- December 22, 2009 • 11:00 am PST
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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Bad Girl: Does M.I.A. Live Up to Her Revolutionary Claims?
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San Francisco Will Pioneer Electric Bike Sharing
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Want to Raise Young Leaders? Don't Hand Out Rewards So Easily
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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
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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It's Time for Some Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education
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Bad Girl: Does M.I.A. Live Up to Her Revolutionary Claims?
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork
This chart from Phil Howard at Michigan State University shows how three chemical giants, Monsanto, DuPont, and Syngenta, have come to...
Walmart has a program called Heritage Agriculture that's bringing local and organic produce and meat into its stores. The Atlantic's Corby Kummer...
Design students in San Francisco find a new way to bring fresh produce to urban corner stores. Although they...
We can't avoid all the wasteful packaging in our lives, but we can try to reduce it.n
TakeOutWithOut is a new online campaign to get restaurants to reduce their waste. They have three principles they're trying to promote: They want...
Our old friends at Wants for Sale / Needs for Sale have posted a bunch of new paintings to their needs section. Here's how it works: You buy a...
The English grocery chain Sainsbury's is expanding their fleet of electric trucks for home grocery delivery in London. Gas2.0...
After the clothes destruction fracas earlier this month, H&M is now getting heat for an apparent "organic cotton" fraud: Roughly 30 percent of...
More and more of our shopping is happening online. And in the digital marketplace, shoppers write and read millions of reviews each year,...
What are people really buying online? According to this awesome infographic by Permuto (after the jump, and larger here), although clothing,...
Approximately two-thirds of the United States' adult population is overweight. This is because, on average, adults in the United States are...
This video (below the jump) investigates why one in seven people is malnourished, how food dependency affects the poor, and how we can make sure...
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...
How do you know that your pinot noir is really from 2004? Or that the wild salmon you ordered wasn't actually farmed? You don't. The Washington...
We've all heard that going vegetarian is better for the environment. But how much better, exactly? In the chart below, from The Oil Drum, you can...
Couple things we know. Childhood obesity is basically a national health crisis. Sugar cereals, as we called them when I was a kid, are not good...
Can your food choices help make you more healthy? Vietnamese pho is next to godliness. Fresh noodles, steaming amber beef broth, and herbs. The...
A company called Nutricate is selling a new, patented receipt for restaurants and other "foodservice operators" that includes the nutritional...
It's another fun map. This one shows, in red, the parts of the country where bars outnumber grocery stores. And that's in the Midwest. Here's...
