GOOD
hard at work
-
1
Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
-
2
Infographic: Understanding Social Enterprise
-
3
Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
-
4
TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
-
5
Is it Time to 'Occupy Teach For America'?
Get the Daily GOOD
One good thing a day.
Good Elsewhere
Sponsored by University of PhoenixRelated posts
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.
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.
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...
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.
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?
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?
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.
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...
Design
Slideshow Buffet
At Casey Kelbaugh's gatherings, artists connect through photography...and casserole.
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Environment
For Earth Day, Pledges for the Planet
We asked environmental leaders to us what they'd pledge to do on Earth Day to help the planet. What will you do?
GOOD Blog
Slideshow+Potluck=Slideluck Potshow
Casey Kelbaugh's slideshow-and-potluck events (which appeared in GOOD recently) are picking up steam.It works like this: everyone brings something...
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...
