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• Environment

  

  Year in Review 2010: The Year in Clean Energy

  It was a record year for solar power, but we also had the Deepwater Horizon spill. A look back at the major events in energy in 2010.

  by Andrew Price

• Lifestyle

  

  Year in Review 2010: The Year in Food

  From foraging to First Lady's anti-obesity campaign, the year in good eating, drinking, and thinking.

  by Peter Smith

• Environment

  

  Who Knew? Kevin Costner's Been Working on Oil Spill Cleaning Gizmo For Years

  So apparently Kevin Costner (yes, that Kevin Costner) has spent millions of dollars over the last eight years developing a centrifuge-like device...

  by Andrew Price

• Design

  

  The Work of a Design Researcher

  design mind on GOOD is a series exploring the power of design by the editors of design mind magazine. This is the first installment in a...

  by Denise Gershbein

• Design

  

  Winner: Design an Infographic About Work

  We're happy to announce the winner of our Work infographic contest, part of our Work issue brainstorming. Bryan Connor's great piece on how we...

  by GOOD

• Cities

  

  Ideas for Cities: Decentralized Design Hubs and Work Centers

  Decentralized Design Hubs and Work Centers Neighborhoods could function as local “offices” by creating workplaces for citizens. Employers would...

  by GOOD

• Design

  

  Good Design Daily: An LED Lightbulb that Lasts 22.8 Years

  A new energy-efficient lightbulb by GE is an attractive LED that lasts 20 times longer than an incandescent bulb, using 77 percent less power.

  by Alissa Walker

• Education

  

  Mind the Gap Year: Global Citizen Year Turns 18-Year-Olds into Future Leaders

  Abby Falik wants a year abroad between high school and college to be as mainstream a pursuit as Teach for America.

  by Zak Stone

• Lifestyle

  

  Boston Is the City for this Year's Design and Health Congress

  Featured speakers include Harvard School of Public Health Dean Julio Frenk and Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

  by Ann Marie Gardner

• News

  

  What a Mess: $6.6 Billion in Cash Presumed Lost in Iraq

  As America's economy continues to flag, it might infuriate you to know that we're literally losing billions in a far-off desert.

  by Cord Jefferson

• Environment

  

  More Oil Spilled in Nigeria Every Year than in the Gulf of Mexico

  From Boing Boing comes this video, by Al Jazeera, which offers one look at a legal battle between a resident of the polluted Niger Delta and...

  by Patrick James

• Education

  

  Year in Review 2010: Urban School District Leadership in Transition

  Almost every major urban school districts saw leadership shakeups this year. Here are some of the biggest.

  by Liz Dwyer

• News

  

  One Night in Bangkok, 500 Years in a Refugee Camp

  Samy is in Bangkok—over 100 miles away from the one place he’s ever legally allowed to be. After Google Latitudes abruptly alerted me to the...

  by Brian Merchant

• Education

  

  Year in Review 2010: California Set the Trends in Education

  The state that brought you Lauren Conrad, the Black Eyed Peas, and gangster rap goes hard with education reform, too.

  by Liz Dwyer

• Business

  

  All In A Day's Work

  In the United States it takes the average CEO one working day to make as much money as the average worker makes in a year. It's a good thing a...

  by Anonymous

• GOOD Blog

  

  All In A Day's Work

  A lot happened today: President Clinton was impeached, Thomas Paine published American Crisis, and French singer Edith Piaf was born. With The...

  by Patrick James

• Culture

  

  The People We Said Goodbye To in 2011

  This year we say goodbye to addicts and martyrs, survivors and killers. 2011, we'll miss you and (some of) the people you took with you.

  by Zak Stone

• Culture

  

  Why Do You Work? Your Answer Might Make the Work Issue

    We're currently assembling our Work issue, which looks at the changing role of work in our lives; what our work says about us; and how we can...

  by GOOD

• Business

  

  Working (and Not Working): Updating Studs Terkel for the Recession

  We took inspiration from Studs Terkel and spoke with 10 people-five with full-time jobs and five without-about what work means to them in 2010.

  by Thomas Golianopoulos

• Business

  

  Working Better: How To Make Your Gadgets Work For You

  More often than not, we are at the mercy of our machines simply because we let ourselves be. It's a habit-and a bad one.

  by GOOD