Silicon Valley Re-Boom?

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• Business

  

  The Silicon Valley of Shit: Nairobi Is Ground Zero for Sanitation Innovation

  Social entrepreneurs have flocked to Nairobi to profit from peoples’ excrement.

  by Jonathan Kalan

• Education

  

  Why Are Silicon Valley Executives Sending Their Kids to a Tech-Free School?

  Parents employed by Google and Apple are sending their kids to computer-free Waldorf schools. Are they on the right track?

  by Liz Dwyer

• Lifestyle

  

  Feast Your Eyes: California's Central Valley Is a Dust Bowl

  Documentary photographer Matt Black takes incredible portraits of the forgotten people on some of the most productive farmland in California.

  by Peter Smith

• Culture

  

  Silicon Dioxide and "Smoke Flavor": Taco Bell's Definition of "Meat"

  A lawsuit alleging Taco Bell's meat is mostly fake has been dropped. But what's actually in that meat?

  by Cord Jefferson

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  Hayes Valley: A Former Freeway Turns into a Farm

  The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake left many of San Francisco's urban freeways structurally unsound. (Back then, there were many, carving up the...

  by Theo Schell-Lambert

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  Picture Show: The Central Valley Tea Party

  With the current iteration of Tea Party movement still relatively young, it's difficult to tell whether it will become a lasting voice in our...

  by GOOD, Mathieu Young

• Culture

  

  Picture Show: Heavenly Views of Peru's Sacred Valley

  The photographer Michael Hanson has taken his camera all over the world, from Fiji to Rwanda, and throughout South, Central, and North America....

  by Michael Hanson, Patrick James

• Culture

  

  Image of the Day: Make This Better in Ripper's Valley

  Broken City Lab set up these brighlty colored cardboard letters to call attention to Windsor, Ontario's "dead-zone" known to as "Ripper's Valley."

  by Patrick James

• Culture

  

  Now and Then: Sweet Valley High Vs. Gossip Girl

  Today's "Now and Then" takes a trip to the white, skinny worlds —and unrealistic expectations —of Sweet Valley High and Gossip Girl.

  by Liz Dwyer

• Cities

  

  'Our Valley Forge Moment': Engineers Seek to Keep Occupy Protesters Warm

  A ragtag group of revolutionary biologists, engineers, and architects from MIT, Harvard, and beyond are fighting to keep the movement alive and warm.

  by Sam Graham-Felsen

• Issue 012

  

  Fall Down, Go Boom

  When I was in fourth grade, my school replaced our playground. It had been a well-loved, ramshackle structure that seemed to rise 20 or 30...

  by Morgan Clendaniel

• Technology

  

  The Business Collaboration Boom

  Businesses and individuals are becoming exponentially more productive and efficient thanks to the innovations that connect them. Between email,...

  by GOOD

• News

  

  Growing the Green Job Boom

  The stimulus bill has supplied billions of dollars to state and local governments to fund projects to create jobs. Some of that money is going...

  by GOOD, Steve Rura, Tiziana Haug

• Education

  

  For-Profit Education is Booming

  There's an interesting article over at Fast Company talking about the future of for-profit education: Today, for-profit colleges enroll 9% of all...

  by Zach Frechette

• Environment

  

  BP Banishes Hair Booms

  Between the passing of actress and ardent animal rights advocate Rue McClanahan and the publication of some heart-wrenching photos of...

  by Mother Nature Network

• Environment

  

  Organized Crime Wants in on the Green Boom

  Our friends over at TreeHugger have a roundup of some recent examples of organized crime syndicates get their fingers on some of the new money...

  by Zach Frechette

• Lifestyle

  

  Why Craft Booze Is Booming

  The craft spirits boom has revolutionized leisure time for discerning drinkers and bartenders alike.

  by Ken Walczak

• Environment

  

  Why the Renewables Boom Could Be in Danger

  The country faces a real risk of the growth of wind and solar slowing, instead of continuing to speed up.

  by Sarah Laskow

• Environment

  

  Carpooling Quietly Booms in San Francisco

  Can "casual carpool"-the Bay Area's grassroots solution to traffic-go global? Every weekday, between 6:00 and 9:30 in the morning, a stream of...

  by Adam Starr

• Business

  

  The Infrastructure Job Boom That Could Save Us All!

  Well looky here: Some people are hiring, after all. Our good friends at Infrastructist, the new blog that will make infrastructure news sexy, has...

  by Siobhan O'Connor