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Naked Sells

“We plan to triple our sales of what we call Good for You products, including fruit and vegetable juices, oatmeal, nuts, seeds, low-fat dairy, sports drinks for athletes over the next decade,” explained Dr. Derek Yach, Senior Vice ...READ»

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Causes of Child Deaths Hiding in Plain Sight

New Save the Children and UNICEF Reports reveal how financial mismanagement and environmental insensitivity led to the deaths of four million children.READ»

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How to Help Pakistan's Flood Victim

Millions in Pakistan need clean water, sanitary food, housing and medical care. Organizations are now on the ground helping those displaced by the worst floods in 80 years. Here's how you can support their efforts.READ»

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Switch: Don't Solve Problems--Copy Success

An exclusive book excerpt by Fast Company columnists Chip Heath and Dan Heath, best-selling authors of Made to Stick.READ»

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Haiti Earthquake Disaster

We have all seen the terrible devastation in Haiti caused by the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday. An estimated 50,000 people have lost their lives, bodies are lining the streets and people search for lost friends ...READ»

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An Innovative, Collaborative Tech Nonprofit to Change the World

This is a story about what can happen when a small group of smart, innovative people take a high tech startup mentality and apply it to the nonprofit world.  In a nutshell, it works.I first became aware of the org when I was ...READ»

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"Classroom of the Future" Finalists Are Cool Enough for School

Architecture for Humanity has just announced finalists in a competition to design classrooms in the developing world and beyond.READ»

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East Harlem School: Contemporary Design, at a Bargain Price

Peter L. Gluck and Partners have just completed a new school in New York--and gave back $500,000 to the board after finishing.READ»

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Living in the Desert--and Barely Needing an AC

Clever design allows a simple vacation home in the desert to stay cool in the blazing heat.READ»

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Poetic Dutch School Has Writing on the Wall, And the Floor, Tables...

Dutch architects i29 and Snelder have designed a school that inverts everything about traditional education buildings. Gone are wall posters and noticeboards, institutional green paint schemes and a jumble of colors. Instead, it's ...READ»

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Norman Foster's Plan to Save the Children: Build a School for Sierra Leone

Lord Foster designs a low-cost school for charity.READ»

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Plastic Fantastic: Barbie and Kartell Rock Milan

The world's favorite plastic party girl and the furniture industry's favorite plastic purveyor have teamed up in a brilliant collaboration to celebrate their respective birthdays at the big furniture fair in Milan. ...READ»

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Take the Brand Challenge

"Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are trying to get ideas." -- Paula Poundstone It's my first meeting with Mickey Drexler, CEO of the Gap, and I am a bit nervous. We talk on the ...READ»

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Positive Deviant

Jerry Sternin's job was to help save starving children in Vietnam. Faced with an impossible time frame, he adopted a radical approach to making change. His idea: Real change begins from the inside.READ»

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Giving Back

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Fast Pack 2000

Can hope scale up? Can change scale down? Can leadership grow from the grass roots? What's the meaning of "Dotcom Mania"? Some of the best brains in the Fast Company community convened on Nantucket for the roundtable of the year.READ»

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How to Make Your Career Move

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