- August 31, 2009 • 2:25 pm PDT
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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
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The Tricky Calculus of Setting a Price for MIT's Online Courses
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Lessons from Prop. 8: Why We Shouldn't Put Our Civil Rights Up for a Popular Vote
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Intermission: The Most Beautiful Valentine Ever Made
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Labor of Love: 4 Lessons From My Imperfect Love Life
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Wastelands Around the World Unite! Cities' Forgotten Spaces Become Artists' Canvases
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Your typical brick is fired up in coal-fueled kilns that use up plenty of trees and coal. That one brick ends up emitting 1.3 pounds of carbon...
You think the wall that America keeps talking about building on the Mexican border is a big deal? Saudi Arabia is thinking about building a 500...

The structures of Angeleno faith appear in stunning photographs.
Yep, it's today. You see, 2.6 billion people lack access to basic sanitary units (toilets, clean water). WaterPartners International wants to...
Anders Wilhelmson, a Swedish architect, professor, and entrepreneur, has developed this thing called the Peepoo bag. It's a single-use toilet...

Kimberly-Clark announces tube-free toilet paper. Can it change the industry?

See how social entrepreneurs are solving messy human problems in Kenya.
Astronauts train for years to learn to perform their duties properly. They learn how to fly a shuttle, walk in space, and perform feats of physics...

Tribewanted is building sustainable tourism in Sierra Leone from the ground up. Here's an update on the progress.

Toilet taboos are literally killing people around the world. So find an artsy/activist event in your neighborhood to save lives with potty talk.

Plastic bottles line the streets of many Guatemalan towns, so a nonprofit is turning the litter into building materials for schoolhouses.
This device (video below) shreds your sensitive business documents and turns them into new toilet paper. Absolutely brilliant. So obviously...
Today is World Toilet Day, which aims to call attention to the crisis of water sanitation around the wold.

New Hospital opens this week in Rural Rwanda.
Good news: Global warming means fewer hurricanes in the Atlantic. Bad news: that likely means more offshore drilling.

Times Square, Central Park, and other public places in New York are now smoke free. Is it fair?

How did Toronto become a model for multiculturalism and diversity?
How an influential group of citizen journalists and bloggers are keeping New Orleans honest. This article originally appeared in GOOD Issue 020:...

GOOD's Guide to NOLA Basics originally appeared in GOOD Magazine's New Orleans Issue. Read more from the magazine here. Louis Armstrong jazz...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns talks to GOOD about his best drinking story, his new documentary Prohibition, and American drinking culture.