Cities
LOOK: Guerilla Gardening with Pocket Change
When Daniel Phillips and Kim Karlsrud inherited five old cherry red candy machines, they considered filling them with sweets and placing them...
Cities
How To: Turn a Payphone Into a Library
Have an old phone booth in your neighborhood sitting empty? Fill it with books! Book booths are an easy way to acquire new books (for free),...
Cities
Q&A: A West Point for Community Organizing
Since its first boot camp in 2006 the New Organizing Institute has trained more than 700 organizers across the country in leveraging online tools...
Cities
LOOK: Report Cards Earn Street Cred on Wheels
scraper bike | scra-per bik | informal? noun. a customized bicycle featuring oversized wheels, foil-encased spokes and a spray painted...
Culture
How To: Get Your Op-Ed Published
Did you know that over 80 percent of the nation's op-eds are written by men? Open any newspaper from the Wall Street Journal to The New York...
Cities
HOW TO: Grow an Edible School Garden
For a lot of families, growing their own garden is something akin to that big trip abroad: a great idea in theory, but hard to actually make...
Cities
How To: 10 Ideas to Blow Up Your Block Party
Summertime is just around the bend and you know what that means? Block party! If you live in Youngstown, Ohio, or the San Fernando Valley, no...
Culture
How To: Save Your Local Library
With recent cuts in city and state funding, libraries are an increasingly endangered species. From Charlotte to Los Angeles (and lots of places...
Cities
LOOK: A Tiny, Tech Savvy Texas Town
Manor Texas, population 6,500, is probably not the first place that comes to mind when discussing the future of augmented reality or open source...
Cities
A Farm in Every Window
Barely a year old, the Windowfarms project is art come to life. First researched and developed in the South Williamsburg kitchen of co-founder...
Cities
How to Turn Your Streets into Sidewalks
What if streets belonged to people and not cars? In Los Angeles County, sidewalks were often constructed before roads. Sidewalks were intended as...
Lifestyle
How to Turn a Vacant Lot into a Pizza Parlor
How many parties have you walked into only to find the living room empty and a crowded kitchen, everyone huddled near the stove or around the...
Cities
Shop Globally, Bank Locally
For most of us, choosing a bank usually comes down to two things: who has the most ATMs and how close is the nearest branch. We might consider...
Cities
Project: City R&D
Back in December, GOOD, The Public Studio, and Sheridan/Hawkes teamed up to launch the first City R&D event in Los Angeles. The goal? To...
News
A Community Hub for a Neighborhood Reborn
In 1925, a 22-year-old busboy slipped three poems to acclaimed poet Vachel Lindsay while he was dining at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington,...
Cities
How to Swap Oil Changes for Spanish Lessons
Timebanks are an easy (and free!) way to increase your community’s wealth. Need someone to walk your dog or fix your sink? Have some extra time...
Cities
The Participation Problem Solver
GOOD talks civic engagement with the White House's Sonal Shah. The Obama Administration's Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation is...
Cities
Get a Crosswalk for Your Neighborhood In Six-ish Weeks
We’ve all been there before: standing on a street trying to cross with no traffic light in sight. Cars speed past and you try in vain to dash...
