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Is Obesity a National Security Problem?
To defend our way of life abroad we may need to reconsider how much junk food it involves at home.
It’s not every day that former generals and admirals speak out about children’s health and education. But last Thursday was one of those days. According to Mission: Readiness, a nonprofit, bipartisan organization led by retired senior military leaders, 75 percent of 17 to 24 year olds cannot enlist in the military because they fail to graduate high…
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Prison and College: California’s Ridiculous Priorities
The University of California is an awesome institution. Its ten campuses give 150,000 college students a high-quality public education every year and UC Berkeley, UCSF, and Boalt Hall can compete with any super-expensive private school on quality and reputation. UC Davis is largely responsible for California’s fantastic wine, and for some reason UCLA is crazy famous in Asia. It’s a model for public higher education.
But the University of California has been getting less awesome because…
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Prison and College: California’s Ridiculous Priorities
The University of California is an awesome institution. Its ten campuses give 150,000 college students a high-quality public education every year and UC Berkeley, UCSF, and Boalt Hall can compete with any super-expensive private school on quality and reputation. UC Davis is largely responsible for California’s fantastic wine, and for some reason UCLA is crazy famous in Asia. It’s a model for public higher education.
But the University of California has been getting less awesome because…
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What Can You Bring on the Plane With You These Holidays?
I often carry with me through airport security more than 3 ounces of toothpaste, in the hopes that I can helpfully explain to a TSA agent that toothpaste is not a gel, aerosol, or liquid, but is—by definition—a paste. Sadly, they have yet to try to take my toothpaste.
Luckily for me and all travelers, the TSA knows how complicated deciding what fits into the ever-nebulous “gel, aerosol, and liquid” category, especially with holiday specific items,…
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Environmental Writers Disagree About Obama
On Monday, Bill McKibben, the writer, environmentalist, and founder of 350.org (and, let’s not forget, GOOD 100 honoree) took to the pages of Mother Jones to express frustration with Obama’s approach to our common climate problem:
Despite the deadline of the Copenhagen conference, Obama placed energy second on his priority list, guaranteeing that health care would occupy most of the year…. And then—as with health care—he left it pretty much entirely up to Congress to write the necessary…
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Environmental Writers Disagree About Obama
On Monday, Bill McKibben, the writer, environmentalist, and founder of 350.org (and, let’s not forget, GOOD 100 honoree) took to the pages of Mother Jones to express frustration with Obama’s approach to our common climate problem:
Despite the deadline of the Copenhagen conference, Obama placed energy second on his priority list, guaranteeing that health care would occupy most of the year…. And then—as with health care—he left it pretty much entirely up to Congress to write the necessary…
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Is Newsweek’s Sarah Palin Cover Sexist?
Say what you want about the woman, this strikes me as a profoundly shady choice for a magazine cover of a political figure. Pigtails and short shorts? Come on, now.
Conservative pundits are pissed, and so is she. But maybe we all should be a little bit? Her confusing use of the third person aside, I agree with her comments. In her words (from her Facebook page):
“The choice of photo for the cover of this week’s Newsweek is…
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Waste Not, Watt Not
It’s been a bummer of a week for climate news. The Senate bill continues to languish behind health care and there have been some disconcerting rumbles that it might now be back-burnered even longer as an increasingly spineless nervous Senate focuses on jobs and deficit. And out of Singapore on Sunday we hear that Copenhagen definitely won’t produce a legally-binding agreement, but will rather be the first piece of a “one-agreement, two-step” process, the controversial (and dangerous (pdf),…
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@GOOD Readers Answer: Should President Obama Write His Own Tweets?
Today on Twitter we asked our followers (sounds a little cultish, no?) if they thought President Obama should write his own tweets. We collected some of our favorite responses below. We plan on asking a question to our Twitter faithful once a day, so if you’re not yet following @GOOD, make sure to sign up and participate in the conversation.
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Bart Stupak’s Abortion Contortion
Why the restriction on abortion in the health care bill is unfair.
Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) tussled with his party’s leadership in the House of Representatives for months before finally making an actionable threat: give me a floor vote on an abortion-restricting amendment, or I’ll kill your health care bill. Under the terms of that health care bill, uninsured Americans will be required to purchase health insurance, and the government will partially subsidize those who can’t cover…
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Is Obesity a National Security Problem?
To defend our way of life abroad we may need to reconsider how much junk food it involves at home.
It’s not every day that former generals and admirals speak out about children’s health and education. But last Thursday was one of those days. According to Mission: Readiness, a nonprofit, bipartisan organization led by retired senior military leaders, 75 percent of 17 to 24 year olds cannot enlist in the military because they fail to graduate high…
Read & Discuss
Prison and College: California’s Ridiculous Priorities
The University of California is an awesome institution. Its ten campuses give 150,000 college students a high-quality public education every year and UC Berkeley, UCSF, and Boalt Hall can compete with any super-expensive private school on quality and reputation. UC Davis is largely responsible for California’s fantastic wine, and for some reason UCLA is crazy famous in Asia. It’s a model for public higher education.
But the University of California has been getting less awesome because…
Read & Discuss
Prison and College: California’s Ridiculous Priorities
The University of California is an awesome institution. Its ten campuses give 150,000 college students a high-quality public education every year and UC Berkeley, UCSF, and Boalt Hall can compete with any super-expensive private school on quality and reputation. UC Davis is largely responsible for California’s fantastic wine, and for some reason UCLA is crazy famous in Asia. It’s a model for public higher education.
But the University of California has been getting less awesome because…
Read & Discuss
What Can You Bring on the Plane With You These Holidays?
I often carry with me through airport security more than 3 ounces of toothpaste, in the hopes that I can helpfully explain to a TSA agent that toothpaste is not a gel, aerosol, or liquid, but is—by definition—a paste. Sadly, they have yet to try to take my toothpaste.
Luckily for me and all travelers, the TSA knows how complicated deciding what fits into the ever-nebulous “gel, aerosol, and liquid” category, especially with holiday specific items,…
Read & Discuss
Environmental Writers Disagree About Obama
On Monday, Bill McKibben, the writer, environmentalist, and founder of 350.org (and, let’s not forget, GOOD 100 honoree) took to the pages of Mother Jones to express frustration with Obama’s approach to our common climate problem:
Despite the deadline of the Copenhagen conference, Obama placed energy second on his priority list, guaranteeing that health care would occupy most of the year…. And then—as with health care—he left it pretty much entirely up to Congress to write the necessary…
Read & Discuss
Environmental Writers Disagree About Obama
On Monday, Bill McKibben, the writer, environmentalist, and founder of 350.org (and, let’s not forget, GOOD 100 honoree) took to the pages of Mother Jones to express frustration with Obama’s approach to our common climate problem:
Despite the deadline of the Copenhagen conference, Obama placed energy second on his priority list, guaranteeing that health care would occupy most of the year…. And then—as with health care—he left it pretty much entirely up to Congress to write the necessary…
Read & Discuss
Waste Not, Watt Not
It’s been a bummer of a week for climate news. The Senate bill continues to languish behind health care and there have been some disconcerting rumbles that it might now be back-burnered even longer as an increasingly spineless nervous Senate focuses on jobs and deficit. And out of Singapore on Sunday we hear that Copenhagen definitely won’t produce a legally-binding agreement, but will rather be the first piece of a “one-agreement, two-step” process, the controversial (and dangerous (pdf),…
Read & Discuss
@GOOD Readers Answer: Should President Obama Write His Own Tweets?
Today on Twitter we asked our followers (sounds a little cultish, no?) if they thought President Obama should write his own tweets. We collected some of our favorite responses below. We plan on asking a question to our Twitter faithful once a day, so if you’re not yet following @GOOD, make sure to sign up and participate in the conversation.
Read & Discuss
Bart Stupak’s Abortion Contortion
Why the restriction on abortion in the health care bill is unfair.
Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) tussled with his party’s leadership in the House of Representatives for months before finally making an actionable threat: give me a floor vote on an abortion-restricting amendment, or I’ll kill your health care bill. Under the terms of that health care bill, uninsured Americans will be required to purchase health insurance, and the government will partially subsidize those who can’t cover…
Read & Discuss
Bart Stupak’s Abortion Contortion
Why the restriction on abortion in the health care bill is unfair.
Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) tussled with his party’s leadership in the House of Representatives for months before finally making an actionable threat: give me a floor vote on an abortion-restricting amendment, or I’ll kill your health care bill. Under the terms of that health care bill, uninsured Americans will be required to purchase health insurance, and the government will partially subsidize those who can’t cover…
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The GOOD Guide to COP15: An Introduction
The Most Important Meeting in History
In 1997, delegates from all over the world met in Japan to create a worldwide framework for reducing carbon emissions. The resulting treaty, which took effect in 2005, aimed to reduce global emissions by 5.2 percent below 1990 levels. Since then, the Kyoto Protocol has been the watchword of environmentalists everywhere—a shorthand for the kind of international cooperation needed to fight climate change (and a reminder of the U.S. Senate’s…
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Transparency: How Education Spending Affects Graduation Rates
The U.S. government has poured $100 billion of stimulus money into the Education Department, but does paying more lead to better results? Our latest Transparency is a look at the amount of money every state spends per student, and the graduation rates in those states.
A collaboration between GOOD and Lamosca
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Transparency: The Change in Carbon Emissions
As the world gets closer to the COP15 Climate Change conference, it’s important to look at from where the emissions around the world are coming. In the last year, some countries have started to clean up their act, while other countries continue to pump out carbon dioxide. Our latest Transparency is a look at the five highest emitters in each region of the world as of 2007 and whether they have increased or decreased both…
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Transparency: The Change in Carbon Emissions
As the world gets closer to the COP15 Climate Change conference, it’s important to look at from where the emissions around the world are coming. In the last year, some countries have started to clean up their act, while other countries continue to pump out carbon dioxide. Our latest Transparency is a look at the five highest emitters in each region of the world as of 2007 and whether they have increased or decreased both…
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Philanthrocapital Gains
The Economist’s Matthew Bishop weighs in on Bill Clinton, Dambisa Moyo, microfinance, and the state of philanthropy.
The first edition of Matthew Bishop and Michael Green’s Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World was released, as Bishop puts it, on the morning of the global economic collapse. The book, which outlines the changing landscape of philanthropy and offers a prescription for effective giving through business acumen, was received well by critics but its timing was less than opportune.…
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The GOOD 100: Cash for Clunkers
In July, America’s “Cash for Clunkers” program became a front-page news story. Championed by environmental groups, progressive think tanks, and the auto industry, the program, which gave consumers up to $4,500 when they exchanged an old gas guzzler for a new, fuel-efficient car, proved to be so popular that it exhausted its initial $1 billion in less than a week (it was later extended). In the process, it got 250,000 of our nation’s most polluting…
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AYM ’09: Fighting the FARC with Facebook
Interviews from the Alliance of Youth Movements summit: Oscar Morales.
From Obama’s campaign fundraising to the election protests in Iran, we’ve all heard that Twitter and Facebook are rewriting the rules of public engagement. Guest blogger Erin Mazursky talked to participants at the Alliance of Youth Movements summit in Mexico City to find out how the nonprofit leaders of tomorrow are using technology.
Oscar Morales is one such leader. In January of 2008, he created a Facebook group…
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The GOOD 100: Ray Lahood
The Hottest Thing on Wheels (or Rails)
As the new transportation secretary, Ray LaHood has been tasked with remaking our transportation infrastructure into one that focuses more on sustainability than widening highways. It’s a tall order but, so far, we’re impressed with his approach.
1. For supporting high-speed rail.
When Obama squeezed $8 billion for high-speed rail into the recent stimulus package, LaHood got on board fast. His grant program for rail projects already has nearly 300 applications. They’re…
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The GOOD 100: Ending the War on Drugs
Finding a Better Way to Fight
It’s pretty much unanimous, at this point: The war on drugs has sucked us all down with it. Each year it accounts for more than a million arrests and costs the United States tens of billions of dollars. The impact of the war’s failed policies can be seen everywhere: There are arrest rates with their damning racial biases; the overcrowded state and federal prisons; and the fact that we spend…
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The GOOD 100: The Great Electric Vehicle Race
Portland vs. San Francisco
Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco seem locked in an ongoing battle to become the left coast’s left-most city. To stoke the competition, the blog Gas2.0 has launched a website to track each city’s progress toward building an infrastructure for electric cars. We asked the mayors of both cities to explain what they’re doing to win:
Mayor Gavin Newsom on why the Bay Area will win:
Bay Area consumers have been the early adopters of green…
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Opium Economics
Heroin makes Lou Reed feel like Jesus, and it won’t leave Guns N’ Roses alone, but how does it end up here in the United States? We take a look at the global opium trade from the poppy fields of Afghanistan to a shady street corner near you.
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Opium Economics
Heroin makes Lou Reed feel like Jesus, and it won’t leave Guns N’ Roses alone, but how does it end up here in the United States? We take a look at the global opium trade from the poppy fields of Afghanistan to a shady street corner near you.
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The State of the Planet
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Jailbirds
There are currently more than 2.3 million people incarcerated in the United States. What does that look like, exactly? That’s equivalent to putting the combined populations of Miami, Las Vegas, and Minneapolis behind bars. Why is our penal system broken? How do we stack up against other countries? We take a closer look at prisons in our latest Transparency.
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The Sentencing Project; The Pew Charitable Trusts; The U.S. Department of Justice; The Prison Policy…
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Jailbirds
There are currently more than 2.3 million people incarcerated in the United States. What does that look like, exactly? That’s equivalent to putting the combined populations of Miami, Las Vegas, and Minneapolis behind bars. Why is our penal system broken? How do we stack up against other countries? We take a closer look at prisons in our latest Transparency.
LEARN MORE
The Sentencing Project; The Pew Charitable Trusts; The U.S. Department of Justice; The Prison Policy…
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Part 1: The ABCs of War Bots
Technological developments have enabled the evolution of warfare from cavemen bludgeoning each other with blunt objects to career soldiers detonating explosives from miles away. What’s next on the battlefields of the future? Military robots are rolling, flying, and swimming into conflict zones, aiding and protecting their human counterparts. We take a closer look at these robo-warriors in our new series, “Military Robots.”
Continued in Part 2, “Soldiers and Their Bots.”
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Part 1: The ABCs of War Bots
Technological developments have enabled the evolution of warfare from cavemen bludgeoning each other with blunt objects to career soldiers detonating explosives from miles away. What’s next on the battlefields of the future? Military robots are rolling, flying, and swimming into conflict zones, aiding and protecting their human counterparts. We take a closer look at these robo-warriors in our new series, “Military Robots.”
Continued in Part 2, “Soldiers and Their Bots.”
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What The President Will Inherit
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If MURS Were President
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