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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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A Geodesic Dome Promises Fish from the Sky
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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Companies Value Internships, So Why Don't They Hire Interns?
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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'?
It may feel like paying for gas only recently turned into an act of masochism, but prices have been on a steady march north for years (if you...
Gallup has released their 2009 index of American well-being. The map above shows roughly where the states ranked. The top three states were...
Percentage of the food at the Al Gore-hosted "Green Ball" that was organic: 100 Estimated curb weight in pounds of Cadillac's presidential...
The Economist just published its report on global Big Mac prices. What is it supposed to teach us? In the complex world of exchange rates, one...
Happy Planet Index (2006 data) - Green is Highest Rating, Brown is Lowest. How should we evaluate the success of our economy? The primary...
The African cell-phone mogul Mo Ibrahim pinpointed a simple fact about African leaders: Many of them use their power to enrich themselves...
Price of Weed is a new site that aims to crowdsource the street value of marijuana. Users (double meaning!) can anonymously submit information...
Wal-Mart's plans for a "Sustainability Index," a rating system that will assess its suppliers on their energy efficiency, responsible use of...
Tyler Cowen wonders what happens if we let housing prices fall as "many smart people say we should." Arguably many banks would once again be...
On Thursday, Wal-Mart is going to announce its new effort to create a comprehensive "sustainability index" for every product it sells. The plan is...
Reporters Without Borders just released its 2009 Press Freedom Index, a ranking of countries based on how shamelessly they screw with the Fourth...
A collaboration of the New Orleans-based artists Nessim Higson, Daymon Gardner, and Anthony Vachris, the forthcoming Alphabet Book is a snapshot...
Those who play with or otherwise alter commercial space.
For all its efficiencies-or perhaps because of them-our modern economy is woefully impersonal. We rarely come to know the people behind our...
Five Groups That Aren't Buying It The Amish Estimated Membership: 232,000 Homeland: U.S. & Canada The Amish have been partying the same way...
The trade-off I’d resigned myself to—nutritious and expensive versus affordable and crappy—turned out to be an illusion.
For his 30th birthday last month, New Yorker Scott Ballum embarked on the Consume®econnection Project, a year-long effort to meet the people who...
This year, U.S. consumers plan to spend $689 dollars each on gifts. Imagine if they spent even just a small fraction of that money helping others.
Why Facebook is more important to the environment than solar panels. The growth of social networks indicates a fundamental shift in patterns of...
"Getting screwed by large corporations is a kind of street battle, with the companies bringing guns to what you thought was a knife fight."
