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Environment
Just Dye It: Nike Moves to Limit Water Pollution
Right now, dyeing fabric uses tremendous amounts of water. Nike's partnering with a company that could change that.
News
GOOD Maker Winner: Text Messages Boost Immunizations and Save Lives in India
More than 500 parents will receive critical vaccination alerts for their newborns via text message.
Education
Mobile Schools Bring Learning to Low-Income Kids
New Delhi's school on wheels is bringing education opportunities to India's slums.
Culture
People Are Awesome: Man Becomes Pen Pals With Daughter of Man He Killed in War
Almost 50 years after shooting down a plane in the Indo-Pakistani War, a pilot wrote a letter to his victim's daughter.
Environment
Free Flowing: How to Keep Our Water Supply Public
Italians have voted not to let private companies take over their public water supply. Our fight in the U.S. is much quieter.
Environment
Why Isn't It Easier to Build Small Houses?
This tiny house costs $700, takes up 215 square feet, and would likely be illegal to build in the United States.
Education
How the American School System Can Train Kids for High-Tech Jobs
Unemployment is high, but there are tons of open jobs in engineering and science. Here's how America's school system can fill the gap.
Environment
Slideshow: Take A Trip Down the Ganges With This Documentary Film Crew
A trip down the length of India's holy river.
Business
Question Box: Bringing the Power of the Internet to People Without Computers
Rose Shuman is bringing the life-saving value of a fast Google-type search to even the most remote parts of the globe.
Education
Outsourcing Education: Does It Matter If Someone in India Corrected Your College Paper?
That paper you think was corrected by a professor actually might have been marked up by someone halfway across the globe.
Education
Plain Ink: Comic Books for the Developing World
We got Osama bin Laden with a crack team of Navy SEALs, but there are other ways of fighting terrorism, too. Comic books, for example.
Lifestyle
Feast Your Eyes: The Atlas of Genetically Modified Crops
Where in the world are genetically modified crops grown?
Business
India, Japan Join Forces to Build "Green Cities"
Japan is using their energy efficiency know-how—and corporate tech—to help India build "green cities." And China doesn't like it.
Business
Can the CellScope Cell Phone Microscope Revolutionize Rural Health Testing?
This snappy device turns a cell phone into a microscope. But it will take more than technology to revolutionize rural health.
Education
State of the Union 2011: The Education Arms Race
Obama called for a "Sputnik" moment in education reform—except instead of competing against Russia to get to space, we're competing against Asia.
Lifestyle
In India, a Model for Low-Cost Heart Surgery
Devi Shetty's company, Narayana Hrudayalaya, has created a new program to build low-cost hospitals that provide specialty care to the poor.
Lifestyle
Food for Thinkers: In Tibet, An Edible Rebellion
High Peaks Pure Earth explains how tsampa and sweet tea are used as a tool of national identity and political resistance by Tibetans.
Technology
Leapfrog Technology: Cleaner Tech in Developing Nations
Why the developing world is home to the most innovative clean-energy solutions.
