Good Business: Facts

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• Business

  

  GOOD Business: Greyston Bakery

  How good can one brownie be? Greyston Bakery's brownies are delicious, sure, but they also help to alleviate poverty within the community of...

  by MacKenzie Fegan, Fred Sargolini, Gillian Arthur, Lindsay Utz, MacKenzie Fegan, V Gallo, Fogelson-Lubliner, Nick Bentgen, Audio Dregs Recordings, Stefan Nadelman 1

• Business

  

  GOOD Business: Comet Skateboards

  Moving to a new town can be pretty hard. But if, like Comet Skateboards, one of the founding principles of your company is community...

  by MacKenzie Fegan, Fred Sargolini, Jacob Cox, Lindsay Utz, Stefan Nadelman, Fogelson-Lubliner, V Gallo, Jeffrey Peixoto, Micah Bloomberg, MacKenzie Fegan, VICE Music, Jody L +

• Business

  

  Tell Us What Makes a Good Business

  We're launching the GOOD Company Project this month—tell us which medium-sized businesses are worth checking out.

  by GOOD +

• GOOD Blog

  

  Fifth Grade Fact Check

  An 11-year-old from Michigan identified a labeling faux pas at the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History, providing empirical evidence for the...

  by Daniel Riley 1

• Environment

  

  Climategate, Fact Checked

  This amazing video shows the long, arduous process of fact-checking reporter Kate Sheppard's new feature on the Climategate scandal.

  by Ben Jervey +

• News

  

  Fast Facts About Speeding Tickets

  And here's an interesting collection of facts about speeding tickets from Autoblog:Do you think the number of tickets goes up when economic growth...

  by Andrew Price 6

• Cities

  

  New Orleans: Quick Facts

  GOOD's Guide to NOLA Basics originally appeared in GOOD Magazine's New Orleans Issue. Read more from the magazine here. Population ...

  by GOOD 1

• Lifestyle

  

  Five Shocking Facts About What Drinking Does to Your Body

  by Alexandra Spunt, Brianna Harden +

• Lifestyle

  

  Infographic: Heart Disease, Myth Vs. Facts

  Think heart disease is a man's disease? It actually affects women more than men. That's just one of the myths debunked in this GOOD infographic.

  by GOOD, Vance Wellenstein +

• Environment

  

  Michael Pollan's Vegan-in-a-Hummer Quip Lacks Facts

  You may have heard about this eminently quotable nugget that passed from Michael Pollan's lips at this year's Pop!Tech conference: "A vegan in a...

  by Zach Frechette 1

• Lifestyle

  

  Video Fact Check: McDonald's Hamburgers Don't Age

  Back in August we discovered that McDonald's hamburgers don't age. In the following video, we learn what really happens when they're left out.

  by Patrick James +

• Lifestyle

  

  Fact Checking McDonald's Non-Aging Burgers: This Time for Real

  J. Kenji Lopez-Alt applies some actual scientific method to determine whether, how, and why McDonald's burgers don't age.

  by Patrick James +

• News

  

  The Two Births of Kim Jong Il: Myth vs Fact

  Kim Jong Il is a mysterious dictator. He's alleged to have uttered only one sentence in public, and keeps his hermit kingdom under a veil of...

  by GOOD, Kelly Che, Morgan Currie, Lindsay Utz, Sublime Frequencies, James Sumner +

• Design

  

  Fact and Fiction (and How to Tell the Difference) in Data Visualization

    This post is a response to "How Might We Visualize Data in More Effective and Inspiring Ways?" Read more of the conversation...

  by Sara Olsen, Robert Bailey +

• News

  

  Landline-Only Polls Do, in Fact, Have a Republican Bias

  Adding cell phones to a poll gives you a five point swing toward the Democratic candidate.

  by Morgan Clendaniel +

• Business

  

  Freelancers, Alone No More: Coworking Is Going Big Business

  There's a seismic shift in how large companies they are envisioning their own internal real estate. That shift is toward mobility.

  by Dan Haugen +

• News

  

  Social Security's 72,000 Checks to Dead People—Fact Checked

  Why the big news about the Social Security checks sent to the dead and imprisoned isn't really big news at all.

  by Siobhan O'Connor +

• Lifestyle

  

  Infographic: Stroke, a Silent Killer of Women

  You may not be aware that stroke kills as many women as breast cancer does each year. Learn this and other facts about this deadly disease.

  by GOOD, Justin McKinley +

• GOOD Blog

  

  Cut-throat Business

  A new controversial procedure for organ donation has doctors taking out organs minutes after a patient's heart stops, before the brain is dead....

  by Rudy Adler +

• Environment

  

  Business Of Green

  Various people are writing about the New York Times series The Business of Green, which covers environmental trends and battles.Check out the...

  by Andrew Price +