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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.
Education
Students Design a Smartphone App That Diagnoses Malaria
These grad students designed Lifelens, an app that lets you snap picture of a blood sample to determine if it's infected with malaria.
Education
Brain Drain: How Our Thirst for Academic Talent Hurts the Rest of the World
While a top international scholar is teaching in the States, who's educating college students back in that professor's homeland?
Lifestyle
This HIV-Preventing Gel Comes with a Bonus: Heightened Sexual Pleasure
The same gel that helps prevent HIV may also have a welcome side effect.
Culture
Should Journalists Who Witness Killings Try and Stop Them?
A new killing in South Africa raises the question about when it's right to intervene to try and save a life.
Culture
At MoMA: The Art of South Africa's Social Upheaval
A new exhibit on South African artwork at the MoMA in New York offers a compelling look at three decades of the nation's social struggle.
Business
South African Beadwork Raises Money for HIV/AIDS Infected Women
Positive Beadwork Projects is helping more than 100 women with HIV/Aids support their families in South Africa.
Design
Transparency: GOOD's Most Popular Infographics of 2010
A look back at the infographics that drew the most attention, on topics from happiness to Burning Man
Culture
Photographer Documents South Africa in Large-Format, Gritty Color
In all the excitement over the World Cup, the media publicized one side of South Africa—new stadiums, $6 billion worth of government spending,...
Environment
The World Cup Will Emit 2,753,251 Tons of CO2
While soccer fans worldwide gave their rapt attention to World Cup matches this weekend, Treehugger paused to consider the carbon emissions...
Education
Hlokomela: A Soccer Tournament South Africans Can Actually Afford
The basic contradiction of a World Cup is plain. All that heady populism—Davids taking on Goliaths in the sport everyone can afford to play—is...
Culture
Will the World Cup Shrink South Africa's Racial Divide?
The sports world’s eyes are on South Africa this month, as soccer’s World Cup extravaganza gets under way. You may have heard that this is the...
The Community Board
Bicycle Portraits - everyday South Africans and their bicycles. A photographic book in the making.
Bicycle Portraits is a photographic study of contemporary South African bicycle commuter culture. Photographers Stan Engelbrecht and Nic...
Culture
Intermission: Write the Future
Yes, it's a Nike ad. Yes, it has a corporate agenda. But that doesn't make it any less compelling an example of the sheer magnitude of the FIFA...
Cities
South Africa's World Cup Infrastructure Dream
When the FIFA World Cup comes to South Africa next month, the country can expect all the fervor of fútbol: 32 teams representing their homelands...
Transparency
Transparency: The Most Homicidal Countries
With Halloween around the corner, the idea of being stabbed by a deranged murderer is at the front of our minds. Our latest transparency is a...
The Community Board
Put a little love
I first heard of Lucky Dube while on a surfing safari in Costa Rica with 3 of my best friends. We were sitting in a brazillian-run cafe...
Design
Hippo Rollers
In rural Africa, women spend 26% of their time fetching water, often walking for miles with heavy buckets balanced on their heads. That's time...
