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  • 3 days ago | goodgoodgood.co | Kamrin Baker

    Every year, artists, architects, and designers flock to Venice, Italy for an international cultural exhibition called the Venice Biennale. Leaders in their fields show off innovative designs and artworks, but this year, visitors have received a show-stopping invitation: Drink a shot of espresso made from the city’s canal water.

  • 1 week ago | goodgoodgood.co | Kamrin Baker

    The average pediatric wheelchair can cost thousands of dollars. And when children grow and their needs evolve — or a wheelchair gets damaged — those costs multiply. So, the team at MakeGood NOLA, a New Orleans-based adaptive design lab, has made something that can transform the world for disabled children. “Introducing the world’s first fully 3D-printed wheelchair,” MakeGood founder and president Noam Platt started a recent social media video.

  • 1 week ago | goodgoodgood.co | Kamrin Baker

    Boyan Slat made waves when he was just a teenager with an audacious dream to rid the world’s oceans of plastic waste. Slat’s first TEDx Talk went viral in 2012, as the founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup described his detailed plan for tackling the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — and ocean pollution in general. In his most recent TED Talk, he shared the organization’s progress and predicted that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch would be cleaned up in five years’ time.

  • 1 week ago | goodgoodgood.co | Kamrin Baker

    Gianni Valenti is the president of French NGO Gaia First, which is an organization working to end plastic pollution in coastal communities around the world. He’s also a dad. And it was his daughter who inspired his biggest project — when she dropped a toy car from a balcony and broke it into countless fragments. But she didn’t see it as waste. “I saw how she took apart every single component of the car and transformed everything — down to the smaller stickers and even rubber joints.

  • 1 week ago | goodgoodgood.co | Kamrin Baker

    Earlier this year, in accordance with the Trump administration’s efforts to “cut federal spending,” through the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, major layoffs and budget cuts were instituted across the National Park and National Forest Services. The initial round of layoffs resulted in the abrupt termination of about 1,000 national park workers — about 5% of the agency’s entire workforce.

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