Transgender Day Of Remembrance 2012: 50 Transgender Icons
Today is the 14th International Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day when we remember those who have been victims of anti-transgender violence.
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We Should All Listen to Louis C.K.’s Advice on Using Smart Phones and ‘Being a Person’
- Stef McDonald posted in Technology, Culture and Health
On “Conan,” Louis C.K. offered a perspective on our culture’s use of smart phones that gets to the heart of the matter. He starts with how he won’t allow his kids to have mobile phones, then launches into a moving and hilarious explanation of why that includes insights into cyber-bullying, texting and driving, emotional health, and “being a person.” (Oh, and the amazingness of Bruce Springsteen.) Best advice: “you need to build an ability to just be yourself and not be doing something.”
The GOODEST: Make a Pro Bono Commitment
-Alessandra Rizzotti and Jessica De Jesus contributed in Business, Culture and News
The GOODEST can be so many things, but why not just narrow it down to one thing each week? We’ll change it up and keep it fresh. After all, we consume so much daily, so for the weekend, why not just take away one great learn and do from the week?
Help Your Company Add a Pro Bono Service Program
Public Architecture wrote this downloadable letter so that you can urge your CEO tomake meaningful work a part of actual work.
Will you fill out the letter and send it off? Tell us here.
Illustration by Jessica de Jesus. Original image from Auctiva.
Push for Good: This Week’s Guide to Crowdfunding Creative Progress
- Alessandra Rizzotti wrote in Culture, News and Goodness
Innovation makes the world go around, so why not crowdfund it? The best thinkers and ideamakers are the those that can make collective progress, so if we support their causes, projects, and ideas, we can be a part of bettering the future of our planet.
Maybe you don’t know what causes you care about yet, or maybe you’re still searching. Consider this a guide of the goodness you can get behind. Take a look at GOOD’s curated Kickstarter page, which we’ll be updating regularly, and check back every Saturday for a round up of our favorite projects from the crowdfunding world.
- Taxonomy of Trash (5 days left)
- Tomorrow’s Lemonade Stand (5 days left)
- Documentary About Filmmakers Brought Together by the Egyptian Revolution (16 days left)
- Documentary Film In Pursuit of Silence (17 days left)
- Tapigami Presents Hacker Glasses (18 days left)
- Brooklyn Aerodrome Flight School (21 days left)
Tell us what projects you’re getting behind in the comments below. Push progress forward, and do it for our collective good.
Illustration by Jessica De Jesus. Image from Vintage Printable.
What Is Creativity? Cultural Icons on What Ideation Is and How It Works
Bradbury, Eames, Angelou, Gladwell, Einstein, Byrne, Duchamp, Close, Sendak, and more.
Shared by GOOD Community member Andrea Margutti in Creativity, Culture and Psychology
Infographic: Do You Know Your Neighbor?
- GOOD HQ and Oliver Munday contributed in Culture, America and News
Being neighborly isn’t just giving a smile and nod to your neighbors when you see them on the street. It’s a way of life—a way to build a real social network that can connect you to hyper-local current events, political action, and groups you can join to make your community a better place to live and work. What are ways we can improve how we engage with our communities?
Help Us Assemble the GOOD City Index
- Rosie Spinks and Jessica De Jesus contributed in Culture, News and Art
What makes a city? How does it move, motivate, inspire, and engage the people that live in it? How does it bring them together to do good work and make change? And how does it welcome its visitors to plug into what’s local and worthwhile. GOOD wants to know.
A bevy of measures and indicators have arisen over the past half decade to measure more than a regions’ industry and output or its population and budget. The Social Progress Index, Genuine Progress Index, and Well Being Strategy are good examples of the trend at at both the national and regional level. But we want want to make our own: the GOOD City Index.
Infographic: How to Recycle Your Christmas Tree
- Column Five contributed in Environment, Culture and Christmas
The tinsel is undraped and the ornaments carefully stores away. All that is left is a dry, majestic, 6-foot-tall Douglas Fir in the corner of your living room. Every year, an estimated 30 million of these fragrant, fresh, Christmas trees are sold in the United States, but as much as 10% of them go straight to landfills—never to be recycled.
What can you do to keep your Yuletide centerpiece from going to waste while also helping your community? For more ways you can help conserve, visit our Environment hub.
Announcement: The New GOOD Pets Hub Launches Today!
GOOD Partnerships wrote in Culture, News and Lifestyle
Starting today, we’ll be bringing you more than cute and fuzzy posts about cats and dogs. We’ll provide food for thought, including content like:
- Pet Diaries: Our continuing column features comedians, authors, musicians, and other pet owners writing about how their relationships with their neighbors and communities changed after pets came into their lives.
- Profiles about animal shelters and nonprofits that are finding inspiring ways to get their communities involved.
- Stories about people who are driven by curiosity to fuel change in their neighborhoods.
- A series elevating the extraordinary pet research that’s helping to improve the lives of our companions, including mapping the dog genome, studying dog happiness, tracking cat ancestry, and working on ways to help sustain a bright mind for dogs as they age.
- A GOOD Guide to keeping your pet healthy and happy in an urban city.
- Infographics that will include scientific facts about pets.
- And Maker Challenges, which will result in donations to a pet welfare nonprofit or shelter.
Illustration by Jessica De Jesus
Infographic: Your Pre-Ride Bicycle Checklist
- Aaron Kuehn contributed in Culture, Transportation and Infographic
This infographic is a collaboration between GOOD and Aaron Kuehn (@AaronKuehn)
Do you know how to prep your bike for a ride? Whether you’re a bike newbie and prefer to loop around the park or a longtime enthusiast who bikes across the city, it’s important that your bike’s parts function properly so that you stay safe and make the most of your ride. Here’s a pre-ride checklist to get you started on the right track. Once you’re set up, you may be inspired to get around by bike more often. Make sure you’re always prepared by downloading your own copy of the Pre-Ride Bicycle Checklist infographic here.
Join us for our Fix Your Street Challenge on the last Saturday of May. Click here to say you’ll Do It and be sure to share stories of transportation innovation all month.
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