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• Cities

  

  Using Technology to Improve City Services

  Most city government agencies tend to gather their own data in parallel, and they rarely share information with each other. This can make life...

  by GOOD, Redub, Oliver Munday +

• Technology

  

  Keeping Energy Use Down with the Joneses

  A few utility companies have been trying pilot programs that show customers how their energy use compares with their that of their neighbors. It...

  by Andrew Price +

• Technology

  

  It Actually Works: An Electric Train Charged by the Road

  Back in October, we heard about a German company that was patenting a system whereby the road itself could charge electric vehicles as they...

  by Andrew Price +

• Cities

  

  Cars That Drive Themselves

  Wouldn't it be nice to get in your car and be able to read the news or take a nap without the constant stress of actually operating the...

  by Andrew Price +

• Cities

  

  Using Technology to Prevent Blackouts

  It's easy to take electricity for granted. Because it's such a critical part of our lives, we expect it to be there all the time. When the...

  by GOOD, Redub, Oliver Munday 1

• Technology

  

  Internet Retail

  More and more of our shopping is happening online. And in the digital marketplace, shoppers write and read millions of reviews each year,...

  by GOOD 2

• Cities

  

  Rethinking Cities: Health and Government

  Intermountain Healthcare: Salt Lake City, Utah Intermountain, the lowest cost-per-capita health- care provider in the United States,...

  by GOOD, Oliver Munday +

• Technology

  

  Putting Satellite Imagery to Better Use

  Besides the emotional images of dead bodies and homeless and injured earthquake victims, some of the most shocking images in the aftermath of last...

  by GOOD +

• Cities

  

  Saving Money by Cutting Traffic

  America is known for its car culture—but we haven't designed our daily commutes from home to work (and back) to be easy. In fact, they're...

  by GOOD, Oliver Munday +

• Technology

  

  The "World's Cheapest Cell Phone"

  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...

  by Andrew Price +

• Technology

  

  How Do You Solve a Problem Like Cell Phone E-waste?

  From tweens furiously texting to businessmen incessantly checking for incoming e-mails, it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell where a...

  by Alicia Capetillo +

• GOOD Blog

  

  One Charger for All the Universe's Phones

  Back in February we heard that the cell phone companies were thinking about making every phone compatible with a single kind of charger. Well,...

  by Andrew Price +

• Technology

  

  Dialing Our Pain with Our Cell Phones (Which Are Killing Us Softly)

  For the past decade, there has been a fairly constant stream of nightly local news features on how cell phones might cause brain tumors or...

  by Patrick James 1

• Business

  

  Superb Idea: This Machine Recycles Your Old Phone and Gives You Money

  Despite the slightly dubious name, the ecoATM is a smart piece of work. Like those Coinstar machines, the ecoATM is designed to sit in grocery and...

  by Andrew Price +

• Technology

  

  Sourcemap: Map Where Stuff Comes From

  Sourcemap is a new tool from the clever folks at the MIT Media Lab that's meant to help you track the origins of all the components of basically...

  by Andrew Price +

• Technology

  

  A Map of the Drone Strikes in Pakistan

  The New America Foundation has an interactive map showing all the American drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004. (Or at least all those they...

  by Andrew Price +

• Technology

  

  Google Maps Adds a Cycling Option

  Good news! Google maps has added bike routes in "hundreds of U.S. cities" (video after the jump). I wonder if that petition factored...

  by Andrew Price +

• Cities

  

  Ideas for Cities: Tech Missions

  Tech Missions Technology evangelists and coaches could function as a mobile “genius bar,” going out to every neighborhood via exploration buses...

  by GOOD +

• Technology

  

  Singularity 101 Will Return Next Week

  The singularity may be near, as Ray Kurzweil says, but our series, Singularity 101, is taking a break this week for the holidays. The next post...

  by GOOD +

• Technology

  

  Skinput: Your Arm as Control Panel

  This prototype of a system called "skinput" (and it is definitely a prototype) lets you use your forearm or fingers to control your electronics....

  by Andrew Price +