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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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The Subway Falafel Sandwich and the Americanization of Ethnic Food
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Want to Raise Young Leaders? Don't Hand Out Rewards So Easily
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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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Most Students Who Should Be Taking AP Exams Aren't
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GOOD Citizenship Task 10: Contact a Local Elected Leader on an Issue of Interest to You #30DaysofGOOD
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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It's Time for Some Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork

A new study shows exactly why interactions with DMV employees and other clerical workers can be so fraught.
A new study of several major European cities says that one key to cutting car emissions is eliminating parking options for drivers. Simple.

Do the risks of stopping foreign aid outweigh the need to balance the budget?

In Fresno, Superintendent Michael Powell is taking nearly a million-dollar hit for the good of his school district.
Would you take a 10 percent pay cut to save your coworkers' jobs? The Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez recently posed that very question in...

The tax cuts that President Bush enacted in 2001 and 2003 are about to expire, and with the U.S. deficit expected to rise to $1.47 trillion this...
GOOD and Catalogtree look at the value of U.S. government contracts awarded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The two teachers behind the "Two Teachers and a Microphone" video are back.
A new crowdsourced video by the directors of "Words" explores the complexity of our language.

A new hotel in Sweden is at one with the forest

Re:Form School is a group art exhibition designed to push new thinking about fixing America's schools. See previews of some of the art.

Will Etling takes us on a visual tour of the funniest, saddest, and most inventive methods of Christmas tree disposal on Southland sidewalks.
UPDATE: Project 011 is closed. The submissions are below, including the winning video from Ally Stoltz. Ally, we loved your biking tour of Venice,...

Proposed budget cuts would shrink funds for tsunami warning systems, like the one that alerted Hawaiians ten minutes after the Japanese quake.

And it looks pretty incestuous. What that means for the future of Merlot and biotechnology's role in breeding better vines.
Disillusioned by the lack of movement on global warming on the part of politicians, Motherboard's Brian Merchant looks to robots to make a case...

A Starbucks ad promoting environmentalism was the best commercial of the year. Climate activists should take notice.

We want you to tell us how you’re improving your community by sharing, lending, or freely giving something of value to others.

Simple but brilliant clothing tags are made of detergent paper, so they dissolve right in the washing machine.