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See the Klean Kanteen Contest Finalists

see-the-klean-kanteen-contest-finalists Here are the 10 finalists in our contest for designs for the Klean Kanteen GOOD Earth Day Bottles. Check them out below and vote for your favorite design here. From Henry Balanay: From Nancy Liang: From Nitin Garg: From Andy...
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Project: Design an Everyday Solution to an Extraordinary Problem

project-design-an-everyday-solution-to-an-extraordinary-problem At this point we have a pretty good list of the problems that exist in the world, and a decent-but-growing list of the causes. What we're lacking is a list of solutions. Some would say the pressure is on the scientists, politicians, and business leaders of the world to develop those solutions. But why not you? You know that riding a bike is...
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Contest: Design a Klean Kanteen Water Bottle

contest-design-a-klean-kanteen-water-bottle We're big fans of metal water bottles. They help reduce plastic waste, encourage people to use free public water sources, and, of course, keep us hydrated. Now, in honor of Earth Day, we're inviting you to design a Klean Kanteen Earth Day Bottle for GOOD. UPDATE: We've selected finalists and opened voting...
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GOOD's Islands for Islands Project Winner Announced

good-s-islands-for-islands-project-winner-announced For our Islands for Islands Project, we asked GOOD readers to redesign a traffic island in their city. The prize: A trip to the tropical island of Dominica. The submissions we received ranged from the practical to the fanciful, the obviously doable to the wildly ambitious. All were impressive. While we could only pick one winner, here are a...
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Project: Create a Time Capsule

project-create-a-time-capsule The father of the modern time capsule was Dr. Thornwell Jacobs, the president of Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, who came up with the idea of the Crypt of Civilization—a sealed chamber at Oglethorpe—in 1936. The chamber was not to be opened until the year 8113. Three years later, the Westinghouse Company buried a...
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Project: Islands for Islands

project-islands-for-islands Fix a traffic island in your city and we’ll send you to an island in the Caribbean. For this project we’re asking you to pick an ugly traffic island in your city and spruce it up—either in Photoshop or in reality. Add a bench or a sculpture, plant some flowers, whatever you can think of to make that neglected pedestrian junkspace more...
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Project: Message in a Bottle

project-message-in-a-bottle   In 1977, a mere two years before Sting penned his classic hit, the folks at NASA were busy preparing their own intergalactic “message in a bottle.” The bottle, in this case, was the Voyager spacecraft, a vessel on a theoretically endless mission to explore the outer reaches of space. The message: a golden record (the most...
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Project: Design a Livable Street

project-design-a-livable-street America's streets leave a lot to be desired. As Carly Clark and Aaron Naparstek write in the latest issue of GOOD, “For the most part, [traffic engineers] viewed the city from behind a windshield and saw the street as a problem to be solved for automobiles. The result is the America city that most of us know today:...
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Project 014: Nominees, Please

project-014-nominees-please UPDATE: Nominations are closed. We still have a bunch of submissions in our inbox, though, so if you sent one in and don’t see it on the list yet, just be patient. Sometimes, a hero’s work goes without praise. But here at GOOD, we think that’s a shame. We think that the people who are making strides toward...
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Project: Intercontinental Breakfast

project-intercontinental-breakfast What do you eat in the morning? Cheerios? Nutella on toast? Haggis? Your breakfast says a lot about you. Or at least that's the assumption behind our new project, "Intercontinental Breakfast." We're asking readers from around the globe to send us pictures of their morning meals. Get the details and see all the contributions at...
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