The Millennium Development Goals: Tackling the World's Biggest Problems

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• Design

  

  Submissions: Design a Poster Marking Progress in the Millennium Development Goals

  See the submissions to our Millennium Development Goals poster project.

  by GOOD

• Design

  

  Winner: Design a Poster Marking Progress in the Millennium Development Goals

  We're excited to announce the winner of our latest project, in partnership with the Gates Foundation. We asked you to design a poster marking the...

  by GOOD

• Lifestyle

  

  Homeless Running "Hero" Tackles His Biggest Goal: A Full Marathon

  Eric Fair lives in a homeless shelter. He's trying to get back on his feet after a history of drugs and prison. So, he runs ... a lot, a whole lot.

  by Lauren F. Friedman

• Business

  

  The World's Top 40 Development Innovators : Local, Tech Savvy May Be Key to Improving Aid

  Thousands of aid workers and development professionals picked the 40 most innovative groups in their field. See who they left out.

  by Alex Goldmark

• News

  

  Recession May Cost U.N. Its Education Development Goal

  Among the targets set out by the U.N. in its Millennium Development Goals, which it adopted in 2000, was a plan to ensure primary education for...

  by Nikhil Swaminathan

• Culture

  

  The World Reacts to Landon Donovan's Game-Winning Goal

  In the spirit of Andrew's post from yesterday, here's a video of reactions to Landon Donovan's game-winning goal from around the world. I dare...

  by Patrick James

• Business

  

  Five Lessons From The World's 10 Biggest Employers

  If jobs are the big economic problem, the ten organizations that create the most of them must have something to tell us.

  by Tim Fernholz

• Culture

  

  The World's Biggest Word Book Grows Again

  Anyhoo... The latest additions to the Oxford English Dictionary are a mixed bag. Many of us welcome autumn for bringing gorgeous weather,...

  by Mark Peters

• Design

  

  Intermission: The World's Biggest House of Cards

  No, it's not our financial system. Bryan Berg has beaten his own Guinness record for the largest freestanding structure built from playing cards....

  by Andrew Price

• GOOD Blog

  

  Hamburg Orchestra Puts on World's Biggest Concert

  In light of yesterday's Google orchestra post, I couldn't resist this equally creative classical music story I came across today. The Hamburg...

  by Zach Frechette

• Technology

  

  Nonprofit Wants to Buy the World's Biggest Communications Satellite

  There's a huge satellite for sale and the nonprofit group A Human Right wants to buy it to provide internet access to the unconnected.

  by Andrew Price

• Education

  

  Wanted: Agents of Change in the Developing World

  A new initiative puts people in developing countries in charge of their lives and prepares students to be change agents.

  by Phil Weilerstein

• Education

  

  Plain Ink: Comic Books for the Developing World

  We got Osama bin Laden with a crack team of Navy SEALs, but there are other ways of fighting terrorism, too. Comic books, for example.

  by Andrew Price

• Environment

  

  China's Building "The Biggest Solar Energy Production Base in the Whole World"

  The Washington Post reports on Solar Valley, a planned $740 million development outside Dezhou, China, that aims to be the clean energy technology...

  by Andrew Price

• Technology

  

  Google Throws What's Probably the World's Biggest Science Fair

  Google is looking to discover the best young scientists in the world, and is throwing a big global science fair to find them.

  by Ben Jervey

• Lifestyle

  

  Adding Iron to Soy Sauce and Other Nutritional Tricks for the Developing World

  In the developing world, nutrients aren't always in diets. Adding those nutrients to the available food can be a huge boost to public health.

  by GOOD, Kiss Me I'm Polish

• Lifestyle

  

  Infographic: How Community Health Workers Save Lives in the Developing World

  Community health workers—trained practitioners who provide health care for pregnant women and treat newborns—give lifesaving care.

  by GOOD, Kiss Me I'm Polish

• News

  

  The Rest of the World Has Problems, Too

  Over at Wired, GOOD contributor Parag Khanna takes a look at the countries around the world where problems could flare up in the next few years,...

  by Morgan Clendaniel

• Business

  

  How Not to Save the World, or Why the LifeStraw Is a Stupid Idea

  Kevin Starr of the Mulago Foundation gives an eye-opening talk, eviscerating several of the most darling ideas in economic development.

  by Alex Goldmark

• Business

  

  Game Changing Eyeglasses for the Developing World that Work for Every Prescription

  Adaptive eyeglasses eliminate the need for an optician, potentially making it affordable for hundreds of millions of people to see clearly.

  by Alex Goldmark