- January 8, 2007 • 4:29 am PST
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What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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This Valentine's Day, Celebrate All Kinds of Love
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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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

Why are older adults still acting as if the lives of their poor, poor children are the only ones at stake?
Every country in the world approaches health care differently, but the end goal is the same: Keep citizens as healthy as possible at the...
"For every person who dies in a terrorist attack globally, 58 people in the United States die due to lack of health care." Discuss. Image...

With cold and flu season hitting New York, medical professionals are leaving the hospital and going to Zuccotti Park.

The Fed has piles and piles of dollar-coins that no one wants. How did they get there?

If Midwestern city dwellers started biking instead of driving when running errands, they could make their communities measurably better.
"If the market for global news is growing, why is the delivery of it shrinking?"
Venture capitalists love to talk about "investing in people"-but what if they meant it literally? A new funding concept launched by social...
As I noted last week, investing in local small businesses has a lot of advantages over putting your money into some Fortune 500 company or...
In a world of dwindling traditional energy resources, countries are starting to invest in more sustainable alternatives. Here are the countries...

At a clean energy summit today, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said that, over the long-term, government support allows innovation to thrive.
Are the tides changing in China's controversial business dealings in Africa? Sure seems so. China appears to be "tightening purse strings" on the...

Two companies are figuring out new ways to finance solar power—they're taking cues from microfinance and peer-to-peer lending.
Yesterday, Google announced that it had invested a hefty sum, $38.8 million, in a wind farm in the North Dakota plains. From the Google blog: On...

Fifteen major investors are buying into a new rating agency for social enterprise in the next major step toward realizing the sector's potential.

The government could shut down over $1.6 billion in cuts to clean energy, part of a broader reluctance to fund clean energy.

Social enterprise Lumni makes paying for college a collective investment instead of an individual one.

Ghonim, who's at the intersection of Middle East democracy and online activism, cautions observers against second-guessing their support.
New research says complaining about money and lives lost in our wars might be a terrible way to try and end them.

Imagine a true neighborhood market where you can connect not only with local food and farmers, but also with your neighbors.