- March 30, 2006 • 8:36 am PST
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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

Julian Assange's former number two, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, is starting a rival anonymous document-based whistleblowing website called OpenLeaks.
Newsweek ranks the biggest American and global companies on their environmental records. Dell takes the top spot.

While a top international scholar is teaching in the States, who's educating college students back in that professor's homeland?

Each month, we challenge our community to do something that will improve the world around us. September's challenge? To connect.
There is a definite green building movement here in the United States. Energy efficiency is leading this trend as companies find ways to cut back...

In an effort to get California's unruly budget under control, Jerry Brown is taking away the taxpayer-provided cellphones of 48,000 state employees.

A new study shows exactly why interactions with DMV employees and other clerical workers can be so fraught.

Everyone has to feel the pain of budget cuts—except the companies being paid millions to make standardized tests.

A California company offers extra days off and even iPods to employees that eat fruit, take the stairs, and adopt other healthy behaviors.

With some minor financial shifts, the nation's biggest employer could drastically change the lives of its most valuable asset: its workers.

Amid the tragedy, bravery emerges: This guy saved 100 people from a deadly storm.

The new Zagat-y guide for socially-conscious dining.
There's already empirical evidence that views of the outdoors help hospital patients recover faster and natural light in schools raises...
It's always nice to know that your favorite American Idol candidate loves Coke more than the next guy, but this is ridiculous: Nielsen has...

An illustrated guide to where shoes, sugar, and shrimp are produced by forced labor.
We're not anti-soft-drink per se, but no matter how many ways they promise this is made with all natural ingredients we will never think of a...
In his column today, Cliff Kuang makes the point that "eco-friendly" consumerism doesn't reduce your carbon footprint. To do that, he says, you...
Masanobu Fukuoka's "do nothing" philosophy makes a comeback.nFrankly, I like doing nothing. I'd rather not knead bread for hours. Or dig up an...
American Apparel has a new product: scraps from their factory floor! Their "Bag-O-Scraps" is just that: a bag of trimmings from "your favorite fun...
The author, blogger, and druid (no joke, he's a real druid) John Michael Greer has a piece in Energy Bulletin explaining why our normal way of...