Jealous of your friend who gets massages at work? Yeah, we are too. Turns out that was just the beginning. As the business world races to merge the lost luxuries of the dotcom boom with the responsibilities of the sustainability era, we construct the ideal workplace.
View Perfect, Inc.
What happens when oil-rich tycoons, real-estate magnates, and tech guys decide they care about the environment? Big money, new markets, and accusations of hypocrisy, of course.
Matthew Simmons
Was Got into the oil game by accident, when an acquaintance asked him to invest in a budding business drilling offshore...
GOOD brings you the executive summary of Who Moved My Cheese, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, and three other popular business books.
Who Moved My Cheese?
by Dr. Spencer Johnson
Who Moved My Cheese is a corporate fable detailing the dangers of getting trapped inside an over-developed metaphor. Your only hope...
Thanks to the Internet, information and anger can spread at the speed of light. Don’t like a certain company’s environmental policy? Not getting a good return on your investment? All it takes is a few well-chosen clicks of the mouse to find yourself at the head of a virtual mob. Here are a few guerilla campaigners—some working...
Why spend millions to scrub the carbon out of your fossil-fuel-based operation when a slick ad agency can whip up the same green buzz for a fraction of the price? During the last 10 years, as environmentalism has captured the public mind, numerous legacy industries have done just that. Here are some egregious green-talking...
The innovative clothing company Nau was supposed to transform the apparel industry. Instead, it tanked. So what went wrong, and what happens next?
Unfuck the world. Mark Galbraith remembers when he first heard the phrase. It was June, 2004. Galbraith was sitting in Typhoon, a pan-Asian restaurant at the Santa Monica airport...
In the 1990s, when the internet shook up the business world, companies of all sizes responded by adding extra-big windowed offices for their Chief Information Officers—not that anyone knew what a Chief Information Officer was yet. Now that environmental sustainability and social responsibility are household buzzwords, another...
Gary Hirshberg, the president, chairman, and CEO of Stonyfield Farm, has a better reason for doing business.
The landscape of sustainable business is filled with landmines. Questions like “Does offsetting carbon really matter?” “Is recycling a scam?” and “How do I know where my materials come from?” abound, while incentives...
A conversation with Jonathan Greenblatt and Jay Coen Gilbert
GOOD: There is a range of media options available to you and many that are consumed by business people. I’m glad you want to work with us.
GILBERT: GOOD has a unique voice and we believe it’s that voice that will give the B Corp community the...
Growing numbers of farmers, chefs, and consumers have been waging a gastronomic revolt. What we eat says everything about us, so don't think of your food as a commodity, think of it as a statement. Let's eat.
GOOD Magazine is about moving things forward, and we're here to celebrate progress wherever we see it come to life. This is the emerging sensibility in our world and that gets us fired up.
A diverse group of sharp and fun pieces that delve into culturally relevant issues and stories of the moment through investigative, photo, and new journalism.
This issue is about how our government works, how it works for us, and the people who work for it. Our government is for the people, but it is also by the people, and we salute the men and women who spend their days in service of our country.
At a time when Wall Street is buckling, the environment is eroding, and America is preparing for a historic election, we will ask: What is the nature of business? What is the role of commerce? What models can combine authenticity and effectiveness?
Floating cities, flying cars, and Spaceship Earth—Buckminster Fuller figured out how to save the planet 50 years ago. Stephanie Smith tells us why his legacy is more relevant than ever.
Sometimes, the best technology has to offer is a speedy processor. Other times, ones and zeroes are less effective than a hammer. Everything we need lies in the vast spectrum between high tech and low tech.
"I Heart America." Depending upon your perspective (or perhaps your zip code), that's either an ironic statement, full of doubt and self-loathing, or it's an earnestly patriotic one, imbued with the certainty of American infallibility. Neither perspective satisfies us.
Plan A is overrated. This issue is about the merits, excitement, quirkiness, and danger of pursuits that go in the opposite direction of what is expected.
A visual interpretation of the issue theme. Each issue, GOOD asks an artist or group to set the tone for the magazine with a visual interpretation of the issue theme.
If the United States is the last superpower of the imperialist era, then China is rapidly becoming the first of the information age. Our countries are inexorably linked, so let's learn about our Eastern neighbor.
In our fear about what will happen if every child doesn’t know the quadratic formula by heart, we’ve created a far more damning problem: We’ve taken all the fun out of learning.
Sometimes confronting problems straight on can simply be too daunting. Why not find another way? That's the basic premise behind culture jamming; finding a simpler, more insidious method of changing the world.
For nearly a century, architectural visionaries have been predicting that some day, people everywhere would live happily in prefabricated homes. It hasn’t happened yet, but they’re on to something.
We know midterm are elections are boring, or at least sound boring. OK, they're boring. But this year there's a chance something big and exciting may happen.
We love the possibility and the potential of media — that it can communicate to the world, break down barriers, open doors, and maybe even change things for the better.
Vacations are nice, but they’re not the same thing as traveling: wandering through marketplaces, sampling food of indeterminate origin, and, most important, meeting new people.
Thomas Jefferson once wrote, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." We say, "How about you just vote?" Here are 1,565 reasons to get to the polls.