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How I Turned My Love of 'The Wire' into Design for Impact

Most mainstream exposure to ‘hood’ culture doesn’t give an honest look into the heart and character of it. The Wire was brutally honest to a fault, but made me fully appreciate life in Baltimore.

Infographic: Do You Know Your Neighbor?

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...

Infographic: How Do Natural Gas Pipelines Work?

It's Energy month at GOOD, so we've teamed up with Portland, Oregon's Focus the Nation, an organization that's empowering youth to make smart...

Infographic: Mapping Our Oil Pipeline

Where does gasoline and home heating oil come from? Believe it or not, it's not just one system that makes it possible for you to fuel up at...

Infographic: From Energy Production to Electricity Consumption

It's Energy month at GOOD, so we've teamed up with Portland, Oregon's Focus the Nation, an organization that's empowering youth to make smart...

Infographic: It's Not Business As Usual For Today's Top Executives

Ask 6,000 CEOs, CFOs, and CIOs what it takes to succeed in business, and you're bound to get some interesting answers.

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The Power of the Smart Grid

If implemented by 2030, a smart grid could have incredible effects on our energy use and carbon emissions.

The World of Data We're Creating on the Internet

In the 21 century, almost everything we do is reduced to bits and sent through cables at light speed. But just how much data are we generating?

The Cities with the Most Frustrating Traffic Problems

IBM surveyed drivers in 20 of the world's metropolises to see which city's drivers experienced most drivers experienced most traffic-related woes.

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Does Technology Make Us More Productive Workers?

Technology has many benefits, one of which is to make us more efficient workers. And throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, productivity has...

The Benefits of Building a Smart Energy Grid

A smart energy grid—which can measure usage and help efficiently manage power grids—could reduce power costs and benefit the environment as well, since a more efficient grid would require less energy from power plants.

Comparing the Country's Largest Public Transit Systems

Taking public transportation is one of the best way to combat congestion in our cities. But to encourage individuals to take...

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Saving Money by Cutting Traffic

America is known for its car culture-but we haven't designed our daily commutes from home to work (and back) to be easy. In fact, they're...

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Using Technology to Improve City Services

Most city government agencies tend to gather their own data in parallel, and they rarely share information with each other....

Using Technology to Make Shopping Better

As people worldwide flock to social networks such as Facebook and Twitter-which boast 350 million and 18 million users,...

Putting the Stimulus to Work

In February, the U.S. government passed the $787 billion Recovery Act, better known as the stimulus package, in an effort to...

Using Technology to Prevent Blackouts

It's easy to take electricity for granted. Because it's such a critical part of our lives, we expect it to be there all the...

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