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• Environment

  

  Google Puts $15 Million Toward Predicting and Preventing Emerging Threats

  On the Official google.org Blog yesterday, the search engine's philanthropic arm revealed the initial partners of its global health...

  by Nikhil Swaminathan

• Environment

  

  Google Invests $38.8 Million in North Dakota Wind Farms

  Yesterday, Google announced that it had invested a hefty sum, $38.8 million, in a wind farm in the North Dakota plains. From the Google blog: On...

  by Andrew Price

• Technology

  

  Google Software to Wipe Deforestation Off the Google Map

  Google.org has unleashed new software to track and monitor deforestation, using past, present, and future satellite models to show the changes in...

  by Patrick James

• Lifestyle

  

  Heal Thyself: Why I Promised to Donate My Kidney to a Stranger

  I've been waiting three years to donate a kidney to a stranger. That's a long time to stay faithful to an offer I made eight months out of college.

  by Mike Riggs, Dylan C. Lathrop

• Environment

  

  How (and Why) to Donate Your Hair to the Gulf

  Those sausage-looking things are actually hairbooms: pantyhose stuffed with human hair that can be tossed into the water to contain an oil spill....

  by Siobhan O'Connor

• Education

  

  Help Students Fold One Million Origami Cranes and Raise $1 Million for Japan

  Here's how to help a grassroots student effort to fold one million paper cranes and raise $1,000,000 for Japanese relief efforts.

  by Liz Dwyer

• News

  

  Transparency: HMO Donations to the U.S. Senate

  Health care reform is currently a major issue before the U.S. Congress. Health insurance providers-who stand to become more regulated or have...

  by GOOD, Michael Newhouse

• Business

  

  The Un-Daily Deal Site That Wants You to Donate for Discounts

  The Mutual is a socially conscious business that mixes self-interest and eco-philanthropy.

  by Alex Goldmark

• Environment

  

  Google Reduces Carbon Use So We Don't Have to Reduce Google Use

  No one’s arguing that we should cut back on internet searches, in part because Google doing a good job decreasing its data centers' energy use.

  by Sarah Laskow

• Culture

  

  Keith Olbermann Suspended by MSNBC for Donating to Democrats

  Olbermann gets suspended for funding political candidates. Why is on-air support for candidates OK, but not financial support? For a few reasons.

  by Alex Goldmark

• Education

  

  Texas to Layoff 100,000 Teachers While Giving Millions to Formula One Racing

  The Lone Star State plans to fund a race track instead of schools. Really.

  by Liz Dwyer

• Education

  

  Apple's Genius Idea: Donating Your Old iPad to Teach For America Classrooms

  iPads are extremely useful educational tools, so it's nice that Apple is helping to funnel used first-generation models to schools that need them.

  by Liz Dwyer

• Business

  

  GOOD Partners with Pepsi to Give Away $20 Million in Grants to Fund Great Ideas

  We here at GOOD are thrilled to announce our involvement in an amazing new venture with Pepsi. The Pepsi Refresh Project...

  by GOOD

• Education

  

  People Are Awesome: Fifth Grader Donates $300 Life Savings to Stop Teacher Layoffs

  Elementary school student Jocelyn Lam emptied her piggy bank to save pink slipped teachers. Now she's inspired an entire community to do the same.

  by Liz Dwyer

• News

  

  People Are Awesome: Hundreds Donate to Buy America's Tallest Man Some Shoes

  America's closest thing to a giant is receiving an answer to his prayer for a comfy pair of shoes.

  by Cord Jefferson

• Business

  

  A Better BOGO: Are Books a More Effective Charity Than Shoes?

  Better World Books is linking used book sales to charity causes with the buy one, give one model.

  by Alex Goldmark

• Culture

  

  Is Google+ a Sausage Party? Google Says No Way

  A statistic is floating around that 88 percent of Google+ users are male. Google says it's a lie.

  by Nona Willis Aronowitz

• Culture

  

  But Who Is Google's Person of the Year?

  Time got its say on the man of the hour, but whom the world is actually talking about is quite a bit different.

  by Cord Jefferson

• News

  

  Coming Soon: A Million Places to Charge Your Car

  A new report predicts America will have nearly 1 million electric car charge points by 2015.

  by Andrew Price

• Culture

  

  We Spent Half a Million Dollars to Fly Planes Over the Super Bowl

  The Navy spent almost $500,000 in taxpayer money to fly jets over this year's Super Bowl. It only took them three seconds.

  by Cord Jefferson