A Personal Oas-is

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• Cities

  

  Personal Rapid Transit

  A year ago, we first started hearing news about Masdar City, the 50,000 person, zero-waste, zero-carbon, eco-city of the future, to be built in...

  by Andrew Price +

• Culture

  

  What Is a Person, Anyway?

  Humans, apes, dolphins, dogs, and other good country people. If you said, "a human being," you have a lot of company, but you've only scratched...

  by Mark Peters +

• Environment

  

  Are Dolphins "Non-human Persons"?

  Over at TreeHugger there's a story about scientists who are arguing that dolphins should qualify for moral rights as "non-human persons" because...

  by Andrew Price +

• Cities

  

  Meet Your Neighbors Without Seeming like a Crazy Person

  Just because delivering a Jell-O mold to welcome a newcomer to the block is creepy doesn’t mean you’re destined to live a lonely, anonymous...

  by GOOD 5

• Lifestyle

  

  Dealbreaker: She's a Dog Person

  Mary had a tremendous sense of humor, a dancer’s body, and an utterly devastating smile, but she was also an insufferable dog person.

  by Bob Purvis +

• Culture

  

  Personalization Is the New Curation

  Because all this information is only worth something if we say it is.

  by GOOD +

• GOOD Blog

  

  Bill Gates Gets Personal About Philanthropy

  When Warren Buffet donated 83 percent of his substantial net worth to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the things he encouraged Bill...

  by Zach Frechette +

• Technology

  

  The Puffin: NASA's Personal Flying Machine

  Apparently, NASA is exploring the possibility of making a 12-foot personal flying machine called Puffin. The video (below the jump) doesn't...

  by Andrew Price +

• Business

  

  Pass the Baton: A More Personal Kind of Recycling

  How do you recycle those old items that really meant something to you? Try Tokyo's new store Pass the Baton.

  by GOOD +

• Culture

  

  #30DaysofGOOD Challenge: 10. Feed a Homeless Person

  Each month, we challenge our community to do something that will improve the world around us—and our own lives. September's challenge? To connect.

  by Hillary Newman +

• GOOD Blog

  

  Heathrow Gets Personal Rapid Transit Pods

  We've been hearing about the potential of "personal rapid transit" systems for a while now. PRT, as it's called, is usually envisioned as a...

  by Andrew Price +

• GOOD Blog

  

  WaPo's Awesome (and Terrifying) Person of the Decade Bracketology

  Yikes. The person of the decade is either George W. Bush or Osama bin Laden. So says the The Washington Post, whose editors have created a...

  by Patrick James +

• Culture

  

  Talking to a Famous Person: Adam Gardner

  As the lead singer and guitarist for Guster, Adam Gardner witnessed firsthand the damaging effects of a concert tour. Stick around after the...

  by Hillary Newman, Alicia Capetillo 1

• Lifestyle

  

  Talking to a Famous Person: Roy Choi

  Once a rebellious scholar, Roy Choi is now known as the father of Los Angeles's taco truck revolution—though the Tupac-quoting, sometimes...

  by Hillary Newman, Alicia Capetillo 1

• News

  

  Bikes: Now with More Threat to Your Personal Freedoms

  The Denver Post reports on yet another indicator of big government's blatant disregard for civil liberties: bikes. Gubernatorial candidate Dan...

  by Patrick James 9

• Technology

  

  What the Ultra-Personalized Internet Is Hiding from You

  What was once an anonymous medium is now a tool for soliciting and analyzing our personal data. Here's why we should care.

  by Eli Pariser +

• Technology

  

  How Long Should Search Engines Hold onto Your Personal Data?

  Privacy advocates have been vying with search engines for a while now, trying to establish some basic guidelines about how search engines like...

  by Siobhan O'Connor +

• Education

  

  Do You Fit the Extraordinarily Creative Person Composite?

  David Brooks makes a compelling argument about why America's future will continue to be bright so long as we remain a creative melting pot.

  by Amanda M. Fairbanks +

• Culture

  

  Intermission: One Soldier's Personal DADT Repeal Celebration

  To mark the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, one soldier stationed abroad filmed himself calling his father to tell him he's gay.

  by Jillian Anthony +

• Culture

  

  The Personal Press: Can This Machine Save the Bookstore?

  From our winter issue, GOOD 025: The Next Big Thing

  by Hilary Greenbaum +