Project: Islands for Islands

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on October 8, 2009 at 1:00 pm

Fix a traffic island in your city and we’ll send you to an island in the Caribbean.

For this project we’re asking you to pick an ugly traffic island in your city and spruce it up—either in Photoshop or in reality. Add a bench or a sculpture, plant some flowers, whatever you can think of to make that neglected pedestrian junkspace more hospitable.

The winner will get a vacation to the Caribbean island of Dominica. Read on for…

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Project: Message in a Bottle

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on May 22, 2009 at 10:43 pm

In 1977, a mere two years before Sting penned his classic hit, the folks at NASA were busy preparing their own intergalactic “message in a bottle.” The bottle, in this case, was the Voyager spacecraft, a vessel on a theoretically endless mission to explore the outer reaches of space. The message: a golden record (the most advanced storage medium of the time) containing samples of our planet and culture, from popular music to human brain waves.…

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Project: Design a Livable Street

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on April 7, 2009 at 12:07 am

America’s streets leave a lot to be desired. As Carly Clark and Aaron Naparstek write in the latest issue of GOOD, “For the most part, [traffic engineers] viewed the city from behind a windshield and saw the street as a problem to be solved for automobiles. The result is the America city that most of us know today: sprawling, traffic-choked, hostile to pedestrians and cyclists, dependent on a vast, never-ending flow of cheap oil, and deeply…

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Project 014: Nominees, Please

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on December 10, 2008 at 9:03 pm

Sometimes, a hero’s work goes without praise. But here at GOOD, we think that’s a shame. We think that the people who are making strides toward excellence deserve a pat on the back and a round of applause. And we think that you deserve to know about them. Beginning this year, we’re assembling an annual.. Read & Discuss

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Project: Intercontinental Breakfast

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on October 28, 2008 at 7:49 pm

What do you eat in the morning? Cheerios? Nutella on toast? Haggis? Your breakfast says a lot about you. Or at least that’s the assumption behind our new project, “Intercontinental Breakfast.” We’re asking readers from around the globe to send us pictures of their morning meals.

Get the details and see all the contributions at Intercontinental Breakfast Flickr group.

We’re going to be picking a few shots to publish in GOOD: 013. Your breakfast could be famous!

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Project 013: What’s Your Reason?

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on October 14, 2008 at 2:05 pm

My friends and I launched Glassbooth last summer with a mission of positively impacting the 2008 elections. A Democrat, a Republican, a Libertarian, and a socialist, we had all become equally dismayed at the state of political discourse in America. Bad ideas and falsities are everywhere. Could it be.. Read & Discuss

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Project 012: Help Someone Else Teach for America

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on September 30, 2008 at 3:37 pm

For Project 012 we asked you to think of ways your local public schools could be improved. David Shepard proposes we give teachers an extra pair of hands. Details after the jump. "I recently finished my undergraduate degree in Economics and Urban Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, where.. Read & Discuss

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Project 001: If You Can Read This…

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on September 17, 2008 at 1:05 pm

The bumper sticker is one of the most ubiquitous and pithy forms of political expression. For the 2006 midterm elections we asked you to create an original bumper sticker on the subject of voting. Your submissions blew us away. So we’re bringing Project 001 back for the 2008 presidential election. You’re invited to get involved. Guidelines and submissions below.

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Project 012: Project Urban Rain Garden

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on September 12, 2008 at 4:21 pm

For Project 012 we asked you for your ideas on improving local schools. Daniel sent us this chronicle from Victoria, British Columbia. Working on a city stormwater management project in Seattle, Daniel realized that adding natural features to a public space made it more inviting to children. That insight.. Read & Discuss

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Project 012: Wide World Partners

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on September 5, 2008 at 12:34 am

For Project 012, we asked how you would improve the schools in your neighborhood. Tereza Coraggio sent this update from sunny Santa Cruz where she’s working to bridge that age-old rift between public and private school kids:

“In Santa Cruz, CA, I’m networking together students from the public, private, and charter high schools to raise money and awareness for global issues. Although we’re still very much in the formative phase, here are some of the plans…

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