- May 8, 2007 • 5:10 am PDT
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What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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This Valentine's Day, Celebrate All Kinds of Love
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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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
today's top stories from our friends at grist
This flyer by the fashion illustrator Julia Durgee offers tongue-in-cheek responses you can employ when a store clerk tries to give you a plastic...
Nothing says all-American business like Walmart. It's the largest grocery retailer in the United States, the largest majority private employer,...
California is considering banning the single-use plastic bag from grocery stores (and adopting a 5-cent charge for paper bags). The legislation,...
California couldn't pass that plastic bag ban we were expecting, but the city of Brownsville, Texas, is going ahead with a law that will charge...

Military chocolate milk and Jimmy Choos are being served up in today's daily roundup of what we're reading at GOOD Food HQ. Enjoy!
This morning I was tipped off to a new article over at Self called "The Dirty Truth About Reusable Shopping Bags." It cites a study that found "64...
In the following nature documentary, one of the world's most delicate creatures, the plastic bag, migrates from the city to its natural habitat...
Made from more than 40,000 plastic bags and 7,500 plastic cups, this monster winds its way through the streets of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
This is part four of Stiv Wilson's tour to better understand how plastic ends up in the ocean. Read the previous installments here, here, and...

Watch this mock music video and learn everything you need to know about why plastic bags are really, really dumb.
A firm in Brazil is taking plastic bottles out of landfills and repurposing them as high quality rope. According to the Arteplas Web site, the...

CEOs take note: A compromised ability to breathe makes people less effective cogs in your profit machine.
One water transportation technology that doesn't float (yet) From the Roman aqueducts to modern-day pipelines, bulk water transportation hasn't...
It's a bag. Made out of a suit. How cool is that?
It's a bag, made out of an old sail. You like? Probably not. We're really bad at picking these things..
San Francisco has approved a ban on plastic grocery bags in supermarkets. Well, actually you'll still be able to get plastic bags, just a more...
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...
Good news for literalists: Now Irish Americans (and anyone else who wants in) can always have a part of the Motherland with them.
Treehugger discovers some really cool bags made from recycled rubber. And you thought you were cool for having that canvas book bag. Think again!.
If you got paid for it, would you remember to recycle? The paradigm-shifting RecycleBank thinks you might.
