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What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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This Valentine's Day, Celebrate All Kinds of Love
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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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
A tree may grow in Brooklyn, but there's a 14-acre farm in South Central Los Angeles. It's been there since 1994, donated to residents by the...
This is not appropriate for workplace environments (unless you turn off the sound), but check out Roofsex, when furniture goes wild..
For the past seven years, the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center's "Warm Up" summer series has transformed the museum's courtyard into a vast array of...
A new exhibit on South African artwork at the MoMA in New York offers a compelling look at three decades of the nation's social struggle.
Let's face it: Maintaining a productive garden can be hard, especially if you don't have spare time or space. But there's still a way to grow...
Documentary photographer Matt Black takes incredible portraits of the forgotten people on some of the most productive farmland in California.
And you thought LA was bad? The 10 most polluted places on Earth, and none of them are in America.Via Mental Floss.
On [i]Extreme Makeover: Home Edition[/i], Denise Cramsey leads a nationwide broadcast on the strength of community.
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...
Those Scandinavians have done it again. Excess body heat in Stockholm's Central Station is being used to heat a building across the street.
Over the past few years, movie producer (Revenge of the Nerds) and philanthropist Peter Samuelson became concerned by the increasing numbers of...
Paint your roof white. By Hashem Akbari As the threat of climate change becomes more pronounced, a number of scientists have proposed...
Mike Yohay, the founder and CEO of Cityscape Farms, is on top of the world. Or rather, his business is. This fall, he’ll begin realizing his...
Nothing But Nets reports good news about the spread of malaria nets in the Central African Republic
Late last week, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders introduced an awfully ambitious bill, one that aims to put solar panels on the roofs of 10 million...
The directing team behind music videos for Björk and Grizzly Bear is building a town and farm from the ground up in the hills of central California.
For Project 012 we asked for your ideas for improving a local school. Joy Osborn, a middle school English teacher in Harlem, sent us this...
Guest blogger Seth Shostak proposed painting our roads white a few days ago, creating somewhat of a hubbub. The idea of painting roofs white is a...
Green roofs are a good idea. Here's an abridged list of their benefits: lowering heating and cooling costs; mitigating the urban heat island...
Green or white roofs are preferable to tar roofs, but the idea needs some refining before it goes mainstream.
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