- December 11, 2006 • 1:37 pm PST
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
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Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
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What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
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As tax day draws inexorably closer and closer, people become more and more focused on getting the most out of their returns. For those who have...
If you're looking to trick out your home with the greenest products on the market, you could do a lot worse than IceStone. Their countertops...
Here's an interesting chart purporting to show the "Best Jobs in America." Predictably, lots of jobs in information technology and medical...
In his 2010 TED talk, the branding expert Alan Siegel argues we have to simplify legal documents. Here's his proposal for a simplified credit card...

Microlending is all the rage, especially since microlending pioneer Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize last year. Today, Slate examines...
A graphic to help make sense of General Electric's size and scope.
The Tata Nano, the incredibly cheap car that might destroy the world if Indian people buy and drive it en masse, went on sale recently. How is it...
Popularized in the 1970s, the practice of microcredit-giving out small loans to borrowers to encourage entrepeneurship-has offered much-needed...
A $1 national increase in the price of gas results in a 10 percent decrease in national obesity rates.
Let's say you see a product on the shelf that says "natural," or "organic," or "biodegradable" on the label. Would you then believe that the...
MBA OK Business school isn't just for Wall Street hopefuls anymore. That is, if Jill Kickul has anything to say about...
In honor of the rush of Christmas shopping most people are trying to cram in this week, let's take a stroll back through the GOOD archives to...
City 70/20/10 This is a riff on Google's agreement with employees to maximize each individual’s effectiveness. "In order to always develop...
Goldman Sachs, which is about to announce enormous bonuses for its employees despite the fact that most of the rest of the country is still in the...
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission gets to work today, interrogating CEOs, academics, and economists to find out why our financial system...
The New York Times is going to start charging again for access to its articles online. This time it's what's called a "metered model." From...
Everybody's got something that helps get them through the day: that first cup of coffee, a trip to the gym, a killer playlist. What about the...
The Atlantic's Don Peck predicts that the future of America will continue to be jobless, which will transform the culture of our nation. If it...
Vodafone has made what it's describing as the "world's cheapest phone." The Vodafone 150 will sell for less than $15. From the press...
