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Culture
Picture Show: 500 Wrecks in the World's Largest Ship Cemetery
"Nouadhibou means 'where the jackals get fat.' It is also where ships go to die." So writes the photographer Jan Smith, who captured haunting...
Environment
Transparency: Which Fish to Eat?
After years of irresponsible fishing, there just aren't that many fish in the sea anymore. If we are going to help save the world's fish...
Design
Built to Last
As an inventor, Saul Griffith has spent a lot of time thinking about how to make useful things. Griffith developed innovative designs for...
Design
If You Build It, They Will Walk
Re-engineering slowness back into building design An idea quietly floated by New York City health commissioner Thomas Farley this summer might...
Lifestyle
Make Out-of-the-Ordinary Pancakes
This article is part of The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. Read more of the guide here. Step away from the...
Lifestyle
Flora and Fauna
The philosophy of slow food is based on an understanding of the provenance of our food, and the appreciation of each individual ingredient in...
Lifestyle
How to Cultivate Conscious Laziness
This article is part of The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. Read more of the guide here. People talk a big...
Environment
Klean Kanteen Contest Winner Announced
A few weeks ago we issued a call for designs for the GOOD Earth Day Klean Kanteen bottle. We were flooded with amazing submissions. In the end we...
Culture
The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down
The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down originally appeared in GOOD Issue 18: The Slow Issue. Use the table of contents below to...
Design
Make Yourself a Place to Escape
This article is part of The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. Read more of the guide here. Travelers to the...
Cities
Reading a City
How the built environment instructs us on how to move through it Greene Street Jane Jacobs wrote about the "ballet" of the street when...
Technology
Interview: The Handmade Toaster
This article is part of The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. Read more of the guide here. Thomas Thwaites, a...
Culture
The Slowest Jam
When the avant-garde composer John Cage noted that his eight-page 1985 composition "Organ²/ASLSP" should be played as slowly as possible, he might...
Culture
Read a Book
This article is part of The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. Read more of the guide...
Business
Slow Burn
By John Collins Rudolf Woody Tasch says we need to put the brakes on our investment portfolios. Don't worry, though: He still has a way for...
Design
Build a Backyard Dumpster Pool
This article is part of The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. Read more of the guide here. For most of us, a...
Culture
Metal for Meditation
What comes to mind when you think about heavy-metal music? Maybe it's burly dudes headbanging in unison or a violent mosh pit. But these...
Design
The Century Camera
See what develops over the next 100 years. The Century Camera appears in GOOD Issue 18, which is on newsstands now. While you can try printing...
