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Business
GiftFlow Wants to Build Local Economies Around Free Stuff
It's like eBay and CouchSurfing had a kid—a way to build community and reduce waste by sharing freely with your neighbors.
Cities
Watch a Video of GOOD LA's Launch Weekend
Back in April, we threw a big, three-day event to celebrate Los Angeles and the people who are moving the city forward. Here's what it looked like.
Business
'Move Your Money' and Help Your Local Community
Make change today by putting your change into a community bank. Two million other people have already join the campaign to "Move Your Money."
Education
Video: Chicago Teachers Surprise Students with "Thriller" Flash Mob
The South Side charter school's staff turns to Michael Jackson to boost student "zest."
Cities
NeighborGoods Makes It Easier to Share Your Stuff With Groups of Any Size
Now existing groups—businesses, neighborhoods, or even entire cities—can set up private sharing networks with NeighborGoods.
Lifestyle
Training Non-Doctors to Treat Patients: A Suprisingly Simple Global Health Solution
Another look at how community health workers can impact the developing world, and potentially the United States, as well.
Education
Laura Bush Thinks "Middle School Matters" and She's Right
The Former First Lady wants to stop the nation's dropout crisis before kids even get to high school. The research backs her idea up.
Lifestyle
Food for Thinkers: Writing About Numbers to Hack the Food System
Food + Tech Connect's Danielle Gould finds that writing is her most important tool to build a more transparent, data-driven food system.
Lifestyle
Food for Thinkers: Journalism at its Best
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.
Lifestyle
Food for Thinkers: Food Writing in the Age of the Internet
Annie Wang of Frites and Fries wonder what a food writer is to do, now that the internet has turned everyone into an expert?
Lifestyle
Food for Thinkers: Evan Kleiman on How Cooking and Feeding Expresses Humanity
Evan Kleiman, host of KCRW's Good Food radio show, argues that food writing "is an intellectual and emotional funnel" to life's fundamental issues.
Business
Pando Projects: An (Aspiring) Support Network for Community Projects
Pando Project wants to help you improve your neighborhood-with a mentor, money, training. But right now, Pando needs help to start.
Education
Geoffrey Canada to Headline Chicago Education Summit
Can Geoffrey Canada's education-reform blueprint transform public school in Chicago?
Culture
Should Quidditch be an NCAA Sport? The Real-Life World Cup of a Fictional Sport
Thousands of somewhat athletic Harry Potter fans donned silly outfits and custom brooms to participate in the real life Quidditch World Cup.
Design
Image of the Day: Mando Veve's Entry to the 1200 Posters Project
Every month for the next year, an artist will design a poster based on a line from Margaret Wheatley's "Turning to One Another." Here's Mando Veve's.
Education
Teach For America Focuses on Closing the Hispanic Achievement Gap
Hispanic children are three times as likely to live in a low-income community, and thus attend a lower-performing school. Find out how you can help.
Culture
Tribewanted: Welcoming Its First Group to Build on the Shores of John Obey Beach
After the first 11 tribemembers arrive on the shores of John Obey Beach in Sierra Leone, solar panels, permaculture gardens and friendships are made.
Design
Winners of the Build a Better Burb Competition Reimagine Downtown
Long Island asked architects to kick 'burbs to the curb in this recent design competition.
