Ocean Motion

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on August 19, 2009 at 5:00 am

Not all hydroelectric power has to come from dams.

Today, about 20 percent of the world’s power is hydroelectric. Nearly all of that water-generated energy is made by forcing rivers to flow through dams. But rivers make up just a small percentage of the water in the world. The ocean, however, occupies two-thirds of the Earth’s surface and is constantly moving. That motion can spin turbines to create power, the ocean is full of potential…

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Wave Goodbye

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on August 13, 2009 at 6:00 am

Matt McClain, a veteran surfer and environmentalist, looks back at his first love.

I was initially drawn to the ocean by the lure of waves. My youth was spent waiting for those moments when storms would send thick gray slabs marching down the coast, stacked upon one another like corduroy, all the way to the horizon. When the waves came, my desire to ride them eclipsed everything else in my life. School, work, family, and relationships all…

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Hope Floats

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on August 12, 2009 at 11:30 am

The legendary scientist Sylvia Earle explains why we need to take care of the ocean that takes care of us.

Perplexed, I drove back and forth along a stretch of Highway 1 in the Florida Keys, looking for a place I had been to many times, a shallow bay of clear water bordered by red mangroves. With mask and flippers, I had prowled through channels to reach a reef where staghorn coral, lavender sea fans, and giant…

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Freight Escapes

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on August 11, 2009 at 12:36 pm

Hopping a freighter to travel the world isn’t just the stuff of fiction.

Freighter World Cruises offers sea travel, the old-fashioned way. You can hitch a ride to the fjords of Norway on a mail ship, or go around the world on a massive cargo vessel for as little as $90 a day. We talked to Joycene Deel, the company’s president.

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Joycene Deel: Flexible people. A lot of retired people. The departure…

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Ship in a Bottle

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on August 10, 2009 at 11:26 am

Don’t treat it like trash, and plastic becomes a lot more interesting.

In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl and a crew of five men crossed the Pacific Ocean on the Kon-Tiki, a craft comprised of natural materials and modeled after ancient Incan rafts. This summer, David de Rothschild, the banking scion and the founder of Adventure Ecology, is embarking on The Plastiki Expedition, for which he’s setting sail on a vessel comprised almost entirely of repurposed plastic bottles. The…

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Eureka!

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on August 7, 2009 at 6:00 am

Don’t call him a treasure hunter.

Greg Stemm heads Odyssey Marine Exploration, one of the most successful shipwreck-exploration companies in the world. In 2007, it discovered a shipwreck site that yielded a haul of coins that some estimates value at $500 million. The site’s location is a closely guarded secret, and what the name and nationality of the ship might have been is being debated in court: Odyssey calls the site the Black Swan.

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Depth Charge

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on August 6, 2009 at 5:45 am

Don Walsh has been deeper in the ocean than any other living person. He explains how shallow our oceanic knowledge really is.

In the late 1950s, a team of marine scientists approached the Navy with a bathyscaphe— a device capable of diving much deeper than any submersible then in existence—named the Trieste. With the goal of testing the limits of human ingenuity and furthering scientific knowledge of the ocean, Lieutenant Don Walsh and the scientist Jacques Piccard…

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The Evolution of the Squirt Gun

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on August 6, 2009 at 5:30 am

A visual history of the water gun, by Jason Polan. Click here for the full size image. For more content from GOOD’s Water issue, click the banner below.

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Lost City

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on August 4, 2009 at 6:00 am

Atlantis never sank—it just became Cuba.

The fabled city of Atlantis was first mentioned by Plato in two of his dialogues, the Timaeus and the Critias. Plato tells of an island nation outside the entrance to the Mediterranean that several thousand years earlier had attempted to invade Athens before being destroyed in a giant cataclysm. Today, the general consensus among classics scholars and archaeologists is that Plato’s story was purely fictional; no such city ever existed. While…

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Nothing Dune

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on August 3, 2009 at 11:06 am

In the book, futuristic suits let people live in the desert—but would they really work?

As you might guess, Frank Herbert’s seminal science-fiction novel Dune takes place in an arid environment. In fact, the fictional planet Arrakis is so strapped for water that the people who inhabit its open deserts wear elaborate full-body water-reclamation systems, called stillsuits, which keep them hydrated and cool. With a well-tuned stillsuit you would lose only a thimbleful of water a day,…

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About The Water Issue

We Suck at This: How to make the most of the water we have (it’s all we get).

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All You Can Eat ( 9 Articles)

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.

Big Ideas! ( 29 Articles)

Constantly reaching slightly beyond our grasp is what steers us to the best ideas, and leaves us ready to face the yet-unknown challenges of tomorrow.

Change is Good ( 3 Articles)

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.

Design Solutions ( 11 Articles)

In this issue you'll discover that design is a tool with vast utility. There are problems everywhere. It's time to design solutions.

Features ( 92 Articles)

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.

For the People ( 4 Articles)

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.

GOOD Business ( 11 Articles)

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?

Guide to Buckminster Fuller ( 6 Articles)

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.

Guide to Shadowy Organizations ( 8 Articles)

Freemasons, Bilderberg, Skull and Bones—what do they actually do? Matt Schwartz peels back the curtains of the world's top secret societies.

High Tech / Low Tech ( 6 Articles)

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 ( 5 Articles)

"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.

Look ( 122 Articles)

A bold visual tour of creative ideas around the world.

Marketplace ( 55 Articles)

Information on our consumer culture.

Picture Show ( 38 Articles)

In which we bring you compelling pictures of interesting things.

Not all hydroelectric power has to come from dams.

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Matt McClain, a veteran surfer and environmentalist, looks back at his first love.

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Hopping a freighter to travel the world isn’t just the stuff of fiction.

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All You Can Eat ( 9 Articles)

Big Ideas! ( 29 Articles)

Change is Good ( 3 Articles)

Design Solutions ( 11 Articles)

Features ( 92 Articles)

For the People ( 4 Articles)

GOOD Business ( 11 Articles)

Guide to Buckminster Fuller ( 6 Articles)

Guide to Shadowy Organizations ( 8 Articles)

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