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The Most Important Most-Important-Thing

According to a recent poll cited in Newsweek, the number of Americans who believe that global warming is caused by human activity is 36%. That’s down from 47% just a year ago. Only 57% of Americans believe the world is warming at ...READ»

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Policy Changes Yield Better Buildings in New York

New York's new program for encouraging better public architecture has just born fruit, in a new community center designed by George Ranalli. As the Wall Street Journal's Ada Louise Huxtable writes: ...the Saratoga Avenue ...READ»

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A "Traffic Light" System Designed to Improve Your Food Decisions

Food labels are mystifying: Even armed with data about nutritional content, consumers still can't seem to make healthier choices with the information, if the obesity epidemic is any guide. One idea for solving the problem is ...READ»

Transportation

Fabulist Ray Kurzweil Tackles Transportation Problem with Nanobots

The new issue of GOOD magazine is a timely one, dedicated entirely to transportation. It includes an interactive, before and after graphic showing exactly how urban planners would go about making a forbidding city street ...READ»

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Coming Soon: Nontrepreneur Nation

Coming Soon: Nontrepreneur Nation How parenting and education are killing American entrepreneurship and innovation Despite how U.S. students continue to lag far behind those in Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and ...READ»

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