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Facebook Doesn't Need Your Money; Invest in Africa Instead
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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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From Tweet to Street: Anti-Poverty Campaign Takes Supporters' Messages to Camp David
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Pet Diaries: The Joint-Custody Dog Who Taught Me to Move On
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GOOD Maker Challenge: How Would You Use Storytelling to Improve your Community?
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How Cherokee Is Real Cherokee? Mixed-Race People Discuss Elizabeth Warren
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In a Majority-Minority Nation, Numbers Aren't Everything
Robin Chase founded Zipcar, the company that allows users to buy time in shared cars, in 1999. Now she has turned her attention to carpooling...
Food and Freedom Riders bring a message of food justice to the South and Midwest.
You've almost certainly been sent this chart or seen it on a blog (BoingBoing and Andrew Sullivan being the biggest culprits I've seen). Now...
How about securing your strawberries on top of a mountain?Here are five lesser-known local farmers' markets that look as juicy as the citrus.
In some New York buildings, a new bin will be showing up next to the trash and the recycling—a clothing donation bin.
Organizations frustrated by scarce resources, missed opportunities for collaboration, and the inability to conduct research are looking to mapping.
You’d be hard-pressed to think of something more unfair than the life of a young refugee—especially one with no forthcoming prospects of...
Want to give the gift of cooking? Try the step-by-step recipes in What to Cook and How to Cook It. I'll be over for pie in an hour.
Bitcoins crashed and burned last year, but the digital currency is trying to mount a comeback.
We had some fun pouring through the first stimulus bill. Turns out, all that effort was wasted, as there is a new bill that has been reconciled...
The death toll from Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch mine explosion last week has reached a total of 29 miners, the worst coal disaster in 40...
Ethical Electric, a start-up run by a veteran progressive organizer, aims to connect people with power that matches their values.
Infographics-and "information design" in general-are about as hot as they can get right now. So intentionally or not, Flickr user and ersatz...
Tonight's State of the Union address by President Obama is going to have a significant education component to it, as has been widely reported both...
Fitness deserts pose health challenges to millions of Americans, mostly low-income ones.
Social science professors expect students to put in a minimum of 18 hours per week, but they're only studying 14 hours.
Fukushima has maxed out the nuclear rating scale, only the second accident to rate 7. So does that really mean that this event is as bad as Chernobyl?
These new liquid core batteries could make charging your electric car as simple as refueling your gas tank.
It looks like Monsanto, the agricultural company that chokes farmers financially, is also hurting our kidneys and livers. The company makes...
That heartening piece of news I posted earlier about the Chamber of Commerce dramatically reversing its stance on climate legislation seemed a...
