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Facebook Doesn't Need Your Money; Invest in Africa Instead
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A Geodesic Dome Promises Fish from the Sky
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Pet Diaries: The Joint-Custody Dog Who Taught Me to Move On
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Humor Is an Online Activist’s Best Defense
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GOOD Pictures: Go Outside
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From Tweet to Street: Anti-Poverty Campaign Takes Supporters' Messages to Camp David
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Pet Diaries: The Joint-Custody Dog Who Taught Me to Move On
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GOOD Maker Challenge: How Would You Use Storytelling to Improve your Community?
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork
I'd like to give a special call out to U.S Airways, who not only charge $2 for a bottle of much needed water on the plane (tip to travelers: the...
nThis new turbine design, by a company called Magenn Power, uses a blimp-like, floating windwheel to harvest wind power where there's lots of...
Forget 2012. A Rapture-like alien drive-by is days away! Fear October 14th. Yeah, today. According to an Australian psychic called Blossom...

A La Niña winter spells lots of snow in the North and drought in the Southwest-just the sort of extreme weather we associate with climate change.

What ski resorts will get dumped on this La Niña winter and what regions will be left high and dry? Climate Central's Heidi Cullen explains.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is a front for the biggest corporations and polluters. Small businesses are saying "the chamber doesn't speak for me."
We went on a little rant about being afraid of terrorism the other day. We still stand by it. But it gets harder when things like this happen....
If Fox News started a gas station, it'd probably be this one - Terror-Free Oil. Yes, this really exists, and yes, they sell freedom fries.
We may not be hearing much about that vague "war on terror" anymore. While Obama did use the phrase in his remarks to the Pentagon last week,...
You know that ridiculous color-coded terrorism threat level chart? The Department of Homeland Security is reevaluating whether a vague system for...
If al Qaeda needs Afghanistan as a safe haven, we can't afford to leave. The complexities of Afghanistan defy salvation by the answer to any...

Check out UPS's progress for reducing carbon emissions, increasing fuel efficiency, and reducing noise in their airline fleet.
A 22-year-old sociology student was accused of "conspiring to commit animal enterprise terrorism" after he refused to out the radical...
Click through to see the full map, and read the full story here. Via Times Online. (Thanks, Will.)
Terrible news coming out of North Korea: After a five-day closed trial, the two journalists nabbed by NK authorities were sentenced to 12 years in...
From Boing Boing comes this video, by Al Jazeera, which offers one look at a legal battle between a resident of the polluted Niger Delta and...
Well, this is interesting: During their working life, undocumented immigrants in the United States will pay, on average, approximately $80,000...
A new website shows you how chemicals and the razzle dazzle of molecular gastronomy might save the world, or at least reduce your carbon footprint.

Ben Critton asks why popular films insist that a preference for modern architecture signifies something cold dubious about your character.

We asked the inventor-illustrator Steven M. Johnson to find examples of products and ideas that move the world forward in creative ways.


