Ferd Wulkan stands in Montague Common Hall in his hometown of Montague, Mass., as 30 grown men and women (just a couple of women, really) gather around five long wooden tables—their brows furrowed with determination, their gray hair sweaty with exertion—to flip plastic discs into tiny red cups.   Welcome to the world of competitive tiddlywinks. Wulkan, 68, is a…

  Do you remember the 90’s modern rock hitmakers Third Eye Blind? The band behind songs like “Semi-Charmed Life” and “Jumper” have been on the comeback trail in recent years. This week, they got a gig playing at an event sponsored by the Recording Industry Association of America that was hosted next door to the…

It’s no secret that the food world has become Mother Nature’s best friend in all sorts of ways. From waste-centric pop-up wastED to massive chains such as Chipotle using local, organic produce, feel-good food is everywhere. However, while the restaurant industry is busy pushing its way into new sustainable ground, the $110 billion spirit industry has failed…

We’ve relaunched a GOOD online series, “People Are Awesome,” where we feature good people doing great things—and seek their advice, inspiration, and ideas. This week’s Awesome Person: Louise Bruce. The notion of putting your career on the “composting fast track” might seem a little, well, outlandish. And yet, take a peek at the path of…

You’re taking the wrong cues from Donald Trump. Mark Zuckberg’s Hawaiian neighbors may be about to unfriend him in a major way. The Facebook CEO is causing a bit of an uproar with plans to build a massive wall around his property on Kauai. Construction on the “daunting and forbidding” wall reportedly began a little…

In December 2017, the Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal net-neutrality regulations that prohibited broadband providers from blocking websites or charging for higher-quality service or specific content. The repeal granted internet service providers (ISPs) the ability to push consumers towards their content and products while potentially slowing down or eliminating access to their competitors’ sites….

March 8th is traditionally observed around the world as International Women’s Day, but in light of the threat perceived by the current political administration, many are rebranding the observation as A Day Without A Woman. Labeled a “one-day demonstration of economic solidarity,” organizers are urging women, when possible, to take the day off from work, to…

People love to criticize moms for everything from breastfeeding in public to having c-section births to letting their kids wear jewelry. San Diego-based video blogger Tasha “Spiritual Tasha Mama” Maile has done her part to fight breastfeeding stigma and other forms of mom-shaming on her popular YouTube channel. But people thought Maile had gone too…

Normally when people on the Internet say “So-and-so destroyed so-and-so!” they’re being wildly hyperbolic. But yesterday on Twitter, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts absolutely body bagged fellow senator and presidential hopeful Ted Cruz. He got merc’d. Eviscerated. And Warren took him down with pure, cold facts. It started on Monday when Cruz sent out a…

Sexual harassment, shoddy background checks, price gouging, a verbally abusive CEO: Uber may be in the business of rideshares, but when it comes to legal troubles, you could say the company hoards them all to themselves. The latest came to a head in the UK, where courts ruled against Uber in favor of thousands of…