- October 14, 2008 • 12:56 am PDT
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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 Tricky Calculus of Setting a Price for MIT's Online Courses
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Lessons from Prop. 8: Why We Shouldn't Put Our Civil Rights Up for a Popular Vote
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Intermission: The Most Beautiful Valentine Ever Made
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Labor of Love: 4 Lessons From My Imperfect Love Life
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Wastelands Around the World Unite! Cities' Forgotten Spaces Become Artists' Canvases
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With college and university endowments topping $350 billion, activists are putting the pressure on for them to move their money to credit unions.
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Don't forget, tomorrow is the national day of climate action and climate change protest. You can find a protest in your area here, and read about...
Today at Slate, Adrian Chen assembles a video exploring the ludicrous lack of death in the animated series G.I. Joe, which, you'll remember, is...

Don't be embarrassed if you went to band camp. It turns out being in clubs raises future earnings by almost 12 percent.
This week from GOOD's Community Blog: Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma is required reading, of course, but this week Ewpage questions...
This week in GOOD's community blog, our own Kyla Fullenwider links to a totally charming illustrated history of democracy, from de Tocqueville to...
We post earlier about JC Penney's Virtual store, in which there are no products, only websites. Now there is a report of the store in action....
A new book looks at the surprising and inspiring ways people of all stripes can affect social change. With his new book Actions Speak Loudest,...
Check it out: There's video of GM's ridiculous and/or revolutionary EN-V concept car. In the promo below, watch Chris Borroni-Bird the "director...
UPDATE 11:10 Copenhagen time: Obama reached a pretty worthless (my take) "political agreement" with China, India, South Africa, and Brazil. Pretty...

Here is a video of one of the cars in action, though you sadly can't see the man in the drivers seat not touching the steering wheel.

A court says the University of Texas at Austin can consider race as an admissions factor. With college admission so competitive, are they right?
GOOD talks civic engagement with the White House's Sonal Shah. The Obama Administration's Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation is...

The tradition of starting school the day after Labor Day isn't much of a tradition anymore.
Salon went to Toronto and watched some films. Here is the skinny on two different takes on the story of post-punk gods Joy Division (sigh), for...
The weird world of invented languages-from Esperanto to Avatar. I haven't seen the mega-hit Avatar yet, and I don't plan to: The whole thing...
McDonald's has launched an advertising campaign in Washington state touting the restaurant's local fries. But what does that blurry white line...