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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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What Country Has the Best Higher Education System?
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In a Majority-Minority Nation, Numbers Aren't Everything
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Facebook Doesn't Need Your Money; Invest in Africa Instead
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Juilliard Brings Online Music Education to the Masses
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Sleep Better: 4 Ways to Manipulate Your Melatonin Levels #30DaysofGOOD
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today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork
Taking public transportation is one of the best way to combat congestion in our cities. But to encourage individuals to take mass transit,...
Currently, more than half the world's population lives in cities. And the complex collection of systems that make up a city's infrastructure...
With humanity heading to the cities, we're going to have to get creative with our uses of urban space. Here's one idea from an Australian...
Get Off the Grass The lush green lawn has long been a symbol of the American suburban ideal. But water resources are stretched thin these days,...
It looks like Los Angeles may soon require that people capture rainwater and do something responsible with it, rather than letting it go to waste.
In February, the U.S. government passed the $787 billion Recovery Act, better known as the stimulus package, in an effort to breathe new life...
Here's a feel-good story for your Wednesday: An all-male charter school in Chicago recently announced that all 107 members of its senior class...
Behold the flip side of the standardized testing quagmire, where education secretaries (as opposed to teachers and students) are taken to task for...
Quick poll: President Obama is indeed flying to Copenhagen to lobby on behalf of the city of Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Olympic games. Will he...
A friend of GOOD, Gordon Douglas, has been part of an effort to save a community garden in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood. It's been difficult....
Obama's last-minute trip to Copenhagen to appeal to members of the Olympic Committee to pick his hometown (and, you know, U.S. city) has failed,...
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it became obvious that America was frustratingly ill-prepared to house people displaced by a natural...
Guest writer Dan Maginn is a principal with el dorado inc, an architecture firm in Kansas City, Missouri. This four part series, "Square...
TreeHugger is running a poll right now asking how many square feet your living space occupies: After our post on the couple who lived in 175...
TreeHugger turns us on to a new online tool for measuring the potential impact of your home on renewable energy numbers: The National Renewable...
Slumlord Redemption Program Cities should creare a slumlord redemption program to rehabilitate slumlords, and motivate them beyond money to care...
In my first two entries on affordable housing, we looked at how the size of your house dramatically affects its cost. In this entry, we'll go...
It's tax policy time! The Homebuyer Tax Credit (official site here here) gives $8,000 of taxpayers' money to people buying new homes. It was about...
Architect Andres Duany, best known for work designing New Urbanist communities (walkable, small-scaled, mixed-use) has shifted gears a bit to...
Every year in the United Kingdom they rank the top record singles during the week before Christmas and anoint one song as the "Christmas number...