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• News

  

  Washington, D.C.'s Beautiful Bag Tax

  Washington D.C. instituted a 5-cent tax on disposable bags-both paper and plastic-on New Year's Day. Now, when you go to the grocery store in the...

  by Andrew Price +

• Environment

  

  Our 10 Favorite Innovations for Reducing Plastic Consumer Waste

  The practice of individually packaging consumer products may not have originated in the 20th Century, but that's certainly when it was perfected;...

  by Patrick James 1

• Lifestyle

  

  London's Unpackaged Grocery Shop: No Packaging Whatsoever

  I can't fathom a better way to reduce waste created by plastic bags and other packaging than by eschewing the stuff altogether, which is precisely...

  by Patrick James 4

• Environment

  

  GOOD Instructions: How to Travel Without Ruining the Planet

  For many of us, travel is a time to let go, unwind, indulge, or explore. All good things, but that doesn't have to mean a vacation from your...

  by Milissa Skoro +

• Environment

  

  Mister Trash Can

  While carbon emissions may be the current cause célèbre of the environmental movement, let's not forget the more tangible waste products we...

  by GOOD, Chad Colby, Garrett Morin, MacKenzie Fegan, Rus Garofalo, Lindsay Utz, Audio Dregs Recordings, Morgan Currie +

• Lifestyle

  

  The United States Is a Food Wasteland

  We throw away enough food to feed the entire world. A new book tries to find a solution. When it comes to food, Americans are the undisputed...

  by Peter Smith +

• Environment

  

  Take-out Without

  TakeOutWithOut is a new online campaign to get restaurants to reduce their waste. They have three principles they're trying to promote: They want...

  by Andrew Price +

• Environment

  

  Behold the Portable Carbon-filter Water Bottle

  Someone has finally invented a reusable carbon-filter water bottle. And no, they haven't messed it up with toxic BPA-laced plastics. This thing,...

  by Siobhan O'Connor 1

• Environment

  

  Baby Steps to Producing Less Garbage: The Sigg (or Other Waterbottle)

  This is not a new idea here, but it's been fairly revolutionary for me, so I thought I'd share: I emerged from this New Year's break with the...

  by Casey Caplowe +

• Business

  

  E-Waste PSA: High-tech Trash

  If the transition from 386 to 486 resonates loudly in your heart strings, then you have some idea of how far we've come the past fifteen years...

  by GOOD, Ian Lynam, Patrick James, Morgan Currie +

• Environment

  

  Results from MIT's Trash Tracking Experiment

  Back in July, researchers at MIT's SENSEable City lab launched an experiment: They'd tag thousands of pieces of trash in New York and Seattle...

  by Andrew Price +

• Lifestyle

  

  Trayless Tuesdays

  There is a new movement taking hold at colleges and universities across the nation.  It's a movement that aims to conserve water, reduce food...

  by Mother Nature Network 1

• Environment

  

  How to Make an American Quilt (out of Plastic)

  Leave No Plastic Behind seems to have successfully transformed the art of quilting from grandma's favorite pastime to a funky environmental...

  by Alicia Capetillo 3

• Environment

  

  Braiding Plastic: A Brazilian Firm Turns Plastic Waste into Rope

  A firm in Brazil is taking plastic bottles out of landfills and repurposing them as high quality rope. According to the Arteplas Web site, the...

  by Alicia Capetillo 2

• Design

  

  How Americans Commute to Work

  Here's a great infographic from Infrastructurist. The information is from the 2008 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey. I'd be...

  by Andrew Price +

• Environment

  

  Nike Teams to Wear Recycled Plastic Bottle-based Jerseys in World Cup

  Now that the final (recycled) gold medal has been presented, concluding what might have been the most environmentally friendly Olympics to date,...

  by Alicia Capetillo +

• Design

  

  design mind on GOOD Will Return Next Week

  design mind on GOOD, our series on design and social innovation with the editors of the magazine design mind, will be back on Tuesday, January 5....

  by GOOD +

• Design

  

  Max, Relax Anywhere with the Stoop Bench

  In the Slow Issue, we told you how to build your own stoop so you would always have a place to mellow out. If you haven't gotten around to...

  by Andrew Price +

• Design

  

  Intermission: The World's Biggest House of Cards

  No, it's not our financial system. Bryan Berg has beaten his own Guinness record for the largest freestanding structure built from playing cards....

  by Andrew Price +

• Design

  

  Betacup: Design a Better Coffee Cup

  The Betacup Challenge is a contest to design a more convenient, less wasteful vessel for coffee than the standard disposable cup. Here's an...

  by Andrew Price +