angeles passed a ballot measure, Measure R, that increased the sales tax in the county to raise $40 billion for public...
Recently, I've started noticing these bilingual, and potentially quite helpful, wheat-pastings around Los Angeles. I finally had to stop and take...
The average American is both overweight and spends more than 100 hours per year commuting, that vast majority of those hours being spent in a...
We've written both about renegade bike-lane painters, who put bike lanes where cities won't, and about issues that New York's Hasidic Jewish...
File this under fun ideas that will probably not happen: The flying bicycle lane. You attach your handlebars to two parallel wires, fit your tire...
If you live in an American metropolis, you've probably heard of (or maybe participated in) Critical Mass, a semi-organized group bike ride...

At Planetizen, they take note of the increase number of cruiser bikes around cities as a sign of the increased acceptance of bicycles. It's now...
Copenhagenzine notes this new bike-friendly urban design feature in the Danish capital: It's a hand rail and foot rest for cyclists to use...
In the GOOD 100 we applauded the idea of not only creating more space for cyclists and pedestrians on our roads, but of appropriating car lanes to...
Our Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, appeared National Bike Summit last week where he stood on a table and told the cyclists "you have a...
A new hub for food trucks expands the offerings beyond tacos. Food trucks are typically pretty hard to pin down. While some may argue that's the...
The ridership of L.A.'s subway system grew by an incredible 14% in the first three months of 2008, according to this report. The numbers were...
Montreal's Bixi bike sharing system has been really successful (in terms of volume of rides, at least). Compared to some of the other bike sharing...
And here's another fun chart: According to the most recent data from the New York City Department of Transportation, biking in the city...
The battle over which North American city is the best for biking is fierce and- most likely-unresolvable. Our latest Transparency will tell...
In February, the U.S. government passed the $787 billion Recovery Act, better known as the stimulus package, in an effort to breathe new life...
America is known for its car culture—but we haven't designed our daily commutes from home to work (and back) to be easy. In fact, they're...