--- title: Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 10 description: The problem with judicial elections, how London's congestion pricing is saving lives, making libraries into start-up incubators and more. canonical: https://time.com/3738702/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-10/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-10T16:01:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:05:09.093Z article:section: Ideas og:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas og:description: The problem with judicial elections, libraries as start-up incubators and more og:url: https://time.com/3738702/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-10/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas twitter:description: The problem with judicial elections, libraries as start-up incubators and more twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 10 by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 10, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 10, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**How do we convince Americans that justice isn’t for sale — when in 39 states, it is?**](http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/judicial-elections-fundraising-115503.html#.VP7YeoF4rKA) By Sue Bell Cobb in Politico **2\.** [**It took pressure from customers and investors to make corporations environmentally sustainable. It’s time to do the same for gender equity.**](http://www.ssireview.org/blog/entry/gender%5Fequity%5Fand%5Fcorporate%5Fsustainability) By Marissa Wesely in Stanford Social Innovation Review **3\.** [**London’s congestion pricing plan is saving lives.**](http://www.wired.com/2015/03/londons-congestion-pricing-plan-saving-lives/) By Alex Davies in Wired **4\.** [**Libraries should be the next great start-up incubators.**](http://www.citylab.com/work/2013/02/why-libraries-should-be-next-great-startup-incubators/4733/) By Emily Badger in CityLab **5\.** [**Annual replanting has a devastating impact. Could perennial rice be the solution?**](http://e360.yale.edu/feature/perennial%5Frice%5Fin%5Fsearch%5Fof%5Fa%5Fgreener%5Fhardier%5Fstaple%5Fcrop/2853/) By Winifred Bird in Yale Environment 360  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3738702/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-10/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3738702/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-10/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 10","datePublished":"2015-03-10T16:01:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:05:09.093Z","description":"The problem with judicial elections, how London's congestion pricing is saving lives, making libraries into start-up incubators and more.","url":"https://time.com/3738702/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-10/","keywords":["Innovation","women","Environment","Agriculture","gender","alabama","london","Traffic","Accidents","Libraries","Start Ups","Corporations","rice","Sustainability"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3738702/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-10/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 10"}}]}] ```