Prepare to feel hungry. Very, very hungry. Or quite possibly queasy. Last week our friends at GOOD asked their readers to name “the most culturally significant, sustainably produced, locally sourced sandwiches” in their home states. The resulting responses vary from predictable (New York – pastrami on rye; Maine – lobster roll; California – veggie sandwich) to pretty interesting (Alabama – fried chicken liver sandwich; Montana – Rocky Mountain oyster sandwich; South Dakota – spam sandwich). Can you imagine if this infographic came in scratch ‘n sniff poster form? Click here to view the larger, clickable version of the map, and let us know in the comments if you think they got your state right.
The World Database of Happiness is an ongoing register of information about the degree of happiness in different countries. Our friends at GOOD have taken their survey findings from the past 30 years and turned them into this cool animated infographic. As it turns out, most of us are pretty happy — especially Mexicans and Swedes. Click through for a closer look.
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The GOOD 100 is a compendium of people, ideas, and programs changing our planet for the better.
Put together by GOOD magazine, the online version of the list has added five innovative subjects each day in October, hitting the full 100 today. With picks ranging from a small Australian town’s bottled-water boycott to a teacher-salary initiative started by the leaders of 826, the savvy editors have compiled dozens of sources of inspiration, culled from an array of entries and their own archive.
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Thanks to our friends at GOOD we won’t be able to sleep tonight, so we thought we’d pay it forward. As they explain it, as of last Friday afternoon we’d exhausted our natural resources for this year; or in other words, as it stands “our collective global lifestyle would require 1.4 Earths to meet demand.” The image above is from Earth Overshoot Day 2008, which took place on September 23 — a whopping two days earlier. So that’s something.
