Director of Global Development

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• Issue 011

  

  The Director's Director

  Hal Ashby's movies captured a messy, post-1960s America in alternately hilarious and poignant ways. Here, Wes Anderson, Judd Apatow, Alexander...

  by Jennifer Wachtell, GOOD

• Technology

  

  District 9's Director on What Aliens Will Look Like

  Neill Blomkamp, the director of the rather spectacular and Oscar-nominated District 9, spoke at the Vancouver TedX about what aliens will really...

  by Morgan Clendaniel

• Cities

  

  What Would You Ask L.A.'s New Planning Director?

  Christopher Hawthorne will sit down with the city's new planning director, Michael LoGrande, on Wednesday night. What would you want to ask him?

  by Alissa Walker

• Business

  

  Why the American Dream Doesn't Work in Developing Countries

  As India and other countries develop, they're trying to be more American and individualistic. But that's a big mistake.

  by Beyond Profit

• Lifestyle

  

  Global Warming Isn't Affecting Your Food Supply. At Least Not Yet.

  The heat's not on North America's food supply yet. But that's no excuse to ignore the pressing problem.

  by Peter Smith

• 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

• Culture

  

  Yes Yes Y'all: A Musical Celebration from Guest Art Director Nessim Higson

  While looking through the articles in our New Orleans issue, you've likely had the experience of having your eyes fly out of your skull and...

  by Patrick James

• Environment

  

  Positive Developments Roundup

  While poking around the internet, we noticed three unexpected items of good news. We thought we'd pass them along in case you needed some.-New...

  by Andrew Price

• News

  

  The U.S. Needs a Department of Development

  Foreign assistance isn't only a moral gesture, it's also essential to our national security. The United States spends more than $20 billion a...

  by Michael Kleinman

• Business

  

  The GOOD 100: For-Profit Development Work

  The Business of Changing the World By Evan Thomas, as told to GOOD Over the past 50 years, the developed West has spent $2.3 trillion on...

  by GOOD

• Business

  

  Millennium Development Goals: A Primer

  So how are we doing on those ambitious Millennium Development Goals? It's a mixed bag.

  by Alex Goldmark

• Business

  

  Real Estate Development for the Creative Set

  With all the money that was flooding into the housing market up until a year ago (and which is slowly trickling back), how come so much of it went...

  by GOOD

• Education

  

  India Develops $35 Tablet for Its Schools

  India may have just introduced a new threat to both the One Laptop Per Child's $100 XO Laptop and Apple's iPad: a $35 touchscreen tablet PC...

  by Nikhil Swaminathan

• Technology

  

  MIT Develops Oil-Cleaning Robot Army

  It looks like a new oil-eating microbe has been helping to clean up the Deepwater Horizon mess, but if it's not around next time there's a...

  by Andrew Price

• Education

  

  Wanted: Agents of Change in the Developing World

  A new initiative puts people in developing countries in charge of their lives and prepares students to be change agents.

  by Phil Weilerstein

• News

  

  Infographic: Does America Have "Developing States"?

  So what happens when we apply the Human Development Index to the United States?

  by Andrew Price

• Environment

  

  Sustainable Development Makes Housing Affordable

  Rent isn’t the only variable that determines how affordable a particular home is. Access to transit and amenities like groceries matters, too.

  by Sarah Laskow

• News

  

  The GOOD 100: Women Are the Key to Development

  More than Just Aid In the ongoing effort to help lift people out of poverty, the role of women and girls is taking center stage. By Lesley...

  by GOOD

• GOOD Blog

  

  The Oil Spill, Visualized with the Unreal Development Kit

  This video simulates the collapse of a 15,000-foot tower of 25,000 barrels of oil using the Unreal Development Kit, a video game platform. It...

  by Andrew Price

• Design

  

  Dockside Green: Smart Development in Victoria

  Dockside Green, a 15-acre mixed use development in Victoria, British Columbia, looks like an example of the kind of building we need. The...

  by Andrew Price