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Design
Submissions: Crowdsourced Picture Show About Buildings
A collaborative Picture Show created by none other than you, the GOOD community, about influential neighborhood building.
Lifestyle
Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
It turns out most of us value nearby stores and parks rather than McMansions. Luckily, that's probably where we're headed.
Cities
How Well Do You Know Your Neighbors?
In an age where online communities often get more attention than our real-life ones, what's the role of the neighborhood?
Cities
Home Elephant: An App to Help Neighbors Help Neighbors
A new app called Home Elephant is kind of like an online neighborhood-watch-plus-bulletin-board for hyperlocal communities.
Design
Winner Announced: Crowdsourced Picture Show About Buildings
GOOD community members picked a photo of an abandoned asylum in Michigan as the winner of our Crowdsourced Picture Show About Buildings.
News
In Praise of Staying Put
There's something very American about mobility. We like our freedom to roam, to follow opportunity, to move westward as the saying goes. We like...
Business
Pando Projects: An (Aspiring) Support Network for Community Projects
Pando Project wants to help you improve your neighborhood-with a mentor, money, training. But right now, Pando needs help to start.
Cities
Picture Show: Crowdsourcing the World's Greatest Imaginary Neighborhood
Imagining the ideal street What if all your favorite places from around the world—that taco stand on the Mexican border, that hat store in...
Cities
Watch a Video of GOOD LA's Launch Weekend
Back in April, we threw a big, three-day event to celebrate Los Angeles and the people who are moving the city forward. Here's what it looked like.
Education
Schools Are Helping Devastated Japanese Communities Recover
Students say that getting back to something familiar—school—helps them deal with the stress of living in shelters and having lost loved ones.
Education
How to Save Multiculturalism
"Multiculturalism" isn't a bad word. Embracing the differences diverse people bring to the table can create endless educational opportunities.
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...
Design
Call for Submissions: Neighborhood Gems Photo Project
Last week we announced that we're looking for help creating The Neighborhoods Issue of GOOD magazine. One element of that is a photo project we're...
News
Bagster: Dumpster in a Bag
Bagster, the dumpster in a bag, presents a solution for big clean-ups that's aren't quite big enough for a dumpster.
Culture
The Amazing Adventures of the Traveling Advice Booth
Last summer I found myself at the legendary Burning Man festival, the eclectic arts experience extraordinaire in the heart of the Nevada desert....
Culture
The Amazing Adventures of the Traveling Advice Booth: Part Two
This is part two in a three-part series in which Leon Logothetis, a global adventurer and the host of the National Geographic Channel's Amazing...
Technology
GOOD for America: Open WiFi Networks
GOOD's Cord Jefferson went on The Dylan Ratigan Show to advance the idea that Americans should open their WiFi networks to their neighbors.
Culture
NeighborGoods Goes National
Last fall we wrote about the launch of NeighborGoods, the Craigslist-and-Freecycle-inspired Los Angeles-based sharing network launched by Micki...
