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• Environment

  

  Bees Please

  Did you check out GOOD's feature on David Graves, that sweet guy who beekeeps atop buildings in New York City to produce outstanding local...

  by Alexandra Marvar +

• Environment

  

  Please Mr. Postman

  After dealing with the sheer ineptitude of our nation's postal delivery service, it's nice to see them doing something that doesn't involve...

  by admin +

• GOOD Blog

  

  Supersize This. Please.

  Perhaps you've seen the Burger King commercials which proudly blare that their burgers now have four patties. Eating two double burgers in rapid...

  by Anonymous +

• Issue 014

  

  Project 014: Nominees, Please

  UPDATE: Nominations are closed. We still have a bunch of submissions in our inbox, though, so if you sent one in and don't see it on the list yet,...

  by GOOD +

• GOOD Blog

  

  Help Make GOOD Better (Please)

  We have some exciting ideas kicking around the office for how GOOD should grow next so we put together a short survey to find out what you want...

  by GOOD 2

• GOOD Blog

  

  Oh, Hi. Please Come In.

  This is our new website. Have a look around. We're particularly happy about the way the video page turned out. The GOOD Blog now lives here. We've...

  by GOOD +

• GOOD Blog

  

  Number 16 Bus Shelter, Please Stand Up

  On the topic of controversial names and legal name changes, a judge in New Zealand has ordered two parents to change the name of their daughter,...

  by Alexandra Marvar +

• Environment

  

  Hold the Traffic, Please: Six Cities That Could be Car-Free

  Imagine strolling through your favorite big city and being able to cross streets without staging a dangerous reenactment of Frogger. While some...

  by Alicia Capetillo +

• 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

• Culture

  

  Generation Rent: How Our American Dream Is Different from Our Parents'

  Owning a home may be a pipe dream for millennials. Here's how members of Generation Rent differ from their parents.

  by Nona Willis Aronowitz +

• News

  

  D.C. Bag Tax: What Have We Done? (Seriously, Please Explain)

  Washington D.C.'s first-of-its-kind tax on disposable bags made quite a splash a week or so ago. Now the District is trying to figure out what...

  by Andrew Price +

• Culture

  

  First Photos of the Fukushima 50: "Please Continue to Live Well, I Can't Be Home for A While"

  Harrowing photos emerge from inside Japan's nuclear terror.

  by Cord Jefferson +

• Lifestyle

  

  Where the Sidewalk Ends: How Our Neighborhoods Affect the Way We Move

  Environmental factors could have a big influence on how often we get off our butts.

  by Amanda Hess +

• GOOD Blog

  

  The Father Of Our Country

  George Washington, revisited in this You Tube video. Apparently, he was much more interesting than we ever knew. Once he barricaded British...

  by Anonymous +

• GOOD Blog

  

  Apple Of Our Eye

  iPhone. We're slightly obsessed. Watch the keynote and you'll begin to understand why. Then read about Apple's brilliant strategy to keep it a...

  by Rudy Adler +

• GOOD Blog

  

  Our Kind Of Fan

  Scott Wiese, we salute you. You made good on a bet to legally change your name to Peyton Manning when your Bears lost the Super Bowl. You get the...

  by Patrick James +

• GOOD Blog

  

  Our Crumbling Roads

  According to this graphic from The Atlantic, the roads and highways in our metropolitan areas are packed beyond capacity and it's costing us...

  by Andrew Price +

• GOOD Blog

  

  Belgians: They're Taking Our History

  OK, first, a Belgian company called InBev up and buys Anheuser-Busch. Now, a Belgian inventor named Paul Otlet has invented the internet in 1934....

  by Patrick James +

• GOOD Blog

  

  Flipping Our Lids

  This is astounding. Flip has made a tiny camcorder that records in high definition. It costs a very reasonable $230 and looks generally awesome....

  by Patrick James +

• News

  

  Here's What Our Energy Grid Looks Like

  You've probably heard about our outdated energy grid and the need to create a new, "smart" one. Here's what the problem-and a possible...

  by Andrew Price 1