A story in this weekend's New York Times Magazine shows the triumphs and challenges of designers working in a rural Alabama community, featuring Project M, Buy a Meter, and PieLab.
A story in this weekend's New York Times Magazine shows the triumphs and challenges of designers working in a rural Alabama community, featuring Project M, Buy a Meter, and PieLab.

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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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A Geodesic Dome Promises Fish from the Sky
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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What Country Has the Best Higher Education System?
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In a Majority-Minority Nation, Numbers Aren't Everything
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Facebook Doesn't Need Your Money; Invest in Africa Instead
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Juilliard Brings Online Music Education to the Masses
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Sleep Better: 4 Ways to Manipulate Your Melatonin Levels #30DaysofGOOD
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A Place in the Sun: 5 DIY Projects for Summer Lounging
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork

FEED Foundation co-founder Ellen Gustafson is launching an ambitious 30-year project to change the food system, and she needs our help.

Creating politically charged street art just got a bit easier with this new adjustable pie-chart stencil.
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These charming local activists have 15 new plans to fix a neighborhood problem they know a lot about, and they're getting help to do it.

Think Republicans want to cut a lot of spending? Think again. Just look how tiny that speck of savings is compared to the whole federal budget.
Our Flickr group for Project 006: GOOD or BAD Design? got a dose of fresh graphic design from illl. Some of his work has hints of Ralph...
America's streets leave a lot to be desired. As Carly Clark and Aaron Naparstek write in the latest issue of GOOD, "For the most part,...

We challenge you to create a functional, better-looking Libya leaflet using an actual NATO slogan: “One Libya, One People.”

Time to retire your boring business card. For this project, we're challenge you to design one people will remember.
Our friends at the Canary Project have recently launched a new initiative, called Green Patriot Posters. Taking inspiration from posters during...
For Project 010: The Project Project, we asked you to create a GOOD Project. A submission from Malu Roldan, called No Bleed Aesthetic, that...

We're looking for infographics about who is running, who is voting, who is paying for campaigns; anything you can think of about the election.

Help design an infographic about energy, and your work could be featured in the Energy Issue.

What's the most American sandwich of all? Design a new sammy to rep the USA.
Nau, the sustainable clothing company (read about them more here), kicked off their annual Grant for Change contest this May, and now the polls...

The Los Angeles-based company Della produces delightful laptop cases that are soft and sustainable, and they make life better for women in Ghana.
Emily Pilloton believes that good design can change the world. Here's her TED Talk on the subject.
Way back in April, we announced our project, Design a School Garden with LAUSD (and We'll Build It!). Over the next few weeks we received 40...

Sandwiches 235 years in the making.

Show us a simple, everyday solution where design thinking and sustainable thinking brilliantly co-exist, and you'll win two tickets to Compostmodern!

MercyCorps wants you to help promote the idea of giving to the developing world during the holidays.