From October 13-15, hundreds of leading social entrepreneurs and investors from around the world will gather in San Francisco at the debut SoCap Conference. The three days of panels, discussions, and elbow-rubbing will focus on ways to expand the “social capital ecosystem” and direct cash to worthy social causes. We think this is pretty cool.

Visit http://www.socialcapitalmarkets.net/register.php and enter “GD15” for a 15% discount on conference passes.

On Tuesday, October 14, GOOD and Case Foundation are co-hosting a…

This week, we welcomed Nikhil Swaminathan to the team. If you haven’t already, do yourself a favor and read one of his recent posts—on The Garden, the Nobel Peace Prize, presidential lyricism, smoking mad men, or the HIV discovery feud.

Throughout the week, we explored a number of topics such as foreclosing on authors, alien drive-bys, local progress, the Mc prefix, and more.

Today, we launched our Wild Frontier of Sports series. It’s a great addition to our ever-growing…

A Photo Gallery from Hasankeyf, Turkey

The Southeastern Anatolian Project (GAP), Turkey’s ambitious, 12-phase hydropower initiative, has been in the works since the late 1960s. Its completion will, its planners hope, provide Turkey with the energy and irrigation to join the “developed world.” But the Ilisu Dam, a critical component of GAP, will turn the ancient city of Hasankeyf—home to archaeological digs and ethnic minorities—into a lake. See it while you can.

The NFL, the NBA, MLB—they’re are all familiar enough. The world of sports is bigger than those commercially-backed behemoths, though. In our new video series, “The Wild Frontier of Sports” (released in partnership with our friends at imeem), we look at the sports on the fringes—like “urban golf” and wild hog hunting—and the people who play them.

Need a soundtrack for your dodgeball tournament? Check out the GOOD employees’ playlist on imeem.

Cracked has one of the funniest political pieces we’ve read in a long time: mock-interviews with the imagined presidents Obama and McCain at the end of their imagined first terms. Just remember, we read all the media.

An Interview with McCain and Obama (in the Year 2012) via Digg.

A tree may grow in Brooklyn, but there’s a 14-acre farm in South Central Los Angeles. It’s been there since 1994, donated to residents by the local food bank in the wake of the L.A. riots sparked by the Rodney King verdict. Since that time, farmers, primarily Latino immigrants, split the acreage into more than 300 individual plots and tended the land—producing fruits and vegetables for both food and medicine.

In 2006, the land’s previous owner successfully…