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Chicago Schools and Groupon Team Up to Help Needy Students

Have $12? Starting Tuesday, Chicago residents will be able to buy a Groupon daily deal that purchases school supplies for low income students.

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Repurposing Abandoned Schools Project Winner: A Farm to Table Urban Food Center

Caroline Hadilaksono turns an abandoned school into an "all-in-one ecosystem" where people can grow, distribute, and enjoy good food. See her design.

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Remember What Malls Looked Like in 1989? Malls of America Photo Project Takes Us Back to 1989

Check out that mullet in the food court. This photo project wants to show you what malls across the country looked like in the 1980s.

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Austrian National Library: A Model for the 21st Century?

The stunning design for an extension of Austria's National Library is a 21st century learning space that's visually inspiring and multifunctional.

GOOD Holiday Gift Guide 2010

Unique gift ideas, unusual holiday traditions, and some decidedly un-consumery things to make or experience in lieu of a trip to the mall.

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How Cheap Fashion Is Changing the Way We Shop

Stores like H&M and Zara are selling mass-produced fashions sold at rock bottom prices—and retraining shoppers to buy low-quality clothes.

The Vicious Cycle of Status Envy: Why We Buy Things We Can't Afford

Retail therapy may be a quick fix to boost our sense of status, but in the end, it kicks us when we're down.

Americans Spend More in the Search for Happiness—And It's Not Working

“We end up after the recession at a higher spending rate than we were at previously because we feel like we have to make up for lost time.”

Chicago Schools and Groupon Team Up to Help Needy Students

Have $12? Starting Tuesday, Chicago residents will be able to buy a Groupon daily deal that purchases school supplies for low income students.

Repurposing Abandoned Schools Project Winner: A Farm to Table Urban Food Center

Caroline Hadilaksono turns an abandoned school into an "all-in-one ecosystem" where people can grow, distribute, and enjoy good food. See her design.

Remember What Malls Looked Like in 1989? Malls of America Photo Project Takes Us Back to 1989

Check out that mullet in the food court. This photo project wants to show you what malls across the country looked like in the 1980s.

Actually, Whole Foods Isn't That Expensive

A new report from the Boston Globe argues that all that stuff about Whole Foods being too expensive is hooey.

Transparency: Paying the Same Amount for Smaller Products

A recent investigation found that many of the everyday items you buy have been suspiciously shrinking, despite no similar reduction in cost.

Austrian National Library: A Model for the 21st Century?

The stunning design for an extension of Austria's National Library is a 21st century learning space that's visually inspiring and multifunctional.

"Buy Local" Campaigns Actually Work Really Well

It turns out that reminding people to support their local independent businesses works very well. Repeat after us: "Think globally, buy locally."

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A new service rounds up all your credit purchases to the nearest dollar and then donates that change to your favorite charity. You just have to shop.

GOOD Holiday Gift Guide 2010

Unique gift ideas, unusual holiday traditions, and some decidedly un-consumery things to make or experience in lieu of a trip to the mall.

Just So You Know: Black Friday Is Not the Biggest Shopping Day of the Year

If you feel like you have to participate in the biggest shopping day of the year, just know that it is not, contrary to popular belief, Black Friday.

Buy Nothing Day Is Here—Join a Whirlmart Near You to Celebrate Buy Nothing Day: Another Approach to Black Friday

The 8th annual Buy Nothing Day is here with creative calls to supplant shopping trips with community, parades, and empty shopping cart meet-ups.

GOOD Instructions: How to Clean out Your Closet Responsibly

Very often, when we're given tips about cleaning up our lifestyles, it involves buying new stuff to replace the old, bad stuff. Obviously,...

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Stores like H&M and Zara are selling mass-produced fashions sold at rock bottom prices—and retraining shoppers to buy low-quality clothes.

Retail therapy may be a quick fix to boost our sense of status, but in the end, it kicks us when we're down.

“We end up after the recession at a higher spending rate than we were at previously because we feel like we have to make up for lost time.”

Have $12? Starting Tuesday, Chicago residents will be able to buy a Groupon daily deal that purchases school supplies for low income students.

Caroline Hadilaksono turns an abandoned school into an "all-in-one ecosystem" where people can grow, distribute, and enjoy good food. See her design.

Check out that mullet in the food court. This photo project wants to show you what malls across the country looked like in the 1980s.

A new report from the Boston Globe argues that all that stuff about Whole Foods being too expensive is hooey.

A recent investigation found that many of the everyday items you buy have been suspiciously shrinking, despite no similar reduction in cost.

The stunning design for an extension of Austria's National Library is a 21st century learning space that's visually inspiring and multifunctional.

It turns out that reminding people to support their local independent businesses works very well. Repeat after us: "Think globally, buy locally."

A new service rounds up all your credit purchases to the nearest dollar and then donates that change to your favorite charity. You just have to shop.

Unique gift ideas, unusual holiday traditions, and some decidedly un-consumery things to make or experience in lieu of a trip to the mall.

If you feel like you have to participate in the biggest shopping day of the year, just know that it is not, contrary to popular belief, Black Friday.

The 8th annual Buy Nothing Day is here with creative calls to supplant shopping trips with community, parades, and empty shopping cart meet-ups.

Very often, when we're given tips about cleaning up our lifestyles, it involves buying new stuff to replace the old, bad stuff. Obviously,...

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