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Could Charging People for Uneaten Food in Restaurants Help Us Stop Wasting It?
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New Research Says Parenting Makes You Happy—If You're a Dad
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Facebook Doesn't Need Your Money; Invest in Africa Instead
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One Student's Path From the South Side to the Ivy League
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A Geodesic Dome Promises Fish from the Sky
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As romantic as the ocean is to a desert girl, it's totally worthless in the water conversation.
We just sent the Water issue to print. In this latest issue of the magazine we tackle such questions as: Is water important? (Yes, very.) Do we...
Our upcoming Water issue is bound and it's looking good. Here, to whet your appetite, is a visual interpretation of the issue's theme (Water, if...
News flash: People in America don't know jack. Or people do bad on science tests. Half full vs. half empty. Either way, in preparation for a new...
Looks like the bottled-water-as-accessory-of-the-evil thing has truly taken off (that, or the recession is making more people take to the tap)....
Enjoying bottled water is not as new a trend as many believe. In the Roman Empire, earthen jars filled with naturally carbonated water from...
In our ongoing effort here at GOOD (Casey's Crusade, as I like to call it) to make you feel slightly bad about drinking bottled water, and as...

A refreshing look into the peculiar origins of the carbon dioxide bubbles in our drinks.

At long last, the EPA has decided to limit the amount of perchlorate, a component of rocket fuel, in our drinking water.

One of the hazards of hydraulic fracturing could be a toxic food and water supply—and not just in the epicenter of the natural gas boom.

The financial bubble. The housing bubble. And now for a refreshingly different bubbly for the new year—free bubbly tap water.

In this issue we celebrate the people taking on the energy challenges of the 21st century.
We believe in the power of media, so it's hard when we see what a mess it has become.
Getting to know the world's other superpower.
Frozen drinks with little umbrellas have their place-usually involving a white-sand beach. But when inveterate wanderer Hans Christian...
It's easy to shake your head at the oft-repeated statistics about how many kids don't know what a verb is, or can't find the United States on...
What's on the table at Copenhagen? End Goal The long-term goals of preserving a habitable planet will effectively be boiled down to a...
The green issue epidemic sweeping the publishing world seems to have taken hold at Condé Nast. First Vanity Fair, and now Wired, both of which...
GOOD 010: The China Issue is on newsstands today and MSNBC's Erin Burnett already has a copy (here's video from Morning Joe). Issue 010 features...
This illustration originally appeared as the Graphic Statement for GOOD Issue 018: The Slow Issue. You can see the full image here. You can...