- May 23, 2009 • 12:00 pm PDT
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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
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork
Today, in India, the world's cheapest car hit the streets. Will our planet suffer the undue consequences of millions of suddenly-mobile Indians...
The supercheap Tata Nano car, which we've written about quite a bit in this blog, has a problem: spontaneous combustion. Over the last year, a...
The Tata Nano, the Indian-manufactured world's smallest car, has caused heated debate since its launch was announced last year. Some wonder if...
Volkswagen wants everyone to know how serious it is about making a mark on the burgeoning electric vehicle market. Three Volkswagen vehicles...
The Department of Energy gave out the first part of it's advanced technology loan fund for automakers. Who got how much? Ford: $5.9 billion...
Driving may be back up these days, but Hummer is gone for good: General Motors Co. said Wednesday it will shut down Hummer after its bid to sell...
Have rising gas prices actually made a difference in driving habits? Apparently, they have. Sort of. People are driving less, but more gas is...
Where does your money go when you pay for a gallon of gas? How much money are oil companies making? What affects the price of gas in the United...
Last summer, as gas prices seemed like they would never stop rising, there was a trumpeting of statistics that people were saving money by taking...
We've been following the electric car company Tesla with great interest around GOOD, so it came as a bit of a surprise to hear that it would...
The issues caused by rampant suburban sprawl are well known, but in this post on Planetizen, Michael Lewyn argues that living in the suburbs is...
Expansive public transit systems are expensive to build, and often are money-losers for the cities and states that maintain them. Over at...
What was once a promising electric vehicle venture might be losing some steam, according to a recent article on Treehugger, which measures the...
Building a major highway through a city reduces that city's population by 18 percent. That is the finding of a new study by Brown University...
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...
Ford Motor Company announced its latest sustainability initiative at the 2010 National Automobile Dealers Association Convention over the weekend....
Mercedes-Benz is entering the luxury hybrid market. This Sunday the company will reveal their "Tree of Innovation" ad campaign for the S400 during...
A new hub for food trucks expands the offerings beyond tacos. Food trucks are typically pretty hard to pin down. While some may argue that's the...
If you were thinking about buying an electric car in California, this will be welcome news: Rebates of up to $5,000 per light-duty vehicle are...
The artist Josef Schulz's new series "Sign Out" features a collection of American roadside signs, but with the text digitally removed, creating a...