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• GOOD Blog

  

  Microsoft to Seinfeld: Get Out! (Updated)

    It's a sad day for the few of us who actually liked the Seinfeld-Gates Microsoft ad saga-which has finished running its much derided course....

  by Patrick James

• Environment

  

  Microsoft Tool to Help Ford's Electric Vehicles

  Although Microsoft is known for its software, most notably the Windows operating systems, the company is branching out into an unlikely...

  by Mother Nature Network

• Business

  

  Learning From our All-Tablet, All-Information Microsoft Future

  Imagining the next five years of consumer electronics.

  by Tim Fernholz

• Environment

  

  Microsoft's Hohm: Comparing Your Home Energy Use with 60 Million Others

  For some people, putting their household energy consumption up against that of other homes spurs on a little neighborly one-upmanship, and a drive...

  by Brittany Wong

• Lifestyle

  

  Drinkable Bagels and Pea Fat: Cooking with Microsoft's Former Chief Technology Officer

  Sampling recipes from Nathan Myrhvold's $500 cookbook—made in his own ridiculously high-tech R&D kitchen.

  by Nicola Twilley

• GOOD Blog

  

  Cool Rubber Bags

  Treehugger discovers some really cool bags made from recycled rubber. And you thought you were cool for having that canvas book bag. Think again!.

  by Anonymous

• GOOD Blog

  

  Vélib’ c'est Cool?

  A few days ago Patrick posted about the vandalism and theft that threatened to end Vélib', Paris's experiment in large-scale bikesharing. The New...

  by Andrew Price

• Environment

  

  The GOOD 100: Cool Roofs

  Paint your roof white. By Hashem Akbari As the threat of climate change becomes more pronounced, a number of scientists have proposed...

  by GOOD

• News

  

  Pretty Cool: The FT-CH Compact Hybrid

  The Detroit Auto Show is going on right now. It's a restrained event this year. But Toyota did make a bit of a splash with its "baby Prius," the...

  by Andrew Price

• Design

  

  Buying Cool Stuff for Haiti

  Buying some elegant tcotchkes and T-shirts just got a little more meaningful. Cool Hunting reports on Crafts for a Cause, an online auction...

  by GOOD

• Environment

  

  Restoring Rivers Could Help Cool Cities

  A new study shows that rivers help cool cities when they need it most, during the hottest hours of the warmest months.

  by Sarah Laskow

• Education

  

  What 'Black Cool' Looks Like in the Classroom

  There aren't enough black teachers in America's schools, but the ones that do have bring a special aesthetic to the classroom.

  by José Vilson

• GOOD Blog

  

  How Cool Things Are Made

  Remember those videos on Sesame Street, where they showed you the peanut butter factory and the crayon factory and they were the coolest things...

  by Anonymous

• Environment

  

  Cool Hand Luke (Dirty Version)

  For World Water Day: GOOD re-imagines iconic moments from American culture that wouldn't have been the same without clean water. An original...

  by GOOD

• Environment

  

  White Roofs: So Cool Right Now

  Guest blogger Seth Shostak proposed painting our roads white a few days ago, creating somewhat of a hubbub. The idea of painting roofs white is a...

  by Morgan Clendaniel

• Business

  

  We Have a Cool Million More Millionaires in America

  According to a recent Spectrum Group study, there are 7.8 million millionaire households in America as of 2009, up from a paltry 6.7 million...

  by Patrick James

• Environment

  

  Submissions: Show Us How You Kept Your Cool

  This summer's heat broke records around the globe. GOOD asked you to send in your best photos showing how you survived.

  by Zak Stone

• Environment

  

  Do Airplane Contrails Heat or Cool the Planet?

  We're not entirely sure, it turns out. For a long time now, climatologists have believed that the contrails–those white vapor trails left by...

  by Ben Jervey

• Education

  

  Charter Schools: A Seat at the Cool Kids' Table

  As it concerns charter schools, whether you're hoping to sound really smart at your next dinner party or just generally catch up to speed, the...

  by Amanda M. Fairbanks

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  The Daily Show Mocks Hermit Crabs and That's Not Cool

  We don't mention The Daily Show on this blog all that frequently because it's just understood that Jon Stewart is awesome and there's not much to...

  by Andrew Price