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• Technology

  

  Noah: An Online Ark

  If you're an amateur naturalist (or just like taking pictures of animals), check out this new site called noah. It's a citizen science project...

  by Andrew Price +

• Culture

  

  Arf! Yamph! Woof! Yaffle! Yawp!

  The history of describing (and transcribing) dog words into English. If your dog is anything like my dog, you've been privy to some wild, far-out...

  by Mark Peters +

• Education

  

  GOOD Video: Sharing the Wisdom of "We"

  In part five of the Future Learning series, digital platform Collaborize Classroom uses the power of collective classroom thinking.

  by GOOD +

• Business

  

  Get Your DNA Tested, But Don’t Expect a Party

  Are genetic testing companies making us obsess about the stupid stuff, while we forget to test for what matters? Spit parties, online social...

  by Ariana Green +

• Technology

  

  Scientists Create Nanoscale Robot Spiders from DNA Molecules

  According to Science Daily, a team of interdisciplinary scientists from Columbia University, Arizona State University, the University...

  by Mother Nature Network 2

• Cities

  

  Share Your Yard (or Get Your Neighbors to Share Theirs)

  More space, lower bills, and enough pooled cash to install that solar-powered hot tub—there are a lot of practical reasons to share yards with...

  by GOOD 1

• Environment

  

  Shared Earth Re-imagines Share Cropping for the Modern World

  So you want to be a gardener but lack any hint of a green thumb? Have excess available land in need of a nurturing gardener to till the area?...

  by Alicia Capetillo +

• Cities

  

  LOOK: To Share and Share Alike

  If you have some grass in your front yard, a lawnmower is a valuable asset-you know, for the five to 10 minutes of actual clipping it does during...

  by Patrick James 1

• Business

  

  How to Do Good and Prove It: Integrate Social Impact in Your Nonprofit's DNA

  Philanthropist Kevin Starr demands great ideas, scalability, and eight word mission statements. It's all part of a Design for Impact approach.

  by Alex Goldmark +

• GOOD Blog

  

  Swine Flu: We Went a Little Crazy But We Didn't Die

  Today, Harper's takes a look back at the swine flu hysteria that dominated the week of April 27th: "Swine flu, renamed under pork-lobby...

  by Andrew Price +

• Environment

  What Would We Find If We Looked Through Your Trash? The Community Answers

  by Hillary Newman +

• Lifestyle

  

  Hustlin': The Rise of the Privileged Poor

  “Making it” isn't the same as it used to be, so what exactly does “faking it” accomplish?

  by A Wolfe +

• News

  

  So We Don't Torture (Anymore). But Do We Prosecute?

  Last Thursday, Obama released memos from the Office of Legal Counsel that detailed the "enhanced interrogation techniques" used on some detainees...

  by Andrew Price 1

• Design

  

  How Might We Increase Comfort as We Navigate Uncertainty?

  Anyone who engages with new ideas must develop a certain level of comfort with uncertainty. Once an organization takes a step beyond what it...

  by Aaron Sklar +

• Environment

  

  We Can Save the Fish (But Only if We Try to)

  Back in 2006, the Canadian marine biologist Boris Worm authored a controversial study that warned that we could literally run out of fish by...

  by Andrew Price +

• Lifestyle

  

  We Quit Smoking and All We Got Was this Lousy Diabetes

  According to an Annals of Internal Medicine report, quitting smoking can increase the risk of an onset of type 2 diabetes. The conclusion was...

  by Patrick James 1

• Lifestyle

  

  Stuff It: How We Got Rid of All the Things We Didn't Need

  One couple describes its years-long battle to purge their home of the stuff they don't need.

  by Cara Kitagawa-Sellers, douglasjsellers, Matthew Beck +

• Lifestyle

  

  The Vicious Cycle of Status Envy: Why We Buy Things We Can't Afford

  Retail therapy may be a quick fix to boost our sense of status, but in the end, it kicks us when we're down.

  by Nona Willis Aronowitz +

• Business

  

  We Need to Change How We Drill for Oil

  Our nation is being hit by the worst environmental disaster we've ever experienced. Upwards of 100,000 barrels of oil are streaming into the Gulf...

  by Mother Nature Network 2

• Environment

  

  Cleaning up BP's Mess: "We've Hit Oil, But We Ain't Gonna Be Rich"

  Sachi Cunninghman, a friend of GOOD, reported, shot, and edited this excellent video portrait of a Cambodian fisherman named Phan Plork who's...

  by Andrew Price +