Boatcar, Traveling Legs, and Other Innovations

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• Technology

  

  Part 5: Legs With Brains

  Robots are assisting soldiers both on the battlefield and off. Some 30,000 men and women have lost limbs over the course of the conflict in...

  by GOOD, Rus Garofalo, Lindsay Utz, Justin Fines, Morgan Currie, Labour, Dean Fleischer-Camp, David Axe, Andrew Bouvé +

• Design

  

  Levi's Jeans Retire from Legs to Walls

  Earlier today, we posted about a pavilion built from outdated Speedos. Last week, Cool Hunting spotlighted a similar effort on the part of Levi...

  by Sasha Jones 1

• Culture

  

  People Are Awesome: Skateboarder with No Legs (Video)

  Italo Romano is a skateboarder who has no legs. This video of him skating is absolutely inspirational.

  by Patrick James +

• Lifestyle

  

  Dietary Supplements: Supermarket Signage Fails, Insect Legs, and More

  In today's daily round-up of what we're reading at GOOD Food HQ, we're talking food safety, ADHD, and musical coffee. Enjoy!

  by Nicola Twilley +

• Culture

  

  Intermission: Tiny Horse Gets Prosthetic Leg, Is Super Happy

  Staff at his Texas rescue center home feared they would have to euthanize the miniature horse, and cried when they first saw him gallop.

  by Nicola Twilley +

• Culture

  

  Paper-Feet: Sustainable Sandals that Don't Cost an Arm or a Leg

  The trend of barely-more-than-barefoot shoes has involved some cognitive dissonance: They haven't tended to be priced that way. For Jimmy Tomczak,...

  by Theo Schell-Lambert 4

• Business

  

  Five of the Most Exciting Innovators Shaking Up Global Development

  These five organizations are on to something. See how they are making lives better in sustainable, scalable and social important ways.

  by Raj Kumar +

• Business

  

  The World's Top 40 Development Innovators : Local, Tech Savvy May Be Key to Improving Aid

  Thousands of aid workers and development professionals picked the 40 most innovative groups in their field. See who they left out.

  by Alex Goldmark +

• Design

  

  Travel Sketches

  A collection of creative reflections on travel from GOOD's contributing writers, designers, and photographers.

  by GOOD +

• Issue 011

  

  The Travel Issue

  Frozen drinks with little umbrellas have their place-usually involving a white-sand beach. But when inveterate wanderer Hans Christian...

  by GOOD +

• Issue 011

  

  The Ethics of Travel Writing

  A seasoned travel writer makes sense of the Lonely Planet scandal.

  by Roger Norum 1

• Environment

  

  How to Travel Right

  It’s one of the toughest dilemmas for any environmentally-minded, adventurous soul: We all love to travel, but worry about our carbon emissions...

  by Ben Jervey 4

• Education

  

  City Year: Time Travel

  City Year corps members based in Los Angeles write about their experiences.I often wish I could time travel. Not so much to visit distant lands...

  by Jenelle Thomson +

• News

  

  Infographic: International Travel Restrictions

  Citizens of countries that are unpopular on the global stage often face great challenges in traveling abroad.

  by Column Five Media +

• Lifestyle

  

  Cocktails for Weary Holiday Travelers

  Odds are, we’ll need a drink as soon as we land.

  by Ken Walczak +

• Issue 011

  

  Tony Wheeler on Nontraditional Travel Destinations

  The Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler tells us why it's the edgy places with government advisories that he finds most interesting.

  by Tony Wheeler +

• Environment

  

  Can This Vessel Travel 11,000 Miles?

  David de Rothschild sure hopes so. In April, his crew will attempt to sail from San Francisco to Sydney on a boat constructed of more than...

  by Patrick James +

• GOOD Blog

  

  The Sun-powered Boat that's Going to Travel Around the Whole World

  A pair of Europeans are planning to sail around the world in a solar-powered boat, and if they're successful, they'll be the first to pull it off....

  by Siobhan O'Connor +

• Environment

  

  Transparency: How Far Your Produce Travels

  Buying fruits and vegetables from local farmers' markets not only supports local agriculture, but also saves countless pounds of carbon...

  by GOOD, Naz Sahin, Serifcan Ozcan 1

• Technology

  

  Travel the Trans-Siberian Railway from Home

  Google has put together a remarkable "virtual journey" that allows you to take the historic Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Vladivostok. You...

  by Andrew Price +