Yesterday Ikea surprised its 12,400 U.S. employees with brand new assemble-it-yourself bicycles.
Yesterday Ikea surprised its 12,400 U.S. employees with brand new assemble-it-yourself bicycles.

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GOOD Pictures: Go Outside
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From Tweet to Street: Anti-Poverty Campaign Takes Supporters' Messages to Camp David
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Pet Diaries: The Joint-Custody Dog Who Taught Me to Move On
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GOOD Maker Challenge: How Would You Use Storytelling to Improve your Community?
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How Cherokee Is Real Cherokee? Mixed-Race People Discuss Elizabeth Warren
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These German hackers seem to have developed a prototype of a bike lock that not only secures your bike, but also raises it above the street.

Send us a great bike photo and story and you could win up to $5,000 for a nonprofit of your choice.

The top 15 finalists have been chosen. Vote now for three bikers to receive a cash grant of up to $5k for their favorite bike charities.

Find out which bikers the GOOD community liked best! We've tallied the votes and are excited to announce which three stories earned your votes.

New York wants to launch the nation's largest bike-share without spending a dime of city money. They say new tech tools will let them earn money.
The old saying that "everyone talks about the weather but no one does anything about it" turns out not to be true in China. The latest issue of...
Over the past few years, movie producer (Revenge of the Nerds) and philanthropist Peter Samuelson became concerned by the increasing numbers of...
We're big fans of data and transparency, so we couldn't pass up mentioning that the 300-page Census Atlas of the United States is now available...
View Nichelle Narcisi's interpretation of Issue 013's theme in the 013 Graphic Statement.
My husband is a Dutchman who moved to America to be with me. We have experienced many things together over the last seven years that have made me...
This video (below the jump) investigates why one in seven people is malnourished, how food dependency affects the poor, and how we can make sure...

If we care about the future prospects of our nation's economy, we must embrace the wide range of degrees our system of higher education offers.

Two hundred business school students recently admitted to cheating on a midterm after listening to their professor's plea to come forward. Would you?
Interesting news coming from Detroit: Two official plans are being proposed to City Council to turn swaths of the city-we're talking acres upon...
A London investment house, Canopy Capital, has paid an undisclosed sum for the rights to the "services" of a million acres of untouched...
What are we going to get for suffering through this awful recession? More lawyers, apparently. Who are making out like bandits? Educational...

All of a sudden, a commentators from across the political spectrum agree on what we have to do next now that cap and trade is dead.

Each year city dwellers make up more of the world's population. What will happen to the rural areas they're leaving behind?

A new survey says that people find the tech industry to be the most trustworthy industry. Also, few have forgiven the financial services world.

A new report details just how wildly wealthy our freshman senators and congresspeople are.