- April 17, 2007 • 4:09 am PDT
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Don't forget to plant a tree - Earth Day is April 22, 2007
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What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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What the 2.4-Cent Penny Says About America's Budget Problem
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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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This Valentine's Day, Celebrate All Kinds of Love
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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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The Tricky Calculus of Setting a Price for MIT's Online Courses
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Lessons from Prop. 8: Why We Shouldn't Put Our Civil Rights Up for a Popular Vote
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Intermission: The Most Beautiful Valentine Ever Made
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Labor of Love: 4 Lessons From My Imperfect Love Life
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Wastelands Around the World Unite! Cities' Forgotten Spaces Become Artists' Canvases
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The model for the 141 Eyewear company is in its name: You buy one pair of their well-designed frames; they give a pair to someone who needs them.

A new hotel in Sweden is at one with the forest

Many of us know that criminalizing pot smokers is a waste of money. Now Philadelphia has the numbers to prove it.

Will Etling takes us on a visual tour of the funniest, saddest, and most inventive methods of Christmas tree disposal on Southland sidewalks.

Dutch shoe company OAT Shoes' new sneakers biodegrade and become trees when you throw them out. Say hello to fashion's future.

And it looks pretty incestuous. What that means for the future of Merlot and biotechnology's role in breeding better vines.
A superb new teaser for One Day on Earth, a cinematic time capsule of the entire planet, shot in every country in the world on October 10, 2010.
This is part nine of Stiv Wilson's tour to better understand how plastic ends up in the ocean. Read the previous installments here. Richard...
Fantastic article in the new Atlantic, by urban theorist Richard Florida. We mentioned it the other day, but it's worth looking at again. It's...

Simple but brilliant clothing tags are made of detergent paper, so they dissolve right in the washing machine.

The One Job for America campaign is asking all businesses to hire one new person, and spread the word. Will you help?

See glorious photos of a heroic trailblazer who escaped forced marriage, built a business, and inspired a village.

Learn about amazing organizations that are redefining the way we live and play outside—and help one win $50,000!
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A house made of trees, that is. And not the dead kind (id est lumber), but the living, photosynthesizing kind.MIT architect Mitchell Joachim...
Urban gathering and gleaning are taking off. Here are six organizations that help people find free, fresh food in the city. My dad emailed me...
A new initiative in Argentina is proving that you can have your cake and eat it too-or I guess in this case it's more like have your trees and sit...

Is Wi-Fi killing our trees? Maybe.
Majora Carter is cleaning up the borough.