The GOODEST: Our Favorite Things to Learn and Do This Past Week
- Alessandra Rizzotti wrote in News, Do and Goodest

You can learn about so many things on the internet, but how much more powerful would it be if you could also DO after you learned stuff? From a lesson about The Emancipation Proclamation to joining Obama’s Day of Service and applying to be a Mars colonist, we have things for you to learn and do from this week. Oh, and since we’re always learning from the GOOD community, we’re starting to share member profiles that are starting great discussions and activating the online platform.

Let’s Learn

• There’s No Race Like Home: ‘Searching for Zion’ Explores Being Biracial in America
• Here’s What Energy Company ‘Land Men’ Tell Homeowners in Rural Eastern Ohio
• Rebrand Your ‘Hood for Good
• ‘Kale-Eating Overlord’ Musk Will Allow Meat on Mars—If It’s Viable
• The Emancipation Proclamation Story Not Taught in Schools
• Retrofitting Surburbia: Bringing Life to Vacant Spaces
• The Digital Divide? It’s at Your Local School, Too
• Softwalks: Turning Scaffolding into Pop-up Parks
• The Tricycle House and Garden Imagines a Sustainable World on Three Wheels

Let’s Do:

• Share Files You Don’t Want with People You Don’t Know
• Help Support a New Design to Remove Landmines
• Volunteer for the Los Angeles Homeless Count 2013
• Build Public Schools That Create More Energy Than They Use
• Join Obama’s Day of Service

Illustration by Jessica de Jesus
Original Image via (cc) flickr user Markle1