Community Colleges Are the Nex...

Sep 5, 2017 by

Community Colleges Are the Next Frontier for Bold Architecture

[Translate] With major architecture firms getting involved, these formerly neglected institutions are having a design renaissance—and...

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Schools fail lead tests while ...

Aug 15, 2017 by

Schools fail lead tests while many states don’t require testing at all

[Translate] At Alice Birney Elementary School in San Diego, school officials placed signs above fountains to warn children to avoid...

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Watch Video: Brave New Films H...

Aug 9, 2017 by

Watch Video: Brave New Films Highlights Trump’s Inhumane Needless Deportation Policy

[Translate] Video A family man, businessman and community pillar removed from Hawaii. By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet Photo Credit:...

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QUEBEC’S VACANT CHURCH B...

Apr 2, 2017 by

[Translate]   By Ruby Irene Pratka, Shareable.NET | Report The novelist Mark Twain is said to have referred to Montreal as a city of...

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NEARLY 8,000 U.S. PUBLIC SCHOO...

Feb 20, 2017 by

NEARLY 8,000 U.S. PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE PLAGUED BY TOXIC AIR

[Translate]  GRIST El Marino students exercise next to the 405 freeway’s sound barrier.    Amy Walters / Reveal exhausted By...

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TOP 10 CHILDREN’S EDUCAT...

Dec 18, 2016 by

TOP 10 CHILDREN’S EDUCATIONAL SPACES OF 2016

[Translate]     see designboom’s TOP 10 stories archive:           throughout 2016, designboom has...

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KIDS AND ELDERLY PEOPLE IN THE...

Oct 16, 2016 by

KIDS AND ELDERLY PEOPLE IN THESE 9 STATES SPEND A SCARY AMOUNT OF TIME NEAR FRACKING

[Translate] Samantha Page Climate Reporter at @ThinkProgress. New report shows that 650,000 children nationwide spend their days...

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PEDAGOGICAL PROTOTYPE

Oct 7, 2016 by

PEDAGOGICAL PROTOTYPE

[Translate] Metropolis Magazine A well-designed transition space helped Riverdale Country School prepare for the innovations in its...

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The World’s Biggest Scho...

Sep 9, 2016 by

The World’s Biggest School Meal Program Is Keeping Local Farmers in Business

[Translate] Food Emphasizing local food under a radical policy of “zero hunger,” Brazil’s school lunch initiative helps small farmers...

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Monsanto’s Controversial...

Apr 27, 2016 by

Monsanto’s Controversial Glyphosate Herbicide Is Being Sprayed in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Portland

[Translate]   Environment The herbicide was classified as “probably carcinogenic to humans” by the World Health...

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U.S. WATER SYSTEMS REPEATEDLY ...

Apr 10, 2016 by

U.S. WATER SYSTEMS REPEATEDLY EXCEED FEDERAL STANDARD FOR LEAD

[Translate]   By RYAN J. FOLEY and MEGHAN HOYER   A.P. In this Wednesday, March 9, 2016 photo, city officials display an example...

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ALL EYES ON FLINT, BUT DRINKIN...

Mar 17, 2016 by

ALL EYES ON FLINT, BUT DRINKING WATER CRISIS STRETCHES NATIONWIDE

[Translate] 6 By Deirdre Fulton / Common Dreams   VIA TRUTHDIG     The Flint Water Plant tower in Michigan. (ehrlif /...

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DISASTER-PROOF SCHOOL DESIGN

Dec 27, 2015 by

DISASTER-PROOF SCHOOL DESIGN

[Translate] by Lucy Wang   INHABITAT New York-based SHoP Architects has unveiled plans to build 50 solar-powered, disaster-proof...

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A ‘LOST BOY’ BATTL...

Jul 12, 2015 by

A ‘LOST BOY’ BATTLES AK-47S WITH EDUCATION

[Translate] Paying It Forward By Adam B. Ellick and Jessica Naudziunas   Nicholas Kristof travels to South Sudan to revisit...

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Energy-positive portable class...

Apr 11, 2015 by

[Translate] by Lucy Wang, INHABITAT   San Francisco-based Anderson Anderson Architecture recently completed a prototype for an...

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