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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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For World Water Day 2008, we look at the planet's water, how it's being used, and the increasing strains on this vital resource. An original...
Scientists at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, have created "revolutionary" compact water-treatment units.
Prompted in part by Annie Leonard's new video "The Story of Bottled Water," the International Bottled Water Association released a video of their...
Michelle Park and Manny Garcia explain their award-winning campaign to teach Southern Californians to use less water in our miniseries Rethink...
A recent study found that drinking water in India contained enough antibiotics to treat every person in a city of 90,000, due to waste water from...
Tata Group, the Indian company behind the tiny, super-cheap Nano car, has just announced it will be selling a low-cost water filter. The Tata...
The AQUS System is a simple way to capture the water from your sink's drain, do some basic filtering, and then run it into your toilet.
This is one of eight sets of questions to consider when envisioning a city that can win the climate fight. Read the introduction, and take a...
As we become more and more aware that we may be using water at an unsustainable pace, the idea of water footprints-the amount of water an...
2A: Lose the Lawn, Water Hogs Potential water savings: up to 150 gallons per day, per household. There are much better ways to decorate or...
As you can see from this video (after the jump), some 21,000 women gathered today in Kolakkudipatti village, India, to commemorate World Water...
In its heyday, London's Hornsey Baths (pictured), served some 120 daily visitors. That, however, was more than half a century ago; over time,...
If you've recently found yourself in one of the cities inundated with TAP Project ads maybe they got you too. In the event these ads haven't yet...
A German NGO called Alimon has figured out a smart way of providing water to a neighborhood in Lima, Peru that's been struggling without...
If you're looking for a way to better understand your water use/shame yourself into using less, check out this Waterpebble device: The device...
From the people who brought you "The Story of Stuff" comes "The Story of Bottled Water." Have a look at the preview after the jump. Looks...
A graphical exploration of the world's precious water resources and their use.
The Bottled-water Boycott When the small town of Bundanoon, Australia, two hours south of Sydney, decided almost unanimously this summer to...
When a well-intentioned initiative lacks the compelling storytelling needed to get its message out there, its chances of success-or of getting...
In the GOOD 100 Issue we covered the "Cash for Grass" programs that have been sprouting up in some western cities. They offer homeowners cash...