- February 28, 2008 • 10:15 am PST
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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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Obama loves the internet. He just launched another website, Recovery.gov, to track the $787 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment...
Four Detroit public high schools have decided classroom time should be used to train 60 students to work at Walmart. A new partnership gives...

A novel solution to the sedentary workplace is to replace the office chair with an exercise bike.

Solar-power systems are going to need to provide energy at night or on cloudy days. A team of MIT engineers has a new idea to do just that.

Most Americans go to public university, if they go to college at all. Yet so many of our role models were educated by a handful of elite schools.
According to new research from psychologists at Florida State University, praying works. Not at getting God to do stuff (that's hard to test) but...

Net Impact has advice to make positive changes at work, like starting a recycling program and making sure your company sources products responsibly.

A peek into all the good going on in New York state through the Pepsi Refresh Project.

GOOD Food has a new feature: Food Studies. Our first post is from Erin, who is getting her master's in gastronomy.

The action hero plays cop in an absurd show of force in Phoenix.

Within the first six months of opening a factory, six out of the initial 25 female workers divorced their husbands.
Last August, Utah instituted a four-day workweek for 17,000 government employees. They started working four 10-hour days instead of five...

Where does work end and life begin? Five artists explore the increasingly uncertain place of work in 2010.

“We end up after the recession at a higher spending rate than we were at previously because we feel like we have to make up for lost time.”
Back in October, we heard about a German company that was patenting a system whereby the road itself could charge electric vehicles as they...

Breathe easy, New York. With fewer cars in Times Square the air there now has about half the pollution it did before.

As America's economy continues to flag, it might infuriate you to know that we're literally losing billions in a far-off desert.

A new report says millions of gays in America are leading "double lives." This isn't progress.
Those irascible culture-jammers known as the Yes Men are gearing up for a new stunt. You know the Yes Men from such pranks as creating a fake WTO...

Paula Crossfield's compelling vision of a food journalism that can bring farmers and eaters together to share what does work and fix what doesn't.