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• Business

  

  Want Your Kid to Be a CEO? Name Him Peter

  The professional networking site LinkedIn has analyzed its database of 100 million members to determine if a name can make the man (or woman)....

  by Alex Goldmark

• Lifestyle

  

  The GOOD Lunch: Vegetarian Tom Ka Soup

  Every Tuesday and Thursday in 2011, the GOOD team has pledged to take turns to cook and share a big bowl of soup or salad.

  by Amanda Ehrman, Isis Krause

• Business

  

  TOMS Asks: Can You Go One Day Without Shoes?

  April 5 is a "Day Without Shoes." Will you go barefoot for change? To help kids in the developing world get footwear?

  by Alex Goldmark

• Business

  

  Should Your Office Hold Recess? A Contest for Playful CEOs

  Some of the most important business skills might start on the playground. A play promoting nonprofit is hunting for the most playful CEO in America.

  by Alex Goldmark

• Business

  

  Guess How Much Bank CEO Pay Increased in 2010

  Bank CEOs are out of the spotlight now, so they're taking big raises to make up for the last two years.

  by Alex Goldmark

• Business

  

  Seventh Generation Snags Burt's Bees CEO to Replace Founder

  Seventh Generation was shaken when it fired its founder. Will the new CEO live up to the company's core values?

  by Alex Goldmark

• Design

  

  GOOD Design Daily: The Prettiest Capital Letters You've Ever Seen

  Jessica Hische has designed almost 300 customized "drop caps," those decorative characters that open a paragraph. And you're welcome to use them.

  by Alissa Walker

• News

  

  GOOD Guide: to North Korea, The "Capital of Revolution" Tour (sec. 8 of 10)

  GOOD Guide to North Korea, The "Capital of Revolution" Tour (sec. 8 of 10)

  by Paul French

• Lifestyle

  

  How to Cultivate Conscious Laziness

  This article is part of The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. Read more of the guide here. People talk a big...

  by GOOD, ReadyMade

• GOOD Blog

  

  Slavoj Zizek on the Hypocrisy of Conscious Consumerism

  Do you buy organic apples because you think they taste better or because you're trying to buy redemption for your own participation in a...

  by Andrew Price

• Lifestyle

  

  Ethical Style: Fashion Advice for the Socially Conscious

  Introducing GOOD's new column on dressing ethically.

  by Tabea Kay, Jessica De Jesus

• News

  

  Calling All Conscious Crafters: Put a Cap on Infant Mortality

  By the end of the month, Caps for Good aims to collect four million knit caps for distribution throughout the developing world.

  by Zachary Slobig

• Cities

  

  At SXSW, an Electric Bike Offers a Path to Conscious Commuting

  Conscious Commuter is showing off a fully collapsible, electric bicycle at this year's SXSW Green Zone

  by Zak Stone

• Environment

  

  Talking Hands Provide Perfect Summary of the Cancun Climate Talks

  This goofy two-minute video by some British kids does a better job explaining the overall arc of the Cancun climate talks than most mainstream media.

  by Ben Jervey

• News

  

  Tom For President

  The candidates are flocking to MySpace, and MySpace is providing a presidential election forum. What fun. In the annals of political history this...

  by Morgan Clendaniel

• Business

  

  What Mitt Romney Talks About When He Talks About Business

  Mitt Romney is on track to win the Republican presidential nomination as a businessman's businessman. What exactly does that mean?

  by Tim Fernholz

• Lifestyle

  

  How Gynecologists Talk—And Don't Talk—About Sex

  A new study examines how gynecologists and obstetricians talk about sexual activity with their patients—if they talk about it at all.

  by Amanda Hess

• GOOD Blog

  

  Party With TOMS Shoes

  TOMS Shoes: you buy a pair of their simple, stylish shoes and they in turn give a pair to a shoeless child.The plan is widely recognized as good...

  by Andrew Price

• Environment

  

  Tom Friedman Foolery

  We can link to New York Times Op-Eds now. Sweet! Check out Tom Friedman's latest call to apathy.He argues that because booming cities like Doha in...

  by Andrew Price

• Culture

  

  How Not to Talk When You Talk About Rape

  The IMF's Dominique Strauss-Kahn is in police custody in New York, but it's the people writing about him behaving criminally.

  by Cord Jefferson