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Help Support Vuvuzelas for BP

  Vuvuzelas for BP is a fun effort by Adam Quirk to make some noise around BP: BP is not feeling the pain they are causing in the Gulf....

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...

Crowdsourcing Refugee Resettlement—What's Your Idea?

  Even after getting arrested and suffering a narrow brush with deportation, Samy is still hiding out in...

Why Worldchanging Isn't Covering the Oil Spill

  Alex Steffen has a fascinating piece up at Worldchanging explaining why they've decided not to cover the BP oil...

@GOOD Asks: What Makes a Commercial or Ad Attractive?

Yesterday on Twitter and Facebook, we asked our friends: What makes a commercial or ad attractive? We ask a question to our Twitter and Facebook...

Bundy to Concord: Ban Bottled Water, We've Got Your Back

As we've mentioned, the town of Concord, Massachusetts, recently passed a ban on bottled water, but they're getting some static from the...

Education: Morning Roundup, Charter School Conundrum

Morning Roundup: From The Christian Science Monitor: Study: On average, charter schools do no better than public schools But...

Q&A;: A Frostbitten Climate Crusading Storyteller

Despite his claims of being "just a normal guy," Sebastian Copeland regularly endures some the of the harshest conditions on the...

Farmworkers Dare Americans to "Take Our Jobs"

United Farm Workers and Stephen Colbert have teamed up to call for a new discussion of immigration reform by reminding Americans just what those...

Why Corporations Should Be More Responsible

  Many companies such as IBM, General Electric, and Intel have achieved impressive results from long-standing partnerships...

Flavorwire Breaks Down the Forbes Celebrity 100

Forbes recently released its annual Celebrity 100, a list of the world's most powerful celebrities. In response, the pop-savvy folks over at...

Entertaining an Argument Against the Plastic Bag Ban

California is considering banning the single-use plastic bag from grocery stores (and adopting a 5-cent charge for paper bags). The legislation,...

FDA Takes One Step Forward, One Step Backward

The FDA has long fought to regulate and cut back the widespread use of antibiotics in animal feed, which has created resistant super bugs that...

Would You Drive this Car?

Gordon Murray has designed some of the fastest cars in the world: the McLaren Formula 1 and McLaren F1 Supercar. According to Wired's...

Great News: An X Prize for Oil Cleanup

The folks at the X Prize Foundation have funded big, multimillion-dollar prizes to inspire teams of entrepreneurs and inventors to advance...

Should Teachers Friend Their Students?

On Facebook, how classroom rules do and do not apply. In real life, people don't just usually walk right up to you and ask...

Electrolux to Make Vacuums from Plastic Ocean Trash

While images of brown streaks of drifting crude oil, beached tar balls, and petroleum-stained pelicans are now conjured with any mention of ocean...

This Quarter's Magazine

Issue 019: The Neighborhoods Issue

In the past few generations, globalization has made our neighborhoods more uniform and less personal. While we were becoming citizens of the world, we forgot to be citizens of where we live. In this issue, we explore how we can fight homogeneity and preserve or recapture our unique communities.

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