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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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The Subway Falafel Sandwich and the Americanization of Ethnic Food
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Want to Raise Young Leaders? Don't Hand Out Rewards So Easily
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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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Most Students Who Should Be Taking AP Exams Aren't
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GOOD Citizenship Task 10: Contact a Local Elected Leader on an Issue of Interest to You #30DaysofGOOD
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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It's Time for Some Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education
What coca-infused wine and a hyper-charged drinking culture can tell us about today's booze-with-a buzz craze.
David de Rothschild will soon set sail on the Plastiki, a boat constructed out of re-purposed plastic bottles. In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl and a...
Don't treat it like trash, and plastic becomes a lot more interesting. In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl and a crew of five men crossed the Pacific...
Ebay will release 100,000 reusable shipping containers this October in a pilot program that aims to reduce packaging waste. From...
Starbucks is taking recycling to the next level.
"Nouadhibou means 'where the jackals get fat.' It is also where ships go to die." So writes the photographer Jan Smith, who captured haunting...
Watch the aerial view with English commentary of a "whirlpool vortex sucking everything into it" including a closeup of a ship trapped in the center.
Not sure why I'm only noticing this now, but seems that last month, someone at the U.N. leaked a report assessing the climate-changing emissions...
In this unbelievable video, a team of Dutch marines reclaims a German ship from the infamous Somali pirates.This was (apparently) expert and...
It's been a bad couple of weeks for sunscreen. A few days ago, the Environmental Working Group released its fourth annual Sunscreen Guide, and...
Car makers have, apparently, imagined building an injury-proof car-one that would keep passengers unharmed in any crash-for a while now. We didn't...
U.S. Coast Guard photos of the beef tallow leak that closed down the Houston Ship Canal earlier this week.
Two of the biggest retailers online, Amazon and eBay, are using different strategies to reduce the carbon footprint of their shipping process.
Good design helps keep us safe, and can even save lives.
For Project 012 we asked for your ideas for improving a local school. Todd Smith wants kids in his neighborhood to be able to walk to school...
The last thing that supporters of a promising renewable energy source want is a technology that harms wildlife. So before wave energy buoys...
Pop quiz: Which dining facility serves lower quality meat, Jack in the Box or your local public school's cafeteria? If you guessed the latter,...
The Southern California beach Trestles, named after the nearby railroad tracks running up and down the coastline, is home to some of the most...
Although recent polls suggest that most Americans see electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids as "the way of the future" when it comes to personal...
A great battle for the power of the internet is being waged by autocrats and democractic movements. One company is trying to sway the balance.
