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Meet the Young, Black Entrepreneurs Remaking New Orleans
New Orleans' renaissance isn't just due to educated white kids. It's also thanks to young black professionals from around the country.
Cities
Exploring New Orleans, Startup by Startup
New Orleans startups want your feedback.
Education
Big Class Takes a Big Step Towards Literacy
The adult illiteracy rate in New Orleans is nearly twice the national average. A student-driven program called Big Class is changing that.
Education
Students Say New Orleans Schools Are No Education "Miracle"
Students from six New Orleans high schools say that when it comes to post-Katrina reform, it's far too soon to declare "mission accomplished".
Cities
Six Years After Katrina, Let's Celebrate New Orleans
Highlights from GOOD's New Orleans Issue on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
Education
Ten Commencement Speakers You Wish You'd Had
These ten speakers inspired but still kept it real with their audiences, making their graduation speeches memorable years after they were given.
Cities
"Before I Die..." An Abandoned Building Transformed Into a Public Bucket List
The artist Candy Chang has transformed an abandoned house in New Orleans into a public forum where people declare what they want to do before dying.
Education
Yellow School Bus on the Loose: A Cross-Country Trip to Save Public Schools
Four young entrepreneurs are on a 10,000-mile journey to learn how they can best help schools before giving money.
Cities
Forget Twitter, Try Stickers: Low-Tech Project Inspires Community Engagement in New Orleans
Candy Chang's civic engagement project has captured plenty of hearts and minds with the use of decidedly low-tech stickers and Sharpies.
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Eight Good Things to Do This Weekend
Looking to pitch in and make a difference this weekend? From New Orleans to Seattle, from polar bear plunges to dandelion wine, we got you covered.
Education
Year in Review 2010: 12 Stories That Rocked The Education Reform World
Design
Fake Realtors Imagine Artistic Uses for Neglected Buildings
New work from Hypothetical Developments continues to advertise imaginary buildings and call attention to what New Orleans lacks.
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The Senate Begins Impeachment Trial
Who's getting removed from office this time?
Design
"I Wish This Was": Stickers Imagine an Improved New Orleans
Candy Chang's new project, I Wish This Was, uses fill-in-the-blank stickers to let residents of New Orleans provide ad hoc civic input.
Design
Intermission: New Orleans's Abandoned Six Flags
Six Flags New Orleans closed for Hurricane Katrina five years ago and never reopened.
Environment
NRDC and StoryCorps Bring You Oral Histories of Gulf Life After BP
Six months after the fatal Deepwater Horizon explosion, NRDC and StoryCorps have partnered to bring oral histories of life in the post-BP gulf.
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Transparency: The Cities Where Sprawl Makes the Commute the Worst
What creates traffic jams isn't more cars and fewer highways, it's sprawl. See our infographic on the longest sprawl-induced commutes in America.
Design
Ads for Imaginary Buildings Highlight Lack of Real Development
Hypothetical Development places architectural renderings for imaginary, never-gonna-happen places on vacant, dilapidated buildings in New Orleans.
