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Plastic bottles line the streets of many Guatemalan towns, so a nonprofit is turning the litter into building materials for schoolhouses.
Occupy Wall Streeters may be angry with Washington lawmakers, but they still need to join 'em before they can beat 'em.
The classic building material gets a makeover for form and function The architect Louis Kahn liked to cloak his design process in mysteries; as...
Check out this time-lapse video of Wal-Mart expansion. The company has crept like kudzu over the entire continent, growing from one tiny Arkansas...
Your typical brick is fired up in coal-fueled kilns that use up plenty of trees and coal. That one brick ends up emitting 1.3 pounds of carbon...
The protesters are motivated by a general sense of injustice, not specific demands.
Last month we held a contest asking people to design an infographic about the earthquake in Haiti. The results were astounding. After the contest...
Remember back in the mid-1990s when the federal government completely stopped all "non-essential services" as a result of a budget-related game...
A new show that opens this weekend in Los Angeles is being called the first comprehensive U.S. museum survey of street art and graffiti.
Create a doodle about "A Day in Another City."
The winner of our latest Doodle project. Our winner for this month, Bianca Ferrari, told the tale of her day in Verona, Italy. As she described it...n
OpenStax believes its free books can save students millions.
The Roughrider State is leading a populist charge against the stranglehold of megabanks.
Supporters of big banks may be publicly writing off OWS, but privately, they're starting to shake in their boots.
An interactive multi-year map of regional homeless populations shows you how many are on your streets and how that's changed since 2005.
Protestors at Occupy Los Angeles see themselves as part of the broader Occupy Wall Street movement, but only to a point.
Take the money you might spend on flowers or a fancy meal and put it toward services for refugee mothers who may not see their children any time soon.
The history of countercultural movements can be told through their stomachs. When will this one find its signature protest dish?
More Plants Less Walls is a fantastic new nonprofit that's working with Treepeople to help beautify urban areas. Their first order of business is...
The urban landscape is becoming something of a Post-it note for anonymous poets. Written on the City documents this new "message graffiti."
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