- December 20, 2007 • 5:04 pm PST
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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Want to Raise Young Leaders? Don't Hand Out Rewards So Easily
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People Are Awesome: Man Embarks on Year of Random Kindnesses
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Bad Girl: Does M.I.A. Live Up to Her Revolutionary Claims?
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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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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
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Bad Girl: Does M.I.A. Live Up to Her Revolutionary Claims?
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We've reached the end of our attempt to go vegetarian and vegan. Find out how we, and the GOOD community, did.
We should all feel a little gross about this: After a 26-year run, Reading Rainbow is done because nobody will pony up the dough to renew the...

July's attempt to give up on waste was perhaps the hardest one yet. Oh, how we struggled with those infernal iced coffees.
Per our videographic discussion of the problems with plastic (and paper) bags, here are some solutions for those who can't make the switch to...
As we move towards an electricity grid made up of renewable energy, it's a good idea to see from where that energy is going to come. Some...
Over at the The Washington Post, Annie Lowry imagines various other ways Senate representation could work: Imagine a chamber in which senators...
In case you missed it last week, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon was boasting of running his car on the fat he siphoned out of obese patients. Dr....

Some people aren't built to thrive in a lecture hall, and conventional schooling doesn't guarantee a job.

With Airbnb, apartment swapping gets user-friendly.

It's not endorsed by doctors, but the wheat-free approach is increasingly popular.
Each Super Bowl has a special logo that goes on all the Super Bowl paraphernalia. It goes on $100 million dollars worth of merchandise, in fact....
Would you like to drive a car powered by urine? Of course you would. Not only is it an awesomely efficient concept, but, according to Gas2.org,...
The recently-launched AltUse website does exactly what you'd think it would do: suggest alternative uses for everyday objects around your home...
In a world of dwindling traditional energy resources, countries are starting to invest in more sustainable alternatives. Here are the countries...

Dropouts in alternative programs get a personalized learning experience. Maybe if they had that in the first place they wouldn't leave school.
As you can see from these two graphs, the U.S. government's investment in non-fossil fuel sources has been proportionally quite low during...
The team over at TreeHugger wondered how much land would be required to meet the biofuel equivalent of current aviation energy needs: With a...
Recently, the Environmental Defense Fund launched a campaign to encourage business owners to improve their corporate fleet efficiency....
