State of the Planet Slideshow

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• Environment

  

  Is The Earth a Mosque? What Islam Teaches About Saving the Planet

  What does the Koran say about climate change? A lot actually. No other faith on the planet is so clear that human action can destroy the planet.

  by ibrahim abdul-matin +

• News

  

  Slideshow: Bin Laden Death Draws Celebrations, Flags, Champagne, Pets

  Cheering, chanting, climbing and a flag waving hound dog. See who converged on Ground Zero after Osama Bin Laden's death.

  by Alex Goldmark +

• News

  

  The Stimulus, State by State

  Sixty-six percent of the $825 billion in the stimulus bill is designated for specific states. In this great interactive piece (about halfway down...

  by Andrew Price +

• Environment

  

  OptimistiCartography: Every State is Good at Something

  An infographic that lists something—from PhDs to teen pregnancies—that each state has or produces more of than its forty-nine rivals.

  by Nicola Twilley +

• Design

  

  Arizona Is the Sunniest State. Mississippi Is the Fattest. Maps of State Superlatives

  Two maps show states at the top and bottom of various statistical rankings. How does your home stack up?

  by Morgan Clendaniel +

• Lifestyle

  

  UPDATE: The United States of GOOD Beer: What's the Best Beer Brewed in Your State?

  We need your help: What is the most awesome, best tasting, sustainably brewed, independently owned, community-oriented craft beer in your state?

  by Nicola Twilley +

• Environment

  

  Religion For The Planet

  Let's hear it for re-branding! If you're, say, a religious conservative, but you also happen to not want to to destroy the environment, you're not...

  by Anonymous +

• Environment

  

  Map: What If Our Western States Were Shaped by Watersheds?

  John Wesley Powell thought our western borders should be shaped by watersheds. A 130-year-old map shows how the West would have looked.

  by Ben Jervey +

• GOOD Blog

  

  Planet's Most Published Author?

  Philip M. Parker-the self-proclaimed "most published author in the history of the planet"-has officially "written" 200,000 books, and makes money...

  by Daniel Riley +

• Issue 014

  

  Diet For a Small Planet

  The world may be shrinking, but we're all getting bigger. See how globalization is affecting the way we all eat-for better or for (mostly)...

  by GOOD +

• News

  

  The Planet Is Burning!

  And changing your lightbulb isn't going to fix it. See what other countries are doing to curb their impact. China, the world's biggest consumer...

  by Jennifer Hile +

• Business

  

  The GOOD 100: Planet Money

  Global Finance The best explanation of the financial crisis can be found on NPR. Like the housing crisis, NPR's popular new...

  by Alex Goldmark +

• Business

  

  The Happy Planet Index

  Happy Planet Index (2006 data) - Green is Highest Rating, Brown is Lowest. How should we evaluate the success of our economy? The primary...

  by Alex Goldmark 1

• Design

  

  Slideshow Buffet

  At Casey Kelbaugh's gatherings, artists connect through photography...and casserole.

  by Yvonne Puig, Casey Kelbaugh +

• Business

  

  Rewarding Households for Saving the Planet

  An incentive-based system to increase recycling rates in your community. According to behavioral psychologists, people will do all kinds of...

  by Christopher Mims +

• Environment

  

  We've Run Out of Planet for the Year

  Shucks. It seems like sometime last Friday, around 3:00 p.m. EST, we crossed over the threshold of acceptable usage for Earth. That means we are...

  by Zach Frechette +

• Design

  

  A Logo for Every City on the Planet

  If your city had a logo, what would it look like? Well, now you can design one yourself. A project called CitID is collecting logos for cities...

  by Andrew Price 5

• News

  

  Hatching a Plan to Save the Planet

  He's got the plan for how we can share our resources instead of plundering them. Lester Brown-head of the Earth Policy Institute and, for...

  by Christopher Mims +

• Environment

  

  It's Confirmed. Again. The Planet's Getting Warmer.

  Sigh. Apparently there's still some confusion about whether the planet is getting warmer or cooler. Now only 57 percent of Americans believe there...

  by Andrew Price 1

• Environment

  

  Life, the Sequel to Planet Earth

  We're getting a sequel to the Discovery Channel's BBC's breathtaking Planet Earth series. It's called Life, and its focus is more on animate...

  by Andrew Price +