GOOD is a collaboration of individuals, businesses, and nonprofits pushing the world forward. Get involved.
Join GOOD

GOOD is here to help people live well and do good.

3

The GOOD 100: Building Trains in Detroit

the-good-100-building-trains-in-detroit Back on the Train Gang By Michael Dukakis. Dukakis is a former governor of Massachusetts and served on Amtrak’s board of directors. He thinks we need to use Detroit factories to manufacture trains. After years of delay, during which both Europe and Asia enjoyed the benefits of modern trains that run at speeds of 200 miles...
2

The GOOD 100: Cash for Clunkers

the-good-100-cash-for-clunkers In July, America’s “Cash for Clunkers” program became a front-page news story. Championed by environmental groups, progressive think tanks, and the auto industry, the program, which gave consumers up to $4,500 when they exchanged an old gas guzzler for a new, fuel-efficient car, proved to be so popular that it exhausted its...
0

The GOOD 100: Big Brands Bet on Electric

the-good-100-big-brands-bet-on-electric Leading the Charge A fleet of electric vehicles may seem like a remote reality right now, but if the corporate world is betting right, it is closer than we think. Besides the various car companies now falling over themselves to get electric cars into the market, other major American corporations are starting to get ready for...
12

The GOOD 100: Bikes

the-good-100-bikes We Want to Ride Our Bicycles… Bikes have been around for about a century and a half, and they’re still awesome. Because we dig the calluses on the palms of our hands. Because we actually kind of like when our legs feel like Jell-O. Because we crave the brisk wind on our cheeks. Because we recall with...
3

The GOOD 100: Electric Cars

the-good-100-electric-cars Tesla As evidenced by the flashy concept renderings all over the internet, every established car company out there, from Ford to Rolls-Royce, has a plug-in vehicle “in development.” But the $109,000 Tesla Roadster is still the only highway-capable plug-in you can actually buy, fully assembled, in America. In July, Tesla...
4

The GOOD 100: Ray Lahood

the-good-100-ray-lahood The Hottest Thing on Wheels (or Rails) As the new transportation secretary, Ray LaHood has been tasked with remaking our transportation infrastructure into one that focuses more on sustainability than widening highways. It’s a tall order but, so far, we’re impressed with his approach. 1. For supporting high-speed...
0

The GOOD 100: Ending the War on Drugs

the-good-100-ending-the-war-on-drugs Finding a Better Way to Fight It’s pretty much unanimous, at this point: The war on drugs has sucked us all down with it. Each year it accounts for more than a million arrests and costs the United States tens of billions of dollars. The impact of the war’s failed policies can be seen everywhere: There are...
16

The GOOD 100: Cowpooling

the-good-100-cowpooling Share Your Meat with All Your Friends Because buying in bulk is always better­­ by Tamar Adler Adler is the director of the Bay Area Meat CSA and Meatshare.org, which help hungry people buy wholesale meat directly from local farmers. Optimizing a whole animal’s value by buying all of its cuts isn’t...
3

The GOOD 100: Fewer Streets

the-good-100-fewer-streets Blockade Parade How closing streets can actually reduce traffic As the city of Vancouver prepared to convert a car lane on the busy Burrard Bridge into a bike path last summer, some imagined impending anarchy. At the time, one cabbie, Jatinder Nijjar, predicted, “It is going to be chaos.” In fact, the...
7

The GOOD 100: The Great Electric Vehicle Race

the-good-100-the-great-electric-vehicle-race Portland vs. San Francisco Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco seem locked in an ongoing battle to become the left coast’s left-most city. To stoke the competition, the blog Gas2.0 has launched a website to track each city’s progress toward building an infrastructure for electric cars. We asked the mayors of...
GOOD Magazine