The Year in Rights: Where We Advanced and Where We Fell Back in 2011

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• Cities

  

  Are We In a Period of Irrational Exuberance or Unusual Creativity in Architecture?

  Will the starchitect era that produced insanely tall buildings like the 2,717-foot Burj Khalifa  and a surfeit of "green luxury" highrises be...

  by Allison Arieff

• Culture

  

  Image of the Day: Those Who Fell in Tucson, Arizona

  This is a screenshot of a photo collection of the victims who died in Saturday's tragic shooting.

  by Patrick James

• GOOD Blog

  

  We Go Back To School

  Last week GOOD and City Year got together to paint a playground at a school in MacArthur park. It always blows our minds how rewarding it is to...

  by Andrew Price

• Lifestyle

  

  Modernist Cuisine: The Epic New Kitchen Manual That Offers New Ways of Visualizing Familiar Foods

  A massive six-volume culinary opus makes a strong case for a little science to go with your cooking.

  by Peter Smith

• Environment

  

  Should We Teach Farming in Schools?

  A high school chemistry teacher has an interesting (and cheesy) open letter to his students in Energy Bulletin. He takes stock of a changing...

  by Siobhan O'Connor

• Culture

  

  Are We In Steelers Country?

  You know you're in Western Pennsylvania when you wake up to giant busts of Steelers in your hotel room.

  by MacKenzie Fegan

• Environment

  

  Bundy to Concord: Ban Bottled Water, We've Got Your Back

  As we've mentioned, the town of Concord, Massachusetts, recently passed a ban on bottled water, but they're getting some static from the...

  by Andrew Price

• Cities

  

  It's Time for GOOD LA Summer Break. We'll Be Back Soon!

  GOOD LA is taking vacation.

  by GOOD

• GOOD Blog

  

  Why Don't We Do It In The Road?

  Apparently, the Telegraph has the sex-with-inanimate objects beat on lock. Let's look at some of the recent news: This man has had sex with 1,000...

  by Morgan Clendaniel

• GOOD Blog

  

  What Can We Do About Garbage In Space?

  This is something we've been hearing about quite a bit lately, especially after the collision last month. Well, these British scientists have some...

  by Siobhan O'Connor

• GOOD Blog

  

  The Earthquake in Italy: How Can We Help?

  By now you've likely heard about the devastating news from L'Aquila, Italy: a 6.3 magnitude quake that has resulted in the deaths of at least 150...

  by Patrick James

• Design

  

  How Might We Measure in the Appropriate Timeframe?

  These short-term metrics are going to kill this great idea... We need to give it more time.... We'll just have to wait and see... It's...

  by Ryan Jacoby

• Business

  

  We Have a Cool Million More Millionaires in America

  According to a recent Spectrum Group study, there are 7.8 million millionaire households in America as of 2009, up from a paltry 6.7 million...

  by Patrick James

• News

  

  Are We in for Another Government Shutdown?

  Remember back in the mid-1990s when the federal government completely stopped all "non-essential services" as a result of a budget-related game...

  by Andrew Price

• Environment

  

  Should We Follow the Dutch and Give Land Back to the Flooding Mississippi River?

  Rather than battle rivers with expensive dikes and levees and canals, the Dutch give them more room to flow freely. Maybe we could learn from them.

  by Ben Jervey

• News

  

  Do We Have the Best Health Care System in the World?

  Some prominent politicians are out there saying that we have the "best health care system in the world." Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) just said...

  by Andrew Price

• Business

  What Startups Should We Keep a Lookout for in 2010?

  by GOOD

• Environment

  

  Should We Burn the Oil Spilled in the Gulf of Mexico?

  The other day Reno wrote about the explosion on an oil rig that caused an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. With the equivalent of 1,000 barrels of...

  by Patrick James

• News

  

  Why We Need Food Trucks in a Recession

  These trucks are tailor made for an economic downturn, which is why we should be mobilizing the mobile food movement.

  by Nona Willis Aronowitz

• News

  

  We Shouldn’t Pay Africans to Die in Iraq

  "I met them in Sierra Leone. Former rebels, shopkeeper, barbers–now calling themselves Iraq vets."

  by anonymous