- April 8, 2009 • 11:48 am PDT
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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Bad Girl: Does M.I.A. Live Up to Her Revolutionary Claims?
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San Francisco Will Pioneer Electric Bike Sharing
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Want to Raise Young Leaders? Don't Hand Out Rewards So Easily
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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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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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It's Time for Some Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education
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Bad Girl: Does M.I.A. Live Up to Her Revolutionary Claims?
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork
I always had a wall calendar hanging in my room as a little kid. (Spoiled, I know.) So each year, on the day after Christmas, I'd catch a glimpse...
Looks like the bottled-water-as-accessory-of-the-evil thing has truly taken off (that, or the recession is making more people take to the tap)....
The folks at Freedom Blog crunch the numbers on junk mail and come up with some disturbing revelations. For one, each year, about 17 million trees...
Before there was NASCAR, there was box car. Soap box derbies, at the peak of their popularity in the 1950s, provided all-American kids with an...
The Bloom Box-a fuel cell hyped as being able to deliver cheap, emissions-free energy-debuted last week to much fanfare. But the report we...
The resourceful mycologist (that's a fungi-studier) Paul Stamets has made cardboard packaging that can be planted and will grow into trees. It's...
Enjoying bottled water is not as new a trend as many believe. In the Roman Empire, earthen jars filled with naturally carbonated water from...
Green Box's design breaks down into four plates and a smaller, fridge-friendly box for leftovers.

Want to see our underwear? Now’s your chance.
There have been rumblings for some time about a mysterious little box that could change the energy world forever. Finally, last night, the...
Craig Colorusso's "Sun Boxes" (video preview after the jump) is an installation of 20 speakers powered by solar panels to create a naturally...

From our winter issue, GOOD 025: The Next Big Thing

Toronto's crumbling planter boxes have gotten a lot more interesting, thanks to Sean Martindale and a small army of artists and gardeners.

Rose Shuman is bringing the life-saving value of a fast Google-type search to even the most remote parts of the globe.
This is the sixth post in The Back Garden Project, one GOOD community member's effort to turn a neglected corner of the city into a thriving...
After a series of bike-auto accidents, including several deaths, the city of Portland, Oregon, took action, installing 14 green bike boxes at city...

A refreshing look into the peculiar origins of the carbon dioxide bubbles in our drinks.

At long last, the EPA has decided to limit the amount of perchlorate, a component of rocket fuel, in our drinking water.

One of the hazards of hydraulic fracturing could be a toxic food and water supply—and not just in the epicenter of the natural gas boom.

The financial bubble. The housing bubble. And now for a refreshingly different bubbly for the new year—free bubbly tap water.
