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today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork

Get your cameras ready. For November's challenge, we're asking you to document your life, from the highlight of your day to a room in your home.

In this edition of the new business video series Green Room: how selling eyeglasses can fight poverty.

Take a look at our favorite snapshots from today's #30DayofGOOD Challenge: Document a room in your house.

An interactive multi-year map of regional homeless populations shows you how many are on your streets and how that's changed since 2005.

A new app called Home Elephant is kind of like an online neighborhood-watch-plus-bulletin-board for hyperlocal communities.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is conducting a homeless census. Find out how to pitch in.

In a heart-warming display of the power of the internet, the homeless man with the golden voice from yesterday's viral video now has job offers.

As hipsters go crazy to music this weekend, thousands of immigrant families are suffering just down the road.
In what is being touted as "a major step in bringing about a clean energy economy," a new coal plant in Utah was told it had to mitigate its...
Two years ago, Chris Paine, the writer and director of Who Killed the Electric Car?, purchased a mid-century modern house on a hillside in...
At 8 feet 5.5 inches, Leonid Stadnyk has officially been named the World's Tallest Man by the Guinness Book of World Records. It's amazing, to be...
Need a break? If you've got the means, head over to England, where scientists at the University of Hertforshire have cobbled together a...
A graphical breakdown of the Nation's homeless, their backgrounds and demographics.
Google teams up with San Francisco and unveils a new plan to give every homeless person in the city a life-long phone number and voicemail, should...
Design by Matthew Manos.
For those of us who've always wanted a house upstate, but have known that, were that fantasy to become reality, it'd have to be a really tiny...
Rosanne Haggerty is a busy woman. The 40-something, Macarthur Genius and Founder of the non-profit Common Ground has a campaign to run. Her goal?...
Panhandling's major deficiency is that it rarely supplies passersby with enough information to want to give money. A person is suffering, but who...
An exhibit in New York City teaches us how a city's infrastructure informs its urban wildlife-and vice versa. Rambling from Times Square to outer...
RxArt aims to improve the patient experience at hospitals with art by Jeff Koons and Ryan McGinness. Can it actually help them get better faster?