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Culture
Portlandia: We Put Birds on Things
Portland, "a city where young people go to retire," is the star of a new series on IFC. Will any car-driving carnivores be watching?
Culture
Park Fighting in Portland: "Less Talking, More Stabbing"
We are entering the prime season for public park recreation: Across the nation, people are oiling their Frisbees and tightening up their cornhole...
Environment
Frisco Versus Portland: Who Will Win the EV Grid Race?
The electric heat is on. The left coast's two most prominent bastions of progressive culture are caught in a race to build the nation's first...
Cities
See How Groups Across the Country Celebrated GOOD's Cities Issue
Last week we held our second-ever GOOD Meetup, with simultaneous gatherings all over the world discussing the latest issue of our magazine.
Environment
Portland's Green Bike Boxes: Clever Solution or False Sense of Safety?
After a series of bike-auto accidents, including several deaths, the city of Portland, Oregon, took action, installing 14 green bike boxes at city...
The Community Board
Child Sex-trade in Portland? A citywide effort to put an end to a growing problem
Portland is often placed on a pedestal as the environmentally-conscious, socially-aware modern American city. In many ways, the city lives up to...
Cities
The GOOD 100: The People of Portland
Trailblazers We declare that the residents of the City of Roses are doing more than their fair share of innovation, because: 1) They live in...
Design
The Best Commuter Bike Ever
Portland is holding an event called Oregon Manifest at the moment. It's a six-week series of events celebrating "the art, craft and community of...
Cities
The Sound of Six Refugee Populations
In our new series, The [Un]Observed on GOOD, we partner with the The [Un]Observed, a radio magazine that brings you candid conversations and...
Cities
Transparency: Biking to Work
nThe battle over which North American city is the best for biking is fierce and- most likely-unresolvable. Our latest Transparency will tell...
News
The GOOD 100: The Great Electric Vehicle Race
Portland vs. San Francisco Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco seem locked in an ongoing battle to become the left coast's left-most city. To...
The Community Board
re:active billboard project with Design Ignites Change
re:activekicked off our billboard design project with Design Ignites Change here in Portland, OR on Saturday. We are very excited to use the...
Design
Adult Soap Box Derby
Before there was NASCAR, there was box car. Soap box derbies, at the peak of their popularity in the 1950s, provided all-American kids with an...
First meeting for the "Create, Don't Hate" billboard project
Seven designers/design studios connected with seven youth in a speed-dating session to getting to know each other, fast. Five (or so) minutes per...
Environment
Pushing the Limits
In Oregon, radical antisprawl laws aim to save the state's bucolic paradises. But with land-hungry suburbs on the prowl, can these goats be...
News
The Great Electric Vehicle Race: San Francisco Versus Portland
Awesome. This feud between San Francisco and Portland over electric car infrastructure bragging rights (mentioned earlier on GOOD here) has turned...
Design
Portland Creatives Find New Ways to Work Together
Portland, Oregon-the misty evergreen Shangri-La for the young, the creative, and the progressive-has an interesting problem. Its miles of bike...
Design
Good City Design: The Bike-Friendly, Anti-Homeowner Edition
Meet Rick Potestio: Portland architect and loudmouth. He's apparently a veritable celebrity in his hometown-he's been called one of the design...
