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Business
Skechers's Amazing Toms Shoes Rip Off
Bobs, like much like Toms, is a one syllable, generic name. Both shoes are little canvas slip-ons with cute patterns. See the pattern?
Business
141 Eyewear: Buy One Pair of Glasses; Give One Pair. One for One.
The model for the 141 Eyewear company is in its name: You buy one pair of their well-designed frames; they give a pair to someone who needs them.
Business
When Are the Best Times to Buy a Car, Boat, or TV?
Savings.com's "When Are the Best Times to Buy" infographic breaks down the ideal days, months, and seasons for making various purchases.
Technology
A $10 Defense Against Vampire Electronics
The Belkin Conserve Socket Power Timer automatically shuts off power-even standby power-to electronics.
Environment
Ebay Will Release Reusable Shipping Containers
Ebay will release 100,000 reusable shipping containers this October in a pilot program that aims to reduce packaging waste. From...
Lifestyle
Your “Nitrite-Free” Meats Are Full of Nitrites
In a world where organic “nitrite-free” meats are anything but, think twice before you slap some meat on the grill this weekend. Nitrogen...
Design
Boxer Briefs, Boy Shorts, and Other Artistic Undies for a Cause
PACT, the sustainable underwear company backed by designer Yves Béhar, unveils its new line, which supports the nonprofit Creative Growth, the...
Environment
The DBA 98 Biodegradable Pen
How many pens have you used in your lifetime? One hundred? One thousand? Ten thousand? (Maybe.) Most if not all of those discarded tubes of...
Culture
Turning the Literary Canon into Artful Wall Posters
What you're looking at is a clever arrangement of every word of Franz Kafka's classic 1915 novella The Metamorphosis, in which the traveling...
GOOD Blog
When to Buy What: A Helpful Chart
Lifehacker has created a handy chart detailing when you should buy various things. Generally, the time to buy something is when sales of that...
Environment
What's the Impact of Your Clothing?
The Wall Street Journal reports on what sounds like a boon to shoppers who want to make informed decisions on what they buy: A group of roughly...
Environment
Moral Licensing in the Environmental Economy
Over the weekend, The Washington Post ran an editorial titled "Why Going Green Won't Make You Better or Save You Money," which outlined the...
Lifestyle
Super Sensitive About Localism
A recent New York Times piece, "The Pride and Prejudice of ‘Local,'" got me thinking about my own locavorism—or as it is increasingly being...
Culture
The World Cup, in Awesome Poster Form
Our friends at Hyperakt (you'll be seeing their work here soon) have made this awesome poster of the World Cup as a radial bracket. They're...
Environment
Could You Live for a Month with Only Six Items of Clothing?
The premise is simple: A group of people from around the globe all pledge to wear only six items of clothing for one month—June 21 to July...
Lifestyle
Warby Parker: A Truly Visionary Eyewear Company
Warby Parker makes beautifully crafted eyeglasses in a number of classic styles and sells them (lenses included) for $95. While it would be...
Culture
Paper-Feet: Sustainable Sandals that Don't Cost an Arm or a Leg
The trend of barely-more-than-barefoot shoes has involved some cognitive dissonance: They haven't tended to be priced that way. For Jimmy Tomczak,...
Design
What's Inside Counts: Sex Toys and Design
How design is empowering us to feel good, from the inside out.When we think about good design, sex shops—with their neon lights, blacked-out...
