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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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Infographic: Understanding Social Enterprise
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Is it Time to 'Occupy Teach For America'?
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork

And other pressing questions that should have matter-of-fact answers but do not

I'll say it on behalf of tall women everywhere: Don't stoop to the haters' level.

The Nairobi River is a coagulated black mass emitting a vicious stench. But the memory of cool, still water remains.

If height and income were proportional, the average American would be waist high. The rich would be two miles tall. The poor? Nearly invisible.
If you like living on the edge, try a piece of this reclaimed glass jewelry. We're sure it's all been smoothed and polished so that you can't kill...
Begging street children are a serious problem in India. There are 20 million youthful panhandlers. An ad agency has designed a wonderful campaign...

Gallup polling has put together a composite of what America's happiest man probably looks like.
An Italian company called Sugarkane is making asymmetrical glasses. It might be tough to sell these. Symmetry has, after all, been the "in"...
A Foreign Policy index imparts an unfortunate piece of information about worldwide gender equality. Their graphic shows the percentage of college...
The recently-launched website is a way to bring legendary salons held in the modern house to an even wider audience.

A dispatch from the home waters of the Upper Midwest

They put so many things in the water. And we put the water in ourselves, on ourselves.

As romantic as the ocean is to a desert girl, it's totally worthless in the water conversation.
Looks like the bottled-water-as-accessory-of-the-evil thing has truly taken off (that, or the recession is making more people take to the tap)....
Enjoying bottled water is not as new a trend as many believe. In the Roman Empire, earthen jars filled with naturally carbonated water from...
In our ongoing effort here at GOOD (Casey's Crusade, as I like to call it) to make you feel slightly bad about drinking bottled water, and as...

A refreshing look into the peculiar origins of the carbon dioxide bubbles in our drinks.

At long last, the EPA has decided to limit the amount of perchlorate, a component of rocket fuel, in our drinking water.

One of the hazards of hydraulic fracturing could be a toxic food and water supply—and not just in the epicenter of the natural gas boom.

The financial bubble. The housing bubble. And now for a refreshingly different bubbly for the new year—free bubbly tap water.

