Nature Is Bad For The Economy: This Street Art Makes You Question Your Values
"The Economy," a guerrilla art project, wants you to remember that what’s best for the economy might not always be what’s best for human beings.
Breeding Wheat To Grow Where Other Plants Can’t
A massive amount of otherwise useable land is too salty for plants to flourish. Instead of leaving it fallow, what if we just made plants like saltier soil?
5 Commitments To Become Part Of A Solution To The World’s Problems
Written by: Bob Doppelt
To move from a individual, resource-intensive world, to one where we work collectively to manage what we have, requires some new thinking about how we each live our lives.
Lemonopoly: An Online Game That Trades In Real-World Lemons
In an attempt to get people more focused on the local produce available to them, this new game pits communities against each other in trying to harvest the most wild fruit.
Steampunking An Old Building To Make It More Efficient
New architecture is great, but in some cases people in the 19th century had things figured out just fine. Sometimes the best way to make a building cutting edge is to go back to the original design.
What Makes A Happy City?
What makes the people in Stockholm the most satisfied in the world? Open spaces, not too much traffic, and a fast Internet connection. Why can’t all cities be so lovely?
Ma Jun Keeps Your iPhone From Killing People
The crusader for environmental and worker rights in China has worked for years to make sure that Apple’s production process isn’t poisoning workers or the environment. But Apple is just one of many companies who have been forced to do better because of Ma’s work.
Extraordinary Greens: Putting Farms Into Our Furniture
What’s more local than lettuce growing in your couch?
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Google’s Story Of Send: What Happens When You Send An Email
An email seems ephemeral, but actually takes a lot of infrastructure to get from one computer to another. Google’s new video shows off their new energy-saving process for what happens after you hit "send."
Electric Avenue
The Plug-In Hybrid Of Your Dreams: Porsche 918 Spyder Supercar Photos Revealed
Check out these photos of the newest super-fast, super-sexy addition to the world of electric cars.
Catching Cans Instead Of Cod
A pilot project to pay fisherman to haul up trash instead of fish was such a success, it’s being expanded. Since we’ve caught almost all the fish, maybe we can catch all the trash, too.
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Unreasonables, Episode 13: When There Isn’t A Life-Saving Solution, Build One
Discovering there was no portable way to test for an easily curable yet deadly disease, this social entrepreneur wasn’t daunted. He just invented a test that worked.
Why HBO Is Opening Salad Bars In Elementary Schools
HBO’s ambitious new documentary on the obesity crisis is accompanied by a massive awareness campaign, and even outright attempts to get our kids better food.
The Future Of Collaboration
5 Lessons For Using Open Innovation To Maximize The Wisdom Of The Crowd
Written by: Pascal Finette
Forget the idea of a lone inventor coming up with a genius idea in his garage. The future of innovation is in the crowd, and by using a big group’s best ideas, you can find the best way to solve any problem.
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