News
The Year of Magical Thinking
What the health care debate and the credit crisis have in common Did you hear? Barrack Hussein Obama wants to pull the plug on your granny, so...
Design
BLDG a Better Architecture Blog
Geoff Manaugh's BLDG BLOG draws daring connections between architecture, science fiction, and pop culture-and draws an audience. If you've...
Business
The World’s Most Progressive Company? Wal-Mart, by a Mile
The Beast from Bentonville (and the world's largest private employer) announced that it's backing employer mandates for health care. That's not...
Technology
Better Choices Through Technology
Can augmented reality technology finally make it easy to do the right thing? Last week was huge for a young technology called "augmented...
Environment
Exploration Architecture
Michael Pawlyn's pioneering designs mimic nature's closed-loop systems to help us thrive in extreme resource scarcity. Most "green building"...
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The Atlas Obscura
Joshua Foer and Dylan Thuras are cataloging the world's weirdest places to foster a new age of curiosity. An enormous concrete dome that seals...
Environment
Home Improvement
Why the problem of fixing our buildings is so vague-and what we can do about it We're hardwired to address the smaller problems that we can...
Business
Crop and Trade
Eleni Gabre-Madhin knows that efficient markets can save lives. In 1984, she was an undergrad studying economics at Cornell when a famine...
Environment
Don't Buy Green
Trying to limit your environmental impact? Buying "eco-friendly" stuff doesn't help. Before attending trade shows flogging "green" products, I...
News
A Tax, by Any Other Name
Let's rethink taxes so people feel good about chipping in. A carbon cap and trade program sounds great in theory. By giving companies...
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Bike Commuting and Living to Tell About It
Plenty of people-including us-will gladly tell you to get out of your car, and get on a bike: You'll winnow your carbon footprint to a baby...
Business
A New Model for Better Homes
How one architecture start-up with a novel business plan is giving away plans for LEED-certified homes for free-and heading towards...
Environment
A Primer: Can Algae Replace Gas?
The clean-energy promise of one of the planet's simplest organisms Can algae, that banal scourge of the swimming pool, fuel an...
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Nature Hacking
Four ways scientists are co-opting nature to solve the problems of the 21st century This past summer, the super-chef Dan Barber, who runs a...
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Lessons from Groundhog Day
Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning, and according to legend that means we're in for six more weeks of winter. But Phil has a motley...
Business
Don't Be (Quite As) Evil
Corporations might start doing good instead of advertising-but only if consumers pay attention These are scary days if you're in the ad...
Design
Dance Dance Revolution
Lincoln Center gets a pedestrian-friendly redesign from Diller Scofidio + Renfro If you've ever been to New York, you've probably been past...
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A Glimpse at the Future of Journalism
What will the news look like after the newspapers disappear? Journalists and analysts are once again thrashing around, tearing out their hair,...
