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Brad Pitt's Foundation Unveils Floating Home That Rises Up (and Away) in Floods

It's inevitable that a Katrina-style hurricane will strike again. But maybe this time we should be prepared to go with the flow--literally. Brad Pitt's Make it Right Foundation unveiled today the Float House, a home that can break ...READ»

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Five Endangered Cultural Monuments That Need Your Help

The World Monuments Fund has released its annual watch list of architectural and heritage sites desperately in need of preservation. Five are especially hard-hit from recent political and environmental events.READ»

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Brad Pitt's Foundation Unveils 14 Home Designs for New Orleans

Pitt's foundation, Make it Right, eventually hopes to build 150 houses in the Ninth Ward--completely remaking the blighted neighborhood.READ»

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Fast Cities 2009: The 13 Most Creative Cities in the World

Seattle is Fast Company's City of the Year, and singular bright ideas have earned 12 other cities places on our honor roll. Their initiatives are improving neighborhoods, transforming lives, and helping build better cities for the future.READ»

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Fast Cities: New Orleans

The recovery of post-Katrina New Orleans has unleashed a new generation of social entrepreneurs. A sterling example: the Broadmoor Improvement Association and its dynamic president, LaToya Cantrell. Broadmoor is a racially mixed, middle-class historic district dating to the 1920s.READ»

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25-Foot Junk Food Pyramid to Raise Awareness... and Hunger

Junk food tastes better than it looks--place a pile of neon orange Cheetos next to a basket of fresh strawberries to see for yourself. Now an unidentified group of people (or person) wants to show us just how unappealing junk food ...READ»

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1BOG, SunRun Leverage Power of Community for Cheap Solar Energy in LA

Buying a solar system on the cheap just got a whole lot easier for Los Angeles residents now that 1 Block Off the Grid (1BOG), a community solar purchasing program, is in town. 1BOG, a hit in the Bay Area, is partnering with ...READ»

10 Coolest Innovators Rebuilding New Orleans

Ravaged by Katrina and accosted by Gustav, New Orleans, the city best known for its Mardi Gras and musicians (and now for its hurricanes) is gradually being reconstructed. The New Orleans 100 showcases one hundred world-changing ...READ»

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Rebuilding New Orleans: Ten Coolest Innovators

Three years after Katrina, the nation's most expensive hurricane, which cost insurers an estimated $44 billion, came Gustav. As if New Orleans needed its rebuilding project to get any harder. And yet, there’s hope. To underscore how far the city has come since 2005, alldaybuffet, a group of creative professionals focused on social innovation, created the New Orleans 100, a list of projects that are bringing new creative energy, attracting tourism, rebuilding homes, overhauling the educational system, and stimulating economic activity. Here are 10 of the most innovative ventures.READ»

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