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Social(ist) Impact Investing: Why Ecuador Invested $500,000 in a Brooklyn Startup
The next hip tea drink comes from the Amazon, funded by developing nation socialist venture capitalists.
Technology
In London, Riding the Underground Turns Into a Game
Commuting: not fun. Playings games: fun. A new app combines the two for Londoners, visualizing a path through the city
Business
Prominent Climate Change Skeptic Getting Paid by Oil, Coal Companies
In the great climate change debate, Patrick Michaels emerged as the skeptic with clout, a levelheaded doubter with the scientific credentials to...
Environment
Reinventing Fire: How to Get America Off Oil and Coal by 2050
The Rocky Mountain Institute's new book shows how existing technologies and ideas could get America off fossil fuels by 2050.
News
What a Mess: $6.6 Billion in Cash Presumed Lost in Iraq
As America's economy continues to flag, it might infuriate you to know that we're literally losing billions in a far-off desert.
News
Cash for Cash for Clunkers: Another $2 Billion
If you haven't heard, the popular "cash for clunkers" program got another $2 billion in funding this week. Numbers from the first 250,000 trades...
Environment
What Happens When You Leave a City in the Desert
Kolmanskop is a Namibian diamond mining town that used to have a population of over 1,000. See what happened when it was abandoned to the desert.
Environment
Cashing in on Disaster
Oil Spills Are Big BusinessAs oil continues to flow unabated from the ruptured Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico at what’s estimated...
Lifestyle
Why Reading About the Rapture Leaves a Bad Taste in Your Mouth
New research is exploring the link between moral disgust and sensory disgust.
Lifestyle
This Is Why You Don't Leave Cheese in the Car
We bought some cheese in New York, ate part of it, and then forgot about it until New Mexico. The car smells... fragrant.
Design
GOOD Design Daily: Japanese Stationery Cut in the Shape of Leaves
Inspired by ancient Japanese messaging traditions, Leaf Letter paper goods are cut in the shapes of various leaves.
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Leaving Your Kids to Play in a Vacant Lot Is Good Parenting?
The benefits of a feral, rough edge on urban childhood, particularly with the growing chatter around the rise of "Chinese parenting" and "tiger moms."
News
Wear a Hoodie If You Leave: A Night Above the Riots in London
From my window, we watched 30 policemen sprint down the road. The sound of their boots hitting the ground made my heart pound even harder.
Business
Cash for Clunkers Killing it in Germany
A couple weeks ago, one of our resident columnists Ben Jervey wrote about Cash For Clunkers programs starting in various locales around the...
Business
Would You Want to Live in a Cash-Free World?
When asked if they'd ditch bills for good, Canadians replied with a resounding "yes!" But for some, a cashless world is bad for business.
Business
Financial Fitness Task 23: Cash in Your Coins #30DaysofGOOD
You're leaving loose change everywhere!
Business
Disney and Others Rush to Cash in on SEAL Team Six
Sure it's outrageous that Disney wants to cash in on the Osama bin Laden killing, but there's a long history of trademarking war heroes.
Environment
More Oil Spilled in Nigeria Every Year than in the Gulf of Mexico
From Boing Boing comes this video, by Al Jazeera, which offers one look at a legal battle between a resident of the polluted Niger Delta and...
News
It's Happening: People Are Leaving Their Banks for Credit Unions (UPDATED)
People are getting fed up with the big banks, and credit unions are having the last laugh.
GOOD Blog
Underground Recreation
Urban centers are often littered with ostensibly public spaces that fall into desuetude because they're not well-planned or a city outgrows them....
