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• These Can Be Yours

  The consumer in you wants these products.
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  • 010: The China Issue
  • Date: Mar 28 2008
  • Contributors: GOOD magazine

• Feel Guides

  IDEO's "field guides for the curious" give travelers more than just restaurant recommendations.
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  • 010: The China Issue
  • Date: Mar 19 2008
  • Contributors: Morgan Clendaniel

• Corner Store Cornucopia

  Many hope Romano's Grocery Many will become a national model for the healthy corner store.
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  • 010: The China Issue
  • Date: Mar 19 2008
  • Contributors: Tracie McMillian

• Bibliophilia

  This collection of photos from some visually interesting libraries is worth checking out (ha!) The pictures are from a book, Libraries, by Candida Höfer. Via Better World Blog.
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  • Date: May 08 2008
  • Posted by andrewprice

• How I Spent My Stimulus

  An old friend of GOOD, Rudy Adler, has put together an amazingly fun dialogue project called How I Spent My Stimulus. Is this an awesomely tangential rejoinder to our consumer spending concerns of yesterday? You bet it is.
  
  From the homepage: In January, Congress approved $152 billion in economic stimulus checks for millions of American households, intended to boost the economy and avert a recession. Just how this money will be spent remains to be seen. We hope this website helps shed some light on where the stimulus money is going.
  
  Our favorite, by a landslide, is Alex from Reston, Virginia. He purchased the kitten above.
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  • Date: May 06 2008
  • Posted by Patrick James

• Fighting Flier With Flier

  Apparently 1/3 of what we buy goes straight into the trash. That's according to the Akatu Institute, a Brazilian organization that promotes conscious consumption. To combat the tricks retailers use to encourage us to buy more than we need, Akatu enlisted art director Mihail Aleksandrov, who created fliers that "advertise" wasted, decaying food, and handed them out in front of supermarkets. Aesthetically, the fliers are reminiscent of those Diesel campaigns that subvert the glossy advertising style. While at least 1/3 of these fliers probably went straight into the trash too, we like the creative approach and we'll assume the net effect of the campaign was positive until we hear otherwise. Via Computerlove.
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  • Date: May 05 2008
  • Posted by andrewprice

• Simple economics

  Why did they go under? Simple. Overpriced goods.
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  • Date: May 03 2008
  • Posted by adidasdude41

• T-Shirts

  Nothing has replaced the funny t-shirt in our culture as a gift or a way to make a statement.
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  • Date: Apr 24 2008
  • Posted by BingoMan

• why is this a bad thing?

  Why is it better to be a non-profit than a for-profit? Why is it better to be a local company than a large company? At what point does a company that is successful become too successful and immediately "evil." I have known lots of small companies that were terrible to their employees, didn't have enough profit to provide any kinds of benefits or insurance, and whose products were less than great. As for non-profits, I worked for the Girl Scouts of America- which was the worst job I ever had. All of my supervisors were incredibly rude to me, since at that time I had not yet completed my college degree, and the pay was so low that I had to work two jobs. I was literally working seven days a week with no breaks. That is what convinced me to go back to school so I could educate myself and one day work for a successful for-profit company that was producing something of excellence. The services provided to the girls at the Girl Scouts of America were far from excellent, and we had to hound those girls into selling cookies like crazy because that literally comprised 90% of our budget.
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  • Date: Apr 20 2008
  • Posted by rationalthinker