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• Education

  

  Ohio Teacher Blocks Door to Prevent Student Walkout

  The nationwide student walkout protesting education cuts and attacks on teachers is happening, but some teachers and students are trying to block it.

  by Liz Dwyer

• Business

  

  In Conservative Cultures, Social Media Opens the Door to Condoms

  Social media makes it easier for young people to access information about family planning, especially in traditional cultures.

  by Christopher Purdy

• News

  

  The Four Most Unlikely Ways a Refugee Becomes a U.S. Citizen

  Samy may have just built himself a house inside a refugee camp, but he’s not planning on staying long. No, he’s looking to run through the...

  by Brian Merchant

• News

  

  Coming Soon: A Million Places to Charge Your Car

  A new report predicts America will have nearly 1 million electric car charge points by 2015.

  by Andrew Price

• Culture

  

  Ark Collective Uses TOMS Shoes Model to Give Away Backpacks

  The Ark Collective will give a backpack to needy student for every backpack you buy. It's a total copy of TOMS Shoes, but who cares?

  by Cord Jefferson

• Environment

  

  Get Coke to Disclose its Water Source

  We've been talking some about the relative cleanliness, or lack of cleanliness, of U.S. drinking water. But did you know that some of the most...

  by Morgan Clendaniel

• Business

  

  Straight to the Source: The Boba Guys Visit Taiwan

  Boba milk tea is still wildly popular in Taiwan, but the country hasn't produced a recognizable brand for the product.

  by YMFY, Andrew C

• Business

  

  Women Funding Women Opens the Door to Responsible Investing

  A new impact investment fund targets women and lowers the financial burden of making responsible investments—a WIN-WIN.

  by Alex Goldmark

• News

  

  People Are Awesome: Hundreds Donate to Buy America's Tallest Man Some Shoes

  America's closest thing to a giant is receiving an answer to his prayer for a comfy pair of shoes.

  by Cord Jefferson

• News

  

  Getting to the Source: The $825 Billion Economic Stimulus Bill PDF

  Here you go: This is a PDF of the full stimulus bill our Congressmen and -women are voting on this afternoon or evening. If you have any last...

  by Casey Caplowe

• Technology

  

  Open-Source Blueprints Explain How to Get Off the Grid

  Getting off the grid is an intimidating idea. Open Source Ecology intends to make it a bit more accessible.

  by Zak Stone

• Business

  

  A Better BOGO: Are Books a More Effective Charity Than Shoes?

  Better World Books is linking used book sales to charity causes with the buy one, give one model.

  by Alex Goldmark

• Business

  

  Cell Phone Makers Agree: One Thing to Charge Them All

  This is incredibly good news, and will solve one of the major annoyances of the information age: "The world's major cellphone manufacturers...

  by Andrew Price

• Education

  

  People Are Awesome: California Principal Selling Entire 350-Pair Shoe Collection to Save Teaching Jobs

  Imelda Marcos would've never sacrificed like this!

  by Liz Dwyer

• GOOD Blog

  

  Glass Doors

  Begging street children are a serious problem in India. There are 20 million youthful panhandlers. An ad agency has designed a wonderful campaign...

  by Anonymous

• Business

  

  Can This Alarm Clock Help You Be More Generous and Get to Work On Time?

  Why an alarm clock that encourages you to give to charity might signal a wave of new micro-philanthropy apps.

  by Alex Goldmark

• News

  

  Rumsfeld Shown The Door

  Big day for politics. Rumsfeld resigns. He's being replaced by former CIA chief Robert Gates. The creepiest part, literally a minute after it was...

  by Anonymous

• Environment

  

  New Liquid Electric Car Batteries Are as Easy to Charge as Pumping Gas

  These new liquid core batteries could make charging your electric car as simple as refueling your gas tank.

  by Ben Jervey

• GOOD Blog

  

  Cars Produce More Power than Power Plants

  Alexis Madrigal points out that we've got 35 times more horsepower in our cars than in our power plants: "I decided to run the numbers for today's...

  by Zach Frechette

• Education

  

  Mind the Gap: My Door Is Open

  An inner-city schoolteacher on the isolated nature of his profession. In positions past, I spent a lot of time working in a cubicle, but I never...

  by Brendan Lowe