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The GOODEST: Five of Our Favorite Things to Learn and Do- Alessandra Rizzotti and Jessica De Jesus contributed in Culture and News We’re picking five great things to highlight from this past week, plus a community member that’s making waves on our online platform.  The Treasury Department said ‘no’ to the trillion dollar coin, so send us your designs and maybe we could mint the coin. 12-year-old Sicily Kolbeck inspired us to build a tiny house and set our own course… But, for any idea to become a reality, a lone visionary isn’t always enough… I mean, together we can be superheroes. Illustration by Jessica De Jesus. Original photograph by David Gonzalez

The GOODEST: Five of Our Favorite Things to Learn and Do
- Alessandra Rizzotti and Jessica De Jesus contributed in Culture and News

We’re picking five great things to highlight from this past week, plus a community member that’s making waves on our online platform. 

  • The Treasury Department said ‘no’ to the trillion dollar coin, so send us your designs and maybe we could mint the coin.

Illustration by Jessica De Jesus. Original photograph by David Gonzalez

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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 living walls and folding cars to printing houses and building time machines, we have things for you to learn and do from this past week. Let’s Learn First: A Quick Look into the Science of Time  The Year of the (Green) Dragon: China’s Burgeoning Environmental Movement The Easiest New Year’s Resolution Everyone Should Do A Tiny, Fold-up Electric Car Will Hit Streets This Year Intermission: Fireworks in Reverse What Do You Want to Learn in 2013? Google’s Resolution Map Could Help You Figure it Out New Living Walls Use ‘Biological Concrete’ to Reduce CO2 This Theater Has Seats for Tweeters—So Should These Businesses ‘Print Your House’ Coming Soon? Architecture and Fabrication In Search of Ed Tech Ideas that Reimagine Learning People Are Awesome: Man Moves in With Parents So a Homeless Family Can Live in His House This Massive Land Art Portrait Fights for Human Rights in Central America Is the Crowd a Feasible Design Partner? Intermission: Those Crafty Dutch To Unveil Ultra Green Route 66 of the Future Now, let’s DO the DOs: Make a Promise To Yourself and Others: Order Promise Cards From “Because I Said I Would” Rich Block, Poor Block: Find the Range of Income in Your Neighborhood Share This Film with Someone Who Cares About the Future of Public Schools Send a Postcard on National Opt Out Day, January 7th When Ordering Delivery Food, Avoid Places Using Styrofoam Help Get Car Horns on Bicycles to Prevent Accidents Start a Campaign To Ban Plastic Bottles in Your City Make a New Year’s UnResolution Continue reading on good.is Illustration by Jessica De Jesus. Image from How to Build Plans.

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 living walls and folding cars to printing houses and building time machines, we have things for you to learn and do from this past week.

Let’s Learn First:

Now, let’s DO the DOs:

Continue reading on good.is

Illustration by Jessica De Jesus. Image from How to Build Plans.

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The GOODEST: Our Favorite Things To Learn and Do This Past Week- Alessandra Rizzotti wrote in Goodest, News and Do 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 innovative modular designs and David Lynch’s thoughts on meditation, to a crowd-sourced photo essay that we want you to submit to, here are things for you to learn and DO from this past week. Using The Noun Project’s Iconic Design Tools for Social Change A City Education: Learning What Idealism Looks Like in Action Nonprofit or For-Profit? Here’s How I Decided to Go For-Profit Why Kids Make the Best Fundraisers, and Where Adults Can Take a Cue Stronger Together: A Photo Essay of Communities United Innovative Product Placement Makes This Music Video a Vehicle for Good ‘Django Unchained’: Quentin Tarantino’s Misappropriation of the N-Word Intermission: Anti-Islamic Pastor Quieted by a Beatles-Singing Crowd The Best in Photography: 25 Amazing Things That Happened in Photo This Year Best of 2012: The Top Ten Sustainable Modular Products Digging Deeper: Creativity and My First Meditation GOOD Video: Outward Bound Takes Learning into the Wild Please, Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood: Architecture and Communication The End of the World Is Real Saving the World in the Present Tense Re-Imagine the Gift: Give Your Time Send Words of Support to Sandy Hook Families Bring Back Word Up Community Bookshop Come Together to Help Build a Slow Design Knowledge Platform Everyone Should Make a Painting DIY: Make an Ornament out of Recycled Goods Sign a Pact With Your Community and Local Representatives To Improve Your Town Continue reading on good.is Illustration by Jessica De Jesus

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

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 innovative modular designs and David Lynch’s thoughts on meditation, to a crowd-sourced photo essay that we want you to submit to, here are things for you to learn and DO from this past week.

Illustration by Jessica De Jesus

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The GOODEST: Our Favorite Things to Learn and Do This Past Week- Alessandra Rizzotti wrote in Goodest, News and Do 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 inventions inspired by woodpeckers and beetles, to hosting a Secret Sandy and making a wish for the future, we have things for you to learn and DO from this past week. Because Science Matters: A Deep Dive into the Phenomenon of Vampire Draw The Agricultural Cliff: Farmers Are Aging, and Young People Have to Step In A Stronger Bike Helmet, Made of Cardboard and Inspired by a Woodpecker Landfill Harmonic: Making Music From Trash in a Paraguay Slum RX Made: How We’re Upcycling Building Waste and Creating Jobs School by Boat: Architect Brings Classrooms, and Healthcare, to Flood-Prone Bangladesh Let Students Design Their Own Social Change Projects Cheaper than Solar: Gravity-Powered Lights for the Developing World It’s About Time: ‘The Present’ Is an Updated Time Piece for the 21st Century How a Beetle Inspired Our Clean, Fresh Water Technology Streetpong: Redesigning the Walk Signal Four Ways to Find Your Work Passion(s) Why We Can’t Ignore the Caveats to Cory Booker’s Food Stamp Challenge Connecting Broadly Won’t Replace The Importance of Connecting Deeply Turning Packaging from Trash to Toys Don’t Just Talk to Kids About Violence, Help Them Take Action Share Your Thoughts: What are the building blocks of being an engaged and active citizen? Gift Like You Give a Damn: Host a ‘Secret Sandy’ to Help Those Affected by the Hurricane this Holiday Join Me in Requesting ‘Garbage to Garden’ in Your City Catalyze Innovative Education for the 21st Century Vote for a School That Deserves $50,000 Make a Wish for the Future: What’s Yours? Illustration by Jessica De Jesus

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

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 inventions inspired by woodpeckers and beetles, to hosting a Secret Sandy and making a wish for the future, we have things for you to learn and DO from this past week.

Illustration by Jessica De Jesus

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The GOODEST: Our Favorite Things to Learn and Do This Past Week- Alessandra Rizzotti wrote in Culture, News, and Do From freestyle rapping to starting your own compost, we have things for you to learn and do from this past week. Build a Better Home with These Alternative Construction Methods Bus Stop Light Therapy Panels Brighten Up the Winter Doldrums Freestyle Rap Battles Could Boost Student Creativity This Low-Cost Camera Could Help Save Lives Bikeshares and Liability: Answering the Sharing Economy’s Legal Questions One Fix for Rural Indian Girls’ Drop-Out Rate: Access to Affordable Feminine Hygiene Designing Healthy Doctors: Physicians Take Care of Us, But Who’s Taking Care of Them? Six Ways to Build a Better Urban Garden Curbside Composting Gains Steam in Portland, Maine Tell Them I Built This: With Design Thinking, High Schoolers Reimagine Chicken Coops In a Fashion-First, H&M Offers Clothing Recycling for Customers After-school 2.0: How Technology Can Create a Learning Community Virtual Pet Therapy: Technology Lets Hospitalized Kids Play With Cats Infographic: The Least and Most Corrupt Governments Around the World Gift Guide: These Fair Trade Gifts Give Back See the full Learn/Do list on good.is Illustration by Jessica De Jesus

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

From freestyle rapping to starting your own compost, we have things for you to learn and do from this past week.

See the full Learn/Do list on good.is

Illustration by Jessica De Jesus

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The GOODEST: Our Favorite Things to Learn and Do This Past Week Fish Poo Power: A Genius Countertop Aquaponics Garden ‘Solutionaries’: Why Adults Need to Get Out of the Way Yard CSAs: Hey, Neighbor—You Gonna Eat That? Twinkie Extinction: Luckily I Photographed Its 37 Or So Ingredients Occupy Sandy: One of the Best Startups I’ve Ever Seen Trend Alert: Capotain Pilgrim Hat as Ultimate Homage to Patron Saints of American Gentrification Twelve Ways to ‘Occupy’ Black Friday When I Needed Emergency Contraception, I Was Glad I Was in the Middle East Learning by Design: It’s Not What You Know, But How You Think Illustration by Jessica De Jesus

The GOODEST: Our Favorite Things to Learn and Do This Past Week

Illustration by Jessica De Jesus

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The GOODEST: Our Favorite Things to Learn and Do This Past Week (11/12-11/16) A Climate Change Call to Action Psychoanalyze Yourself and Your Coworkers: Take the Myers-Briggs Test Can the OWS ‘Rolling Jubilee’ Liberate Americans From Debt? Copenhagen’s Kiddie City is Urban Shangri-La for Little People Endangered Species: In Defense of Cursive Writing How Will Legalization Challenge Existing Canna-Businesses? Eat Real Food on Fridays Illustration by Jessica De JesusOriginal Image via (cc) flickr user kevin dooley

The GOODEST: Our Favorite Things to Learn and Do This Past Week (11/12-11/16)

Illustration by Jessica De Jesus
Original Image via (cc) flickr user kevin dooley

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The GOODEST: Our Favorite Things to Learn and Do This Past Week No More Pricetags on Our Presidents (Video) Ron Swanson Says, “It’s Time to Register for Movember” Donate $10 to Disaster Relief: Text REDCROSS to 90999 Ohio Gets the Best Kind of Political Ad: Silence Student Designs Inspire a New Approach to Voting Secret Life of Snarky Toys: Aled Lewis’ Playful Tableaus Top 10 Urban Transformation Projects Trick Or Vote Social Media Does Actionable Good During a Crisis Illustration by Jessica De Jesus

The GOODEST: Our Favorite Things to Learn and Do This Past Week

Illustration by Jessica De Jesus

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The GOODEST: Our Favorite Things to Learn and Do This Past Week - by Meg Neal How To Avoid ‘Apple Picking’ Who and What the F***Are We Voting For!? — A Party Test Your Knowledge of the Cuban Missile Crisis Photo Project Captures the Beauty in Daily Life of Afghanistan Infographic: We’re Running Out of Doctors in the U.S. Big Stylish Brother: Live Streetcam ‘Fashion’ Site Snaps Pedestrians What You Won’t Hear in the Presidential Debates: A Response to Racism in America Illustration by Jessica De Jesus

The GOODEST: Our Favorite Things to Learn and Do This Past Week - by Meg Neal

  1. How To Avoid ‘Apple Picking’
  2. Who and What the F***Are We Voting For!? — A Party
  3. Test Your Knowledge of the Cuban Missile Crisis
  4. Photo Project Captures the Beauty in Daily Life of Afghanistan
  5. Infographic: We’re Running Out of Doctors in the U.S.
  6. Big Stylish Brother: Live Streetcam ‘Fashion’ Site Snaps Pedestrians
  7. What You Won’t Hear in the Presidential Debates: A Response to Racism in America

Illustration by Jessica De Jesus

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