Last year I started a weekly (mostly…sometimes…infrequently) newsletter focusing on the good things that designers and other creatives in the world have been doing to try to make a positive impact on the world. From coffee shops, to bike paths, to baseball camps for young children…there’s a lot of good going on in a worldContinue reading “Do Good Things Newsletter: Warren Buffett on Happiness”
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Do Good Things Spotlight: “Cleanliness is Next to Goodliness”
Two NOVA Lab Entrepreneurs design and prototype a device for the common good.
Fluxspace 2.0: The Return
NOVA Lab students return to Fluxspace to present their projects to panels of community members, parents, and business people.
Backyard Beans: “A Small, Good Thing”
The last newsletter introduced us to the good that comes from planning (and growing) towns and cities at a human scale. Towns thus planned allowed neighborhood businesses to flourish. Barber shops, mercantiles, restaurants, bars, doctors…all these small businesses, vital to the health and well-being of citizens were also vital to the life of the townContinue reading “Backyard Beans: “A Small, Good Thing””
The Thrill of Victory, and the Agony of Defeat: Cassidy Lichtman’s “P/ATH” and Sport as a Good Thing
A look at a small but determined initiative using sports in a focused and determined way to achieve one’s goals as well as a way to develop a solid sense of self and a care for a larger key community.
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