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... 
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... 
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:... 
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... 
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... 
My friends and I launched Glassbooth last summer with a mission of positively impacting the 2008 elections. A Democrat, a Republican, a Libertarian, and a socialist, we had all become equally dismayed at the state of political discourse in America. Bad ideas and falsities are everywhere. Could it be possible to use the... 
For Project 012 we asked you to think of ways your local public schools could be improved. David Shepard proposes we give teachers an extra pair of hands. Details after the jump.
"I recently finished my undergraduate degree in Economics and Urban Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, where I was very involved in education... 
The bumper sticker is one of the most ubiquitous and pithy forms of political expression. For the 2006 midterm elections we asked you to create an original bumper sticker on the subject of voting. Your submissions blew us away. So we're bringing Project 001 back for the 2008 presidential election. You're invited to get... 
For Project 012 we asked you for your ideas on improving local schools. Daniel sent us this chronicle from Victoria, British Columbia. Working on a city stormwater management project in Seattle, Daniel realized that adding natural features to a public space made it more inviting to children. That insight led to a community-wide effort to... 
For Project 012, we asked how you would improve the schools in your neighborhood. Tereza Coraggio sent this update from sunny Santa Cruz where she's working to bridge that age-old rift between public and private school kids:
"In Santa Cruz, CA, I'm networking together students from the public, private, and charter high schools to raise money... 
