Patrick James
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What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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This Valentine's Day, Celebrate All Kinds of Love
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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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Young People Have the Bleakest Futures—But the Best Attitudes
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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
Skeptics of climate science have been licking their lips waiting for Richard Muller's latest research. Today, he threw them for a loop.
Marcus Wohlsen's book, Biopunk, looks into the DIY science on kitchen counters that could change the way we think about biotechnology.
Roughly six percent of the world's arable land is compromised by levels of salinity that prevent most crops from being grown. That in mind,...
Many of the foods we evolved to eat are contributing to our modern health problems. Should we be looking to our evolutionary past for answers?
Matthew Dessem on the Ancient Art of List Making
The Xoloitzcuintli, a breed of ancient Mexican dog-of which half are oddly un-furred-were once revered by the Aztecs for their supposed healing...
This month, 10 colossal tree stumps landed on the lawns of Oxford University's Museum of Natural History and Pitt Rivers Museum. Taken from...
In Aneyoshi, the wisdom of their ancestors saved the lives of the tiny village's inhabitants. Other towns ignored these warnings and weren't so lucky.
The Oro Verde Rain Forest Foundation, a German nonprofit dedicated to protecting that fast diminishing resource, provides us with this inspired...
That forest was petrifying.
San Francisco is the test site for a new crowdsourcing project called Urban Forest Map. The idea is to get citizens to help create a complete...
Over a year later, Angeles National Forest has still not recovered from the worst fires in L.A. history. TreePeople is leading tree-planting efforts.
Here's a look at what happens when you build a magnificent wooden xylophone atop a thickly forested hillside. Warning: It's an advertisement.
What if every 100 pages you print (re)planted a tree?
Irony: "A state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result." The New York Times:...
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One company's ambitious plan to change the energy economy of sub-Saharan Africa, saving lives and the environment.
Why would you pay someone just to own a forest?
Great news. While as many as 27,000 species become extinct every year, new ones are being discovered and they are mighty cool looking (I...
Life on Earth requires an energy-transporting molecule called ATP to survive. And as experts point out, you need enzymes to make ATP and ATP to...
Since 1995, astronomers have discovered about 450 exoplanets that exist outside our solar system. Recently, they found more than they bargained...
