The Rules Of: Going to the Desert

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• Lifestyle

  

  Are Shipping Containers the Solution to Food Deserts?

  The solution to the problem of urban food deserts may come in a shipping container

  by Zak Stone

• Lifestyle

  

  Map: Do You Live in a Food Desert?

  Calling all cartographers! Using the USDA's data, you can map the connection between farmers' markets and food deserts in your neighborhood.

  by Peter Smith

• Design

  

  Empowering Teens to Green the Food Desert

  How students in Los Angeles are helping foment a healthy eating revolution in their own neighborhoods. This Thanksgiving, when you dashed into...

  by Alissa Walker

• Design

  

  A Solution to Reverse Africa's Growing Deserts

  I've often said that the most sophisticated green technology on the planet is the humble tree. Trees sequester carbon, fix nitrogen into the soil,...

  by Mother Nature Network

• Issue 011

  

  GOOD Guide: to the Shadowy Organizations That Rule the World

  Freemasons, Bilderberg, Skull and Bones-what do they actually do? Matt Schwartz peels back the curtains of the world's top secret societies.

  by Matt Schwartz

• Business

  

  Business Breakdown: New Pollution Rules to Close Coal Plants

  Rolling blackouts, asthma attacks and cost-benefit analysis, oh my!

  by Tim Fernholz

• Lifestyle

  

  Welcome to the Future, Would You Like a Poop Burger to Go?

  Mitsyuki Ikeda has invented a new way of making hamburger. He extracts proteins and fats from "sewage mud."

  by Peter Smith

• Culture

  

  #30DaysofGOOD Challenge: 24. Go to a Neighborhood Business You've Never Been to

  Each month, we challenge our community to do something that will improve the world around us—and our own lives. September's challenge? To connect.

  by Hillary Newman

• Environment

  

  This Is What They're Going to Try to Put on the Oil Leak

  So BP has finished building the first of three huge steel domes that it's hoping to drop down on top of the oil leaks on the ocean floor. Here's a...

  by Andrew Price

• Education

  

  A City Education: Going Back to Basics Is Key to Achievement

  A City Year Los Angeles corps member discusses the importance of going back to basics with struggling readers.

  by Liz Warden

• Education

  

  Attention Santorum: 99 Percent of Republicans Expect Their Kids to Go to College

  A new survey reveals that Rick Santorum's anti-college statements are out of touch with most Americans.

  by Liz Dwyer

• Education

  

  How I Became the First Person in My Family to Go to College

  Arnesia Banks, a senior at Gary Comer College Prep, on how she beat the odds.

  by Arnesia Banks

• Education

  

  Should We Pay Kids To Go to School?

  The days of "learning to love learning" may be behind us. These days, education reformers are coalescing around a kitchen sink approach to...

  by Nikhil Swaminathan

• Education

  

  Farming the Desert

  Earlier this spring, a group of students from the Stanford Graduate School of Business took a trip through California and Nevada. Their mission:...

  by Robyn Beavers, Bernadette Clavier

• Lifestyle

  

  Beyond the Food Desert Mirage

  The link between food deserts and health is far from absolute, so maybe it's time to focus on the bottom line: more affordable food.

  by Peter Smith

• Business

  

  What Should We Do with Deserted Malls?

  The American enclosed shopping mall is an endangered species. With retail sales down, chains are closing. That's leaving malls without tenants....

  by Andrew Price

• Lifestyle

  

  Food Desert Solution: Mobile Supermarkets

  Could a beer truck full of groceries revolutionize the way we think about food desert solutions? In New Mexico, one retiree is trying just that.

  by Peter Smith

• GOOD Blog

  

  Porcelain To Go

  Instead of getting your daily fix of mid-commute mud in a cup you'll just as soon toss in the trash, try one of these DCI numbers. "I am not a...

  by Patrick James

• Issue 015

  

  Gallons to Go

  Knowing your car's miles per gallon isn't going to get you very far. Last summer, Richard Larrick and Jack Soll, professors at Duke's Fuqua...

  by GOOD

• Cities

  

  A Bike Race Through the Deserted Streets of Los Angeles

  Wolfpack Hustle, Los Angeles's "fastest and most notorious bicycle crew," organizes a yearly bike race along the route of the L.A. Marathon the...

  by Morgan Clendaniel