Fair Trade Bikes is the story of coffee producers in Rwanda, coffee roasters in Portland, Oregon, and the custom cargo bikes that have helped them both do business.
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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'?
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork

New York wants to launch the nation's largest bike-share without spending a dime of city money. They say new tech tools will let them earn money.
A new Arcade Fire video by Spike Jonze asks if the suburbs as benign as we thought.

The Design Council announces the finalists for its Residential Bike Safety Challenge. Which design concept will cyclists like best?

Minneapolis just got even more bike-friendly: A self-service bike repair station just opened along its highway for bicyclists

A new anti-abortion ad directly lies to people in an effort to destroy Planned Parenthood.

The 'Why Open Education Matters' video competition hopes to raise awareness of the way OER is transforming teaching and learning.
As a U.K. court rules that belief in global warming is akin to a religious or philosophical conviction, Jaymi worries about the implications of...

From the Great Plains to Flaming Gorge, Utah, to the shimmering Pacific, the Bike and Build kids covered ground and pounded tons of nails this summer.
Broadway Bombing is a race all the way down Broadway. One biker recorded his fast, dangerous ride.

Pittsburgh is the crown jewel in the rust belt renaissance, and a devoted group of cycling advocates deserve some credit for that.

Cellist Ben Sollee is going on a 1,500-mile bicycle-powered music tour, and he wants your biking footage to use in a music video about it.

Think it's too cold to bike to work these days? Check out this Finnish commute from GOOD reader Konkeli.

It's Bike Week here in Los Angeles. Among the activities: a bike from work event at Angel City Brewing with GOOD LA.

Watch the video of a vehicular homicide attempt, get outraged, and then commit to doing something to make your streets safer.

This guy gets a ticket for not riding in a NYC bike lane. Then, to protest, he crashes his bike full on into anything and everything in a bike lane.

Cycle for Water duo Joost Notenboom and Michiel Roodenburg are biking from Alaska to Argentina to raise awareness about the global water crisis.

From deaths to uprisings to natural disasters, 2011 seemed like a year with almost too much news. Here's a 60-second roundup.
I don't know if this is the first of its kind or anything, but Teague's new concept bike, Pulse, is pretty alluring. The main section of the frame...
I don't know if this is the first of its kind or anything, but Teague's new concept bike, Pulse, is pretty alluring. The main section of the frame...
The World Naked Bike Ride, the intermittent, international, clothing-optional group cycling event, came to New York this past weekend. What...