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Mars 500: Training Astronauts for a Manned Mission to Mars

What happens when you put five astronauts in a small ship for 500 days and fly them to Mars? This is the fourth part in an eight-part series on...

The GOOD 100: Wal-Mart's Sustainability Push

The Big Blue-green Monster: Wal-Mart is pushing us toward sustainability more than you could ever imagine. In 2005, Wal-Mart...

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The Year of Magical Thinking

What the health care debate and the credit crisis have in common Did you hear? Barrack Hussein Obama wants to pull the plug on your granny, so...

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BLDG a Better Architecture Blog

Geoff Manaugh's BLDG BLOG draws daring connections between architecture, science fiction, and pop culture-and draws an audience. If you've...

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The World’s Most Progressive Company? Wal-Mart, by a Mile

The Beast from Bentonville (and the world's largest private employer) announced that it's backing employer mandates for health care. That's not...

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Better Choices Through Technology

Can augmented reality technology finally make it easy to do the right thing? Last week was huge for a young technology called "augmented...

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Exploration Architecture

Michael Pawlyn's pioneering designs mimic nature's closed-loop systems to help us thrive in extreme resource scarcity. Most "green building"...

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The Atlas Obscura

Joshua Foer and Dylan Thuras are cataloging the world's weirdest places to foster a new age of curiosity. An enormous concrete dome that seals...

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Home Improvement

Why the problem of fixing our buildings is so vague-and what we can do about it We're hardwired to address the smaller problems that we can...

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Crop and Trade

Eleni Gabre-Madhin knows that efficient markets can save lives. In 1984, she was an undergrad studying economics at Cornell when a famine...

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The Food of a Younger Land

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Don't Buy Green

Trying to limit your environmental impact? Buying "eco-friendly" stuff doesn't help. Before attending trade shows flogging...

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A Tax, by Any Other Name

Let's rethink taxes so people feel good about chipping in. A carbon cap and trade program sounds great in theory. By giving companies...

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Bike Commuting and Living to Tell About It

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Convenience Is King

You can take the train to work, but your office is still a mile away from the station. Might as well drive, right? How we can solve the...

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A New Model for Better Homes

How one architecture start-up with a novel business plan is giving away plans for LEED-certified homes for free-and heading towards...

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A Primer: Can Algae Replace Gas?

The clean-energy promise of one of the planet's simplest organisms Can algae, that banal scourge of the swimming pool, fuel...

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