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• Business

  What Perks Do You Wish Your Company Had? The Community Answers

  by Hillary Newman

• Business

  

  Project: Design Your Dream Job and We'll Help Make It Happen

  Geoffrey Canada, founder of the Harlem Children's Zone, offers advice on finding your dream job. Tell us about yours, and we'll help make it happen.

  by Alex Goldmark

• Business

  

  Hunting Gazelles: Figuring Out What Makes Companies—and Jobs—Grow

  A disproportionate share of jobs are created not by big or small business, but by fast-growing new businesses dubbed "gazelles."

  by Tim Fernholz

• Business

  

  How Oliberté, the Anti-TOMS, Makes Shoes and Jobs in Africa

  “At Oliberté, we believe Africa can compete on a global scale, but it needs a chance."

  by Tate Watkins

• GOOD Blog

  

  Scarier Job Chart: There Are Really Very Few Jobs

  I don't mean to be a downer or a fear monger, but this chart is simply scary, especially compared to what the already scary job chart showed...

  by Morgan Clendaniel

• Culture

  

  Scary: There Are Now Five Job Seekers for Every Job Opening

  Maybe job seekers would be more motivated if there were actually, y'know, jobs.

  by Cord Jefferson

• Business

  

  Scary Jobs Chart: There Are No Jobs

  Many economic signs indicate that the recession is starting to improve. We ostensibly got another one today: The government released numbers...

  by Morgan Clendaniel

• Culture

  

  Justin Bieber Will Be a Man Before America's Jobs Return

  A study from the Brookings Institution anticipates more than a decade of jobs struggling before we return to pre-recession levels.

  by Cord Jefferson

• 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

• Business

  

  How to Turn the Job You Have Into the Job You Want

  Expecting someone to have dreamed up your ideal job is like expecting someone to read your mind.

  by GOOD

• Culture

  

  Feel-Good Story of the Day: Homeless Man with Amazing Voice Gets a Job

  In a heart-warming display of the power of the internet, the homeless man with the golden voice from yesterday's viral video now has job offers.

  by Morgan Clendaniel

• Lifestyle

  

  Make a Place to Make Stuff: 6 Creative Workspaces For Your DIY Crafting

  How to design your own dedicated space for crafting.

  by Becca Nath

• Business

  

  English Artist Makes a Toaster from Scratch to Make a Point

  An English artist named Thomas Thwaites is trying to make a toaster from scratch and he's not kidding around. He's extracting the metal himself...

  by Andrew Price

• Business

  

  Will You Pledge to Create One New Job?

  The One Job for America campaign is asking all businesses to hire one new person, and spread the word. Will you help?

  by Alex Goldmark

• Design

  

  Green Top 10

  The AIA just announced it's list of top green building projects of the last year. It's worth a looksie..

  by Anonymous

• Design

  

  Top Green Buildings Of 2007

  Belatedly in honor of Earth Day, the American Institute of Architects has announced America's top green projects for 2007. Check out a lot of...

  by Morgan Clendaniel

• GOOD Blog

  

  The Top 100 Public Intellectuals

  Foreign Policy and Prospect have released a list of the "Top 100 Public Intellectuals." The list is dominated by political scientists, economists,...

  by Andrew Price

• Business

  

  The Top 100 Corporate Polluters

  One word: plastics. Well, it's those and greases and lubricants and the rest of DuPont's messy chemical products, actually, that have landed the...

  by Andrew Price

• Business

  

  Mountains to Keep Their Tops

  People who like mountains got some good news today: Bank of America has agreed to phase out the financing of companies that practice "mountain top...

  by Andrew Price

• GOOD Blog

  

  Top Five Scary Technologies of 2008

  How Stuff Works has a rundown of the Top Five Scary Technologies of 2008. They're not actually terrifying (and a few aren't technologies), but...

  by Patrick James