- June 20, 2006 • 8:25 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 pitchfork
Here is an article (via Treehugger) that reports that green building in America was up 34% last year. It's now a 5.8 billion dollar industry. And...
Belatedly in honor of Earth Day, the American Institute of Architects has announced America's top green projects for 2007. Check out a lot of...
A few months after criticizing what he saw as the superficiality of LEED certification, Frank Gehry, arguably America’s preeminent architect, has...
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...

Japan is using their energy efficiency know-how—and corporate tech—to help India build "green cities." And China doesn't like it.

A government lab is constructing four buildings that will be able to test the real-life performance of energy-efficient technologies.

Last year 82 percent of bottles and cans sold in California were recycled. That's the highest level since 1992. Recycle Rex would be proud.
Treehuggers were all over the map this week: Brian Merchant sat down with Bill Clinton on the sidelines of the Clinton Global Initiative,...

Armed with advice from both UPS and a group of sustainability experts, DODOcase is starting to formulate a long term green strategy.
No more botox emails! The latest daily deal site only promotes businesses that improve the environment, your wellness, the community, or all three.

When we tear down buildings, we usually just scrap the lumber, metal, and brick. It's pretty wasteful. The Syracuse, New York-based D-Build is...

If Resisting the Green Dragon is to be believed, you working to prevent climate change is outright blasphemous.

In this edition of the new business video series Green Room: how selling eyeglasses can fight poverty.

President Obama's new initiative makes lots of sense: Commercial buildings account for 20 percent of the energy consumed in the country.
The Times has an piece today on new developments in urban planning that will allow New York to become more pedestrian and bike friendly. These...
Since 1959, Barbie has pursued a whole range of professional endeavors, from stewardess (circa 1961) to aerobics instructor (circa 1984). And now,...
Eight ways people are shirking good old-fashioned capitalism. 1 Getting Free Stuff Online Through Freecycle, more than 6 million people have...
Can we settle the carbon pricing debate by giving the money back to the people? The loudest debate in climate policy at the moment is no longer...
The Pop!Tech crowd just heard from Eben Bayer. His company, ecovative design, has developed a replacement for Styrofoam. They make packaging...
We've told you about web- and text-based ways to give money to Haiti (over $2 million has been raised by mobile users so far), and now the folks...
