- November 24, 2009 • 5:00 am PST
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People Are Awesome: The Coffee Shop Where Everyone Pays for Everyone Else's Drinks
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What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
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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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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
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GOOD Maker Partner: A Vermont Creperie is Taking Local to the Next Level
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The Next Generation of Renewable Energy May Be Created Under Water
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What Do Tim Tebow and Excellent Schools Have in Common?
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Project: Doodle What it Means to Be an Active Citizen
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Intermission: OK Go + Sesame Street = Color Explosion
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork
This morning I was tipped off to a new article over at Self called "The Dirty Truth About Reusable Shopping Bags." It cites a study that found "64...
If the transition from 386 to 486 resonates loudly in your heart strings, then you have some idea of how far we've come the past fifteen years...
While carbon emissions may be the current cause célèbre of the environmental movement, let's not forget the more tangible waste products we...
Someone has finally invented a reusable carbon-filter water bottle. And no, they haven't messed it up with toxic BPA-laced plastics. This thing,...
This flyer by the fashion illustrator Julia Durgee offers tongue-in-cheek responses you can employ when a store clerk tries to give you a plastic...
Back in July, researchers at MIT's SENSEable City lab launched an experiment: They'd tag thousands of pieces of trash in New York and Seattle...
This is not a new idea here, but it's been fairly revolutionary for me, so I thought I'd share: I emerged from this New Year's break with the...
For many of us, travel is a time to let go, unwind, indulge, or explore. All good things, but that doesn't have to mean a vacation from your...
We can't avoid all the wasteful packaging in our lives, but we can try to reduce it.n
A couple weeks ago we brought you this choice quote from Anthony Bourdain about his distaste for Alice Waters's particular brand of food orthodoxy...
Curious about the sources of your food? Well your milk, at least, comes stamped with a handy code that allows you look up its origins. We just...
Dr. Jay Parkinson, who you may remember from issue 13, thinks we need to stop pussyfooting around the issue of obesity in America. In a recent...
The BBC reports that Nato is shutting down fast food restaurants like Pizza Hut and Burger King in its Afghanistan bases: "This is a warzone, not...
From an interview with DCist: "Alice Waters annoys the living shit out of me. We're all in the middle of a recession, like we're all going to...
A new group of foodies are sharing what they eat-obsessively, and online. In the post-climactic moments of a foodgasm, some of us, euphoric and...
Approximately two-thirds of the United States' adult population is overweight. This is because, on average, adults in the United States are...
That's the premise of a piece in today's Times. While the piece doesn't go so far as to draw a direct parallel between plant intelligence and...
If there weren't any pesky practical limitations, what world-changing device would you invent? In the second installment of Babelgum and...
When dangerously underemployed vegetarian Berlin Reed agreed to temporarily work the meat counter at Brooklyn's The Greene Grape, he never...
This (silent) video by MVRDV explores what it would take to feed the people of Manhattan with the land on Manhattan. The upshot: We'd need a...

