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• Environment

  

  Superb Idea: The Rainwater Pillow

  nHere's an interesting contraption for rainwater collection:The Rainwater Pillow system.

  by Andrew Price

• Lifestyle

  

  Superb Idea: The Bee Station

  Due to the disastrous decline in their population, the remaining bees are overworked. Check out this new design for bees to nest, rest, and refuel.

  by Nicola Twilley

• Technology

  

  Superb Idea: Body-heat-powered Electronics

  A couple of scientists over at MIT have come up with something novel and potentially very useful: They've figured out how to harvest body heat to...

  by Siobhan O'Connor

• Cities

  

  Superb Idea: Buildings that Eat Smog

  A new coating for aluminum panels will help our energy-hungry buildings clean the air themselves.

  by Andrew Price

• Culture

  

  Superb Idea: Airlines Should Have Dress Codes

  Another person has been kicked off a plane because of his clothes. Why can't airlines define "inappropriate" attire?

  by Cord Jefferson

• GOOD Blog

  

  Superb Idea: Bike Lane That Travels With You

  As we look for ways to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and find viable transportation alternatives to the internal combustion engine, many...

  by Zach Frechette

• GOOD Blog

  

  Superb Nonexistent Idea: Universal Subway Cards

  We've posted before about the nation's proposed new high-speed rail network, and today Obama gave a speech about his plans to implement such a...

  by Morgan Clendaniel

• GOOD Blog

  

  Superb Idea: Alternative Uses for Everyday Things

  The recently-launched AltUse website does exactly what you'd think it would do: suggest alternative uses for everyday objects around your home...

  by Zach Frechette

• Technology

  

  Superb Idea: The Energy-harvesting Rocking Horse

  Well, this is awesome: a charming-looking rocking horse that harvests kinetic energy while kids play on it. As it gathers more energy, the lights...

  by Siobhan O'Connor

• Lifestyle

  

  Superb Idea: Spaghetti with Built-In Portion Control

  This elegant hexagonal spaghetti package contains six single portions, so you can make the right amount no matter how many people you're cooking for.

  by Nicola Twilley

• Environment

  

  Superb Idea: A Toilet that Uses Runoff Water from Your Sink

  The AQUS System is a simple way to capture the water from your sink's drain, do some basic filtering, and then run it into your toilet.

  by Casey Caplowe

• Business

  

  Superb Idea: Student Loan Payback Based on Earnings

  Slate's Eliot Spitzer (yes, that very one) thinks the way we pay for higher education is bonkers, and he's right. College costs too much. It's a...

  by Patrick James

• GOOD Blog

  

  Superb Idea: Vibrating-Braille Touchscreen Phones For the Blind

  A team at the University of Tampere in Finland is developing the technology to make bring a kind of vibrating Braille to touchscreen-phones for...

  by Siobhan O'Connor

• Lifestyle

  

  Superb Idea: An App That Tells You What’s in Season

  I'm not sure if this is the first of its kind, but it's brilliant: the Seasons iPhone application will give you seasons information for "fruits,...

  by Andrew Price

• Lifestyle

  

  Superb Idea: Pay Fishermen to Catch Trash

  A pilot project will begin this month which will pay fishermen to ease up on taxed European fish stocks and catch plastic trash instead.

  by Andrew Price

• Environment

  

  Superb Idea: Sled You Can Use Year-round

  While it's true that sledding might not typically be thought of as a world-changing endeavor, at least one company is trying to prepare us for the...

  by Zach Frechette

• Environment

  

  Superb Idea: Household Cleaning Products in Re-used Plastic Bottles

  New liquid soap packaged is in old plastic soda bottles, plastic water bottles and glass bottles.

  by Zach Frechette

• Lifestyle

  

  Superb Idea: Supermarket Vegetable Packaging Helps You Grow Your Own

  British art student Ben Huttly's vegetable packaging is 100 percent biodegradable; what's more, the labels are embedded with seeds.

  by Nicola Twilley

• Education

  

  Superb Idea: Have Students Role-Play the College Recruiting Process

  It's not enough to tell kids to go to college. You have to invest them in the idea, too.

  by Liz Dwyer

• News

  

  Not-superb Idea: The E.U.'s New Ban on Gender-specific Words

  Oh, boy. The European Parliament has circulated a pamphlet banning the use of gendered language by MPs. The list of  verboten words includes Mrs,...

  by Siobhan O'Connor