The San Francisco fire department still uses wooden ladders.
The San Francisco fire department still uses wooden ladders.

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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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A Geodesic Dome Promises Fish from the Sky
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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Companies Value Internships, So Why Don't They Hire Interns?
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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Infographic: Understanding Social Enterprise
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Is it Time to 'Occupy Teach For America'?
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork
We can save more energy than Canada uses in a year with better appliances and insulation. So what's the holdup? We waste a massive amount of...
On Sunday, June 13, the people of Lexington, Kentucky, gathered at the Blue Grass Airport to bike, walk, and run on the new 4,000 foot runway....

Watch the coolest camera still in development as it's thrown high up in the air.
Our friends at 826 NYC know their way around a compelling fundraiser. This year's "Revenge of the Book Eaters" will take place on Tuesday,...

CicLAvia has scheduled three more dates in 2011! Help them open L.A. streets by coming to a party co-hosted by GOOD LA.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (whose stated mission is to "to sustain the health, diversity and productivity of the public lands for the use...
Mark "407th richest man in the world" Cuban has a plan to jump-start our flagging economy, and it doesn't involve Tim Geithner or $838 billion. It...
The naming of sexual excess-from satyromaniac to hypersexual disorder. Though he's still an amateur by the standards of Wilt Chamberlain, who...
John Wood, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Room to Read, left Microsoft to change the world by building libraries in developing regions.
In 1998, John Wood was a dedicated Microsoft executive who needed a vacation. That year, while trekking through Nepal, he encountered a village ...

Shwood makes hip sunglasses out of wood to celebrate the inherent uniqueness in natural materials. Every pair is a little different.

This morning, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in what is quite possibly the biggest global warming-related case in the Court's history....
Two big paper companies are pushing to bring fast-growing genetically-modified Australian Eucalyptus trees to the southeastern United States. The...
As you probably heard, this week Wikileaks published a disturbing video of American soldiers accidentally (and recklessly) killing civilians and a...

Founded in Italy and based in Los Angeles, WeWood is selling these attractive Miyota watches-made from reclaimed wood-for $119.
It used to be that if you suffered a serious bone injury (or bone loss), a doctor would replace or augment a portion of your skeleton with metal....
This is the sixth post in The Back Garden Project, one GOOD community member's effort to turn a neglected corner of the city into a thriving...
A glimpse into how deforestation and poor infrastructure have left Haiti still recovering from a natural disaster one year later.
Check out an amazing Flickr slideshow of a pig slaughter house after it burned down, as they cart away the pig carcasses. Maybe not for the faint...
Blackwater USA, the private security firm with contracts and operations in Iraq, is in big trouble these days. They're under investigation for a...