- July 30, 2007 • 1:06 pm PDT
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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
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork

Putting together a block party is not only a great ice breaker for any neighborhood, it's the perfect way to turn neighbors into friends.
Summertime is just around the bend and you know what that means? Block party! If you live in Youngstown, Ohio, or the San Fernando Valley, no...
Pining for the weekend on a Wednesday?One of the photographers at our LA Anniversary Party put together this video from stills he took..
A new movement called the "Coffee Party" is getting underway as a left-leaning response to the amorphous, anti-tax Tea Party. It's gained momentum...
Google teams up with San Francisco and unveils a new plan to give every homeless person in the city a life-long phone number and voicemail, should...
Last Wednesday, about 200 of San Francisco's most active and engaged citizens gathered at SPUR's new Urban Center for GOOD Design SF, one of the...

The artist Akin Bilgic is fundraising on Kickstarter to put up mirrors with inspirational messages on them all over San Francisco.

Our program that pairs designers with urban problems is headed back to San Francisco, with student presentations from the Academy of Art University.
We know-and we suspect you do as well-that design can solve problems. And what better problems to solve than the ones that face our own cities?...

What happens when the soul of a liberty movement is corrupted by oil-rich plutocrats? A trip to the Cancun climate talks is revealing.
Our friends over at Treehugger have been purchased by the Discovery channel for the nice sum of $10 million. This says a lot about how far the...
Want to start a community project aimed at local government transparency and bettering your block? EveryBlock, a site that culls ultralocal news...
Unhappy with what's going on in your neighborhood? If you're like most people, you might attend a meeting at your local Chamber of Commerce or...
A new Arcade Fire video by Spike Jonze asks if the suburbs as benign as we thought.
All for Solar If you work with your neighbors, you can get solar panels at a bulk discount. Americans want solar panels-80 percent of us do,...

Slow Food USA's Josh Viertel asks Obama a gem of a question during the YouTube Q&A session.

Have you heard of Koch Industries? With a 2009 revenue of around $100 billion, it is one of the largest privately held conglomerates in the world...
Tomorrow evening at GOOD, our friends from 1 Block Off The Grid are introducing their radical concept of community group purchasing of solar to...
We've already told you about One Block Off the Grid's efforts to encourage communities to install solar panels, and now Treehugger reports that...
I came across these great murals outside of GAFTA.


