Patrick James
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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Infographic: Understanding Social Enterprise
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Is it Time to 'Occupy Teach For America'?
Reinventing the Outdoors contest: ASEC founder Frank Scura is spreading the word about sustainability through pro boarding, BMX, and motocross.
The Great Recession, the global financial meltdown, and the many other names for our national nightmare Sometimes naming is easy. When Nadya...
Matt Yglesias has a piece in The American Prospect arguing that it's time to stop trying to use the nationalistic appeal of "energy independence"...
I've written quite a bit about "Home Star"—aka "Cash for Caulkers"—and have made no effort at all to disguise my enthusiasm for the prospective...
JFK's speech launched led to the birth of the Peace Corps, and eventually City Year, Americorps, and Teach for America. Rhetoric can have an impact.
Kristina Alexanderson's project gives emotion to expressionless Lego stormtroopers.
The Times takes a tour of tent cities across the country, which are springing up at an alarming rate because people keep losing their houses....
Each month, we challenge our community to do something that will improve the world around us—and our own lives. September's challenge? To connect.
The Governator rails on oil companies and Washington "girlie men" who refuse to take on oil companies.
Can young business leaders shake up the world's biggest international organization?
Inside the marketing world of the Fleshlight.
What McLobsters, McRibs, McCrab, McArabia, and the McLaks say about the regionalization of the homogenous McDonald's fast food chain.
What was the first time you realized the internet would change the world? A new podcast wants to share your story.
Call of Duty's latest release might just be the highest grossing media launch of all time.
If you take a look The Action Blog it might look like there is nothing there (that's because there are only three posts up). But, it has a nice...
Why are more public school educators than ever before leaving the field after only a few years in the classroom? Seven teachers take us to...
Today is the first (annual?) Blog Action Day. A tech blogging couple decided to try to get as many bloggers as they could to write about a single...
From Kennedy's executive order 10925 to 2006's Michigan Civil Rights Initiative: A short history of the struggle for fairness in education.
Jackson Browne is suing John McCain for using his song "Running on Empty" in a campaign commercial without permission. Browne, perhaps rightly,...
Months before she was shot by a crazed gunman, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords warned of the dangers of Sarah Palin's rhetoric.
