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Cities
Submissions: Create a Local's Guide to Your City
We asked you to create a guide to your city to highlight the special places out-of-towners often miss.
Lifestyle
Zero-Packaging Grocery Store to Open in Austin, Texas
Hold the packaging: Austin, Texas will get the country's first "package-free, zero waste grocery store" this fall.
Education
Texas Gutting Education But Spending $4 Billion to Widen 28-Mile Highway
The Lone Star State: Still not convinced that schools need money.
Education
Texas to Layoff 100,000 Teachers While Giving Millions to Formula One Racing
The Lone Star State plans to fund a race track instead of schools. Really.
Lifestyle
Idea(COMM): Combining Food, Data, and Community at SXSW
This year's SXSW will feature an interactive farm-to-table lunch, sponsored by GOOD—and you're invited!
Business
Mango: A Bank for the Bankless
Mango Money isn't like your bank. It's making life easier for those Americans who are normally underserved by banks.
Design
The Edge of Progress Tour: Ephemeral Sculptures and Sustainable Building in Austin
In Austin, GOOD's MacKenzie Fegan met an artist working on a series of ephemeral sculptures and an architect at the forefront of sustainable design.
News
The Edge of Progress Tour Comes to a Close
Stella and I said our teary goodbyes today.
News
Outtakes: The Edge of Progress Tour, Week Two
Our second week on the Edge of Progress tour was all about the Southwest as we drove through Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.
Business
Hate Your Bank? Try Austin's Mango
Mango was developed to provide financial services to the poor, but it might be the future for all those who are sick of banking as usual.
Cities
Visiting Austin's Giant Solar SunFlowers
On our way out of Austin, we stopped at SunFlowers, the city's largest public art installation.
News
The Edge of Progress Edge, Day 11
That's the Texas State Capitol building poking out from behind the trees.
Design
Thomas Bercy in Austin
Today I talked with the architect Thomas Bercy, one of the principles of Austin's Bercy Chen studio in his house, which he designed.
News
The Edge of Progress Edge, Day Nine
While Stella can't vote, she did show up at the polls in Austin, Texas, today.
News
The Edge of Progress Tour: Week One in Video
From New York to Chicago to St. Louis to Memphis to Dallas to Austin: This is the first week of the Edge of Progress Tour in video.
News
Halloween in Texas
Happy Halloween from the Edge of Progress tour!
Lifestyle
This Donut Is Bigger Than Your Head
Everything is bigger in Texas, even the donuts.
News
The Route of the Edge of Progress Tour
There it is. All 3,888 miles of it. We roll out on Monday and we'll be in San Francisco on November 9. See you along the way.
