Socially Conscious Style Is on the Rise
- Juana Colon posted in Design, Living and Fashion
The good news and bad news is that socially conscious fashion is no longer news. It’s undeniably wonderful that so many designers are paying closer attention to how, where, and by whom things are made.
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Zara Pledges to Eliminate All Toxic Chemicals After Greenpeace Campaign
- Adele Peters posted in Design, Business and Sustainability
Zara, the world’s largest fashion retailer, has agreed to remove toxic chemicals from its clothing by 2020—thanks to a week of intense pressure from consumers (including the GOOD community) in a campaign led by Greenpeace.
Infographic: The World’s Oldest Trees
- Adele Peters posted in Environment, Sustainability and Design
A recent study in Science reported that some of the world’s oldest trees—most between 100 to 300 years old—are dying rapidly, in part because of climate change. This infographic (from 2010, but still relevant) shows the location of trees that are even older, and now at risk.
How to Feed a Town: The Incredible Edible Project
- Adele Peters wrote in Food, Sustainability and Sustainable Design
Four years ago, a group of residents in the small English town of Todmorden decided to adopt an ambitious goal: by 2018, the whole town would become completely “food independent,” growing and raising all of the food it needed itself, through the Incredible Edible Todmorden project.
Now, virtually every free piece of land in the town is filled with food, from yards in front of the police and railway stations, to parks, schoolyards, backyards, and traffic roundabouts. Everything grown on public land is free for anyone in town to take. The nonprofit running the project also offers classes in everything from baking bread to pickling.
Max Schorr posted in Living, Design and Home
Graham Hill’s personal account of learning to live with less and finding more happiness.
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We live in a world of surfeit stuff, of big-box stores and 24-hour online shopping opportunities. Members of every socioeconomic bracket can and do deluge themselves with products.
There isn’t any indication that any of these things makes anyone any happier; in fact it seems the reverse may be true.
For me, it took 15 years, a great love and a lot of travel to get rid of all the inessential things I had collected and live a bigger, better, richer life with less.
Illustration by Maxwell Holyoke-Hirsch for nytimes.com
Living Large in Small Houses: The Tiny Home Revolution
- Jamie Nash posted in Design, Creativity and Living
With tighter budgets, a desire to live close to family, environmental consciousness and the wish for a shorter commute to work, Generation Y is increasingly tending toward tiny houses. Whether you want to live in your parents’ backyard, or simply live without a mortgage in a space you can call your own, these folks have proven you can live large in a small house.
Nothing Stops This Badass Blogger
- Hannah Wasserman posted in Living, Creativity and Fashion
Awesome story about this fashion blogger who has spastic muscular dystrophy. She is uses a wheelchair but that hasn’t stopped her from entering the fashion industry just like any able person.
Let’s Fix It: Fall 2013, GOOD Magazine’s (Re)design Issue
- Joshua Neuman wrote in Design, Good Magazine and Subscribe
The (Re)design Issue tells a DIO (do-it-ourselves) design story that not only chronicles the ways in which design thinking is being deployed all over the world, but also calls you, the GOOD community, to take part in its deployment.
That DIO story is a thread that winds itself throughout the issue. It runs through Chelsea Roff’s story about how you can redesign your well-being; it runs through our roundtable with GOOD’s first-ever Global Exchange Fellows who are redesigning the way we think about neighborhoods; you hear it in Ralph Nader’s recollections of the doomed Chevy Corvair on its 50th anniversary; you see it in Bethlehem Shoals’ essay on the championship legacy of the NBA coaching collaboration of Phil Jackson and Tex Winter, who effectively redesigned teamwork; and we hope you will take part in it as you explore our 14-page feature on half-baked solutions.
For the designers among you, we expect you’ll notice the (Re)design Issue pushing against the boundaries of what constitutes a “design problem.” Our hope is that all of you begin thinking a little bit more like designers. We think our planet needs it.
Why Good Fences Make Bad Neighbors: Annie Leonard’s Backyard Commune
- Annie Leonard wrote in Living, Cities and Communal Living
When we were younger we all lived together in a big house in Washington, D.C. One couple moved out west for grad school at UC Berkeley, and over the next two decades, as other houses on the block became available, we all migrated. We tore down the fences in our back yards to have one huge shared garden; because so many in the community are avid gardeners (I’m not), I like to say that I live in a Monet painting with my best friends.
We share Stuff all the time. We only need one barbecue, one table saw, one lawn mower, one fax and scanner. Because we share so much, we buy and consume and throw away less Stuff. Sure, we save money and conserve resources, but the real benefits are not material.
Welcome to a new, connected, more collaborative good.is!
Let’s learn and do more good — together.
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