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Change Generation

With A Pro-Pipeline Trump Presidency Looming, How Safe Is The #NoDAPL Win?

The protesters won a major victory this week, but the fight is far from over–especially once the pipeline company has President Trump on their side in the dispute.

With A Pro-Pipeline Trump Presidency Looming, How Safe Is The #NoDAPL Win?

While Eyes Were On Standing Rock, The Dakota Pipeline Was Being Drilled Under Another Water Source

While the pipeline may have been halted in North Dakota, construction workers just finished drilling under the Des Moines River, which supplies the water for half a million people in Iowa.

While Eyes Were On Standing Rock, The Dakota Pipeline Was Being Drilled Under Another Water Source

Afghanistan’s First Women-Only Coding School Just Graduated Its First Class

Some of Code to Inspire’s students didn’t even know what a keyboard was when they enrolled. Now they’re making apps.

Afghanistan’s First Women-Only Coding School Just Graduated Its First Class

Experimental City: How Rotterdam Became A World Leader In Sustainable Urban Design

Europe’s largest port–threatened by rising waters and a loss of its major industry–has reinvented itself as a playground for innovative thinkers who are trying to create a resilient city of the future.

Experimental City: How Rotterdam Became A World Leader In Sustainable Urban Design

These Mirrored Protest Signs Were Designed To Help Dakota Pipeline Activists Confront The Police

Protestors make the police face themselves.

These Mirrored Protest Signs Were Designed To Help Dakota Pipeline Activists Confront The Police

Bringing Virtual Reality To A Population That Needs It For Something More Than Gaming

Virtual reality lets the elderly see the world again.

Bringing Virtual Reality To A Population That Needs It For Something More Than Gaming

6 Ways Cities Can Prepare For The Future Of Work

From benefits that don’t come from your job to a basic income, cities need to be the laboratories to find solutions for a world where most tasks are automated.

6 Ways Cities Can Prepare For The Future Of Work

Spain Is Changing The Names Of Its Streets, From Autocratic Men To Notable Women

Why name a street after someone who worked for an oppressive dictator when you could name a street for Rosa Parks instead?

Spain Is Changing The Names Of Its Streets, From Autocratic Men To Notable Women

The Department Of Energy’s Efficiency-Based Reality Show Is Great Television

It’s Navy vs. Air Force in a battle over air-conditioning units and food waste biodigestion.

The Department Of Energy’s Efficiency-Based Reality Show Is Great Television

5 Concrete Ways You Can Act Now To Start Fighting Trump’s Policies

Activism is like exercising: Start with easy activities and work toward more. Here’s where to start.

5 Concrete Ways You Can Act Now To Start Fighting Trump’s Policies

Why This Young Designer Left Behind Couture And Evening Wear For Ethical Fashion

How Angela Luna went from high fashion to making clothes for refugees.

Why This Young Designer Left Behind Couture And Evening Wear For Ethical Fashion

These Apocalyptic Maps Show The Holes Income Inequality Has Left In Cities

Tall buildings represent the wealthy; short ones represent the poor. What’s missing? The middle class.

These Apocalyptic Maps Show The Holes Income Inequality Has Left In Cities

This Device From DARPA Makes Water-Cleaning Chlorine From Salt And A Car Battery

Now retrofitted for civilian use, the Community Chlorine Maker makes enough chlorine to treat water for a whole village. We just need to get it to them.

This Device From DARPA Makes Water-Cleaning Chlorine From Salt And A Car Battery

At This Pop-Up Shop, You’re Buying Clothes For The Homeless–Not Yourself

Crack and Cider lets you buy things like coats and hats, but they go directly to the homeless.

At This Pop-Up Shop, You’re Buying Clothes For The Homeless–Not Yourself

Bringing Conservatives And Liberals Together To Talk It Out After The Election

A series of new projects are finding ways to connect people on opposite sides of the political divide, for more measured conversations than we usually have online.

Bringing Conservatives And Liberals Together To Talk It Out After The Election

To Hide This Construction Site, There’s A Living Wall Instead Of Plywood

The 860 square foot blanket of plants will offer a much better view as this London building is renovated.

To Hide This Construction Site, There’s A Living Wall Instead Of Plywood

A Team Of Students Designed This Low-Cost Device To Prevent Cervical Cancer

The device costs $1,500. A similar device in the developed world now costs more than $20,000.

A Team Of Students Designed This Low-Cost Device To Prevent Cervical Cancer

This Startup Is Teaching Machines To Think, Reason, And Communicate Like Us

Maluuba’s AI can read a passage and then answer questions about it. Start counting the days till a robot takes your job.

This Startup Is Teaching Machines To Think, Reason, And Communicate Like Us

Good People Have More Sex

Science proves it: being altruistic attracts more partners.

Good People Have More Sex

Learn How Successful Social Impact Design Firms Work, With These Helpful Case Studies

Proactive Practices packages lessons from the work of Ideo.org, Proximity Designs, and Mass Design Group so that anyone can understand how to use design to solve global problems.

Learn How Successful Social Impact Design Firms Work, With These Helpful Case Studies

Impact

Climate scientists demand PR firms stop helping fossil fuel companies cover up their impact

Every driver in London soon might have to pay a fee any time they take a car trip

What could a global tax on wealth over $5 million pay for?

News

Problems ordering your free COVID test kits? Try this fix

Abigail Disney, other millionaires, slam Davos and urge governments to tax the rich

Activision CEO Bobby Kotick stands to walk away with a massive payday if he leaves the company

Co.Design

From failed medical devices to wrongful arrests, this is what happens when inclusive design takes a backseat

Former SpaceX engineers raised $50 million to build a Tesla for freight trains

After 149 years, Colgate’s toothpaste tubes are finally recyclable

Work Life

How to quiet your mind by doing a brain dump

Why it’s sometimes harder to get a job you’re ‘overqualified’ for

This counterintuitive trick can help you be more effective at work