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Battleship Brooklyn: Mini Armada Attacks Superfund Site With Cameras

The Newtown Creek Armada explores the murky, polluted depths of a Brooklyn Superfund site with remote-controlled mini boats.

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Deep Pockets: Free Money Day Brings Radical Generosity To a Sidewalk Near You

You don't need to be a bank robber to shower strangers with no-strings-attached cash.

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Hopscotch Detroit: Community Building With Miles Long Pop-up Playground

Turning the classic children’s game into a city-wide, record-breaking happening.

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Thinkering: Mobile Maker Lab Hits the Road To Find High Demand

This workshop on wheels is delivering hands-on creativity coast-to-coast.

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Outsider Art: From Alley Tagger To Creative Entrepreneur at Streetcraft

New non-profit works in that narrow divide between artistic expression and vandalism, turning mere taggers into product designers and businesspeople.

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Yelp Better: Local Search App To Find Retail Social Enterprises

The new "Social Impact" app ups your game as ethical consumer, helping find local businesses that fit your values.

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Better Block: Bottom-Up Urban Reboot In a Single Weekend

In September, The Better Block is taking on Detroit for two days, activating a block's vacant space into a public hub filled with pop-up shops.

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Detroit Urban Farm Gets Solar Renovation

GOOD Maker's Use Technology for GOOD challenge winner is helping one urban farm go off-the-grid.

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Sketchy Road Trip: Join the Travelling Crowdsourced Sketchbook Exhibit

Your doodles, designs, pie-charts and patterns can take their show on the road as part of this growing mobile pop-up exhibition.

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Paint the Town Green: LA's Arts District to Plant Street Trees

A four-person committee in LA's Arts District is bringing trees to the neighborhood's barren streets with a grant from TreePeople & GOOD Maker.

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SolarKiosk: Mobile Modular Power for Really Remote Areas

A hub for solar powering off-grid areas, bringing both small business and clean energy, sets up its first shop in Ethiopia.

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The Terramar Project: Become a Citizen and Protector of the High Seas

For anybody whose heart belongs to the seas, here's a chance to claim citizenship to our planet’s international waters.

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Cycle on the Recycled: A $9 Cardboard Bike Set to Enter Production in Israel

A fully-functioning, water-resistant cardboard bicycle is all set to hit the streets.

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Make a Wish: Homeless Pittsburgh Kids Birthdays' Not Forgotten

Beverly’s Birthdays believes that every child deserves a birthday celebration, regardless of financial or personal circumstances.

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Ultimate Frisbee Meets Girl Powered Social Justice

In Seattle, GOOD Maker winner AGE UP uses ultimate frisbee to both empower female teen athletes and transform them into social justice leaders.

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GOOD Maker Challenge: Make Food More Awesome

Do you have an innovative, socially-minded project idea that will change the way we think about food? Submit your idea to win a $1000 grant.

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The Happy Post Project: Spreading Cheer Via Post-It Note

The Happy Post Project will ask you one question only: What makes you happy? The GOOD Maker finalist globe-trots to collect answers on Post-It notes.

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