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• Education

  

  Interactive Infographic: Tracking College Education in America

  This interactive map lets you see how college education has developed in the United States, and where you live.

  by Morgan Clendaniel

• Environment

  

  China's Pollution in Photos

  The media loves a good story about how China has shed its old industrial ways and is leading the charge into a clean economy. We've even done it,...

  by Morgan Clendaniel

• Lifestyle

  

  Look Up Pollution Levels in Your Area

  This We Know is a new site with a grand goal: to synthesize all public government data into a single semantic web application. They've got a way...

  by Andrew Price

• Environment

  

  One Blogger's Place on Earth, in Photographs

  Officially my favorite blog post of Earth Day: NRDC's Smart Growth expert Kaid Benfield puts everything into good perspective. Here's a tease...

  by Ben Jervey

• Environment

  

  The Five Worst Environmental Pollutants in Your Beauty Products

    By now we've already covered a little of how products can affect our health, but it bears reminding that what's good for us is also generally...

  by Jody Villecco

• Environment

  

  In Benin, Solar-Powered Irrigation Pollutes Less and Produces More

  Solar power and drip irrigation have improved the lives of people living in poverty. But few had ever tried combining the two.

  by Sarah Laskow

• Lifestyle

  

  Future Growing Pains Will Take Place in Petri Dishes

  That's an ear implant. It's getting seeded with cartilage cells at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, which is "part a...

  by Patrick James

• Environment

  

  In the United States, Polluting Is Really Cheap

  Activities that cause costly harm to our ecosystems and hurt public health enjoy a scandalously low tax rate.

  by Ben Jervey

• Environment

  

  Photos: In the 1970s, Green Innovation Amid Pollution

  Forty years ago this month, the Environmental Protection Agency sent photographers across the United States to document the state of the environment.

  by Sarah Laskow

• Cities

  

  Greenaid Places Seed-Bombs in Vintage Gumball Machines

  When you’re bequeathed several vintage gumball machines, the gift comes with a mandate to do something creative. But what? That was the dilemma...

  by Theo Schell-Lambert

• Environment

  

  Video: Better Place Opens First Battery Swap Station in Israel

  Here's the gloriously "unexciting" process of switching out an electric battery at Better Places first commercial swap station.

  by Ben Jervey

• News

  

  A Real-world Test of Better Place Car Battery Swapping in Tokyo

  Better Place (which we've covered here before) is an electric car company with an interesting model. To solve the infamous "range problem"—the...

  by Andrew Price

• Environment

  

  Chevron Ordered to Pay $8.6 Billion in Amazon Pollution Case

  Chevron is being ordered to pay a massive fee for pollution in Ecuador—and the amount will be doubled if the company doesn't apologize.

  by Ben Jervey

• Design

  

  Meet the Newest Geniuses

  The MacArthur Foundation has just released the 24 names of its 2009 class of fellows, who each will be receiving $100,000 a year for the next five...

  by Morgan Clendaniel

• Cities

  What Places, Themes, and People Should We Address in The New Orleans Issue?

  by GOOD

• Environment

  

  Toxic 100: Meet the Country's Worst Air Polluters

  An index and ranking of companies based on the chronic human health risk they create.

  by Ben Jervey

• Business

  

  GOODCo: The Newest GOOD Company Finalists

  Welcome Method and Zipcar, the two latest GOOD Company Project finalists.

  by Tim Fernholz

• News

  

  Sponsored Post: In New Orleans, the St. Bernard Project is Proving There's No Place Like Home

  Learn about St. Bernard Project, one of the most recognized and inspiring organizations dedicated to rebuilding homes after Katrina.

  by Fiona Lee

• News

  

  Grumpy the Clown: Brazil's Newest Elected Official

  The candidate may be illiterate and campaigned on a platform of "It can't get any worse." His campaign commercials are astounding.

  by Morgan Clendaniel

• News

  

  Stats Genius Nate Silver's Newest Predictions for Obama

  Everyone's favorite Nostradamus has some new predictions worth looking at. Nate Silver, the genius numbers guy behind Fivethirtyeight.com, has a...

  by Siobhan O'Connor