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• Design

  

  The Fake Freeway Sign that Became a Real Public Service

  An artist uses a freeway as his canvas, all in the name of public good. The freeway sign arrived in Los Angeles five days after I did. It...

  by Alissa Walker +

• Design

  

  When Is Public Art Not Public? When It Stars in a Movie

  A Los Angeles museum charged the recent Natalie Portman-Ashton Kutcher film a fee to shoot under a famous public artwork by Chris Burden.

  by Alissa Walker +

• GOOD Blog

  

  Service Day Pictures

  We asked people from around the country to send us pictures from their 2009 King Day of Service events. From Denver to Miami, people chose to help...

  by Andrew Price +

• GOOD Blog

  

  Should Public Transportation Be Free?

  Here's a recession paradox: despite booming ridership, public transportation systems are raising fares, cutting back service, or both. Why?...

  by Andrew Price +

• Design

  

  Filmmakers Win Nau's Grant for Change, Totally Deserve It

  Our friends at Nau just announced the recipients of their first ever $10,000 "Grant for Change": film and photography duo Benjamin Drummond and...

  by Andrew Price +

• Culture

  

  Idea: Free Public Transportation for Homeless People

  A free-ride program in Northern California is going to help restore some dignity and mobility to the area's homeless population.

  by Cord Jefferson +

• Culture

  

  Day 22 Slideshow: Document the Thing You Spend Most of the Day Looking at #30DaysofGOOD

  Take a look at our favorite snapshots from today's #30DayofGOOD Challenge: Document the thing you spend most of the day looking at.

  by Hillary Newman +

• Culture

  

  Day 22: Document the Thing You Spend Most of the Day Looking at #30DaysofGOOD

  Get your cameras ready. For November's challenge, we're asking you to document your life, from your day to the thing you look at most.

  by Christine Wong +

• Environment

  

  Free Flowing: How to Keep Our Water Supply Public

  Italians have voted not to let private companies take over their public water supply. Our fight in the U.S. is much quieter.

  by Nona Willis Aronowitz +

• News

  

  Protestors Are Awesome: Activists Turn Banks into Ad Hoc Classrooms to Protest Public Service Cuts

  U.K. protestors transformed banks into the services the government is hoping to cut.

  by Allison Arieff +

• News

  

  It's Time "Person of the Year" Time (Big Ben)

  That's right, Time's person of the year for 2009 is Ben Bernanke, the "mild-mannered man who runs the Federal Reserve and prevented an economic...

  by Patrick James +

• News

  

  Donate Your Time (or Share Your Tools) for the L.A. River's Day of Service

  We've teamed up with NeighborGoods to help anyone share tools for this weekend's massive river clean-up, taking place at 14 locations in the city.

  by Alissa Walker +

• Education

  

  No More Free Tuition at Harvard Law

  I know, I thought it too: Harvard was offering free tuition?! Kind of, yeah. Third-year students at Harvard Law who committed to five years of...

  by Siobhan O'Connor +

• Education

  

  Skipping School: A Look at Free Higher-Education Alternatives

  An increasing number of free and cheap higher-education alternatives are changing post-secondary education.

  by Cord Jefferson +

• Education

  

  Education: Morning Roundup, No Rules Apply at Manhattan's Free School

  Manhattan's Free School has 23 students, ages 5 to 18, a sliding tuition scale, and no rules.

  by Amanda M. Fairbanks +

• Culture

  

  48 Hour Magazine: Creating a Crowdsourced Print Publication in Two Days

  New technology isn't just upending the publishing industry, it's also making fun experiments in old media possible. Case in point: 48 Hour...

  by Andrew Price 5

• Business

  

  Makin' It: Jason Sigal, Free Music Expert

  GOOD's career column talks to Jason Sigal, manager of the Free Music Archive, about radio in the digital era and making copyrights "human readable."

  by Brady Welch, Skyler Swezy +

• Environment

  

  Overload: The Public's Down on Nuclear Power, Stewart Brand's Still Behind It, and More

  The post-earthquake debate about nuclear reactors, massive new coal mining, and more of what we're reading at GOOD Environment HQ.

  by Ben Jervey +

• Education

  

  The Last Free Speech: Street Art at Manual Arts High School

  World renowned artists are heading to South Los Angeles to collaborate with students and visually give voice to social and political issues.

  by Liz Dwyer +

• News

  

  Public Transportation Creates Jobs and the Numbers to Prove It

  A group called Smart Growth America has a new report out showing that when it comes to job creation, it's better to spend stimulus funds on public...

  by Andrew Price 1