The following are just a few, random, non-design links, but a list of good design efforts can be found on the PublicInterestDesign.org links page, here.

FAVORITE ARCHITECT
Jeanne Gang (long before 9/20/11)

FAVORITE BIKES
PUBLIC Bikes
Dahon Mu Uno

FAVORITE BLOGS
Brain Pickings
FastCompany’s Co.Design
Pro Bono Junkie’s Blog
Public Interest Design (obviously)

FAVORITE BOOKS
Let Your Life Speak, by Parker Palmer
Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder
Better, by Atul Gawande

FAVORITE CHARITIES
charity: water
Livestrong
MACC Fund, directed by John Cary, Sr.
Partners in Health
Among others…

FAVORITE COMPANIES
Apple
Behance
Dyson
Warby Parker

FAVORITE DESIGNER
Paula Scher

FAVORITE LADY
Courtney E. Martin

FAVORITE NONPROFITS
Center for Courage & Renewal
Echoing Green
IDEO.org
Taproot Foundation
TED
Among others…

FAVORITE PAINTERS
Clay Carroll
Doug Argue

FAVORITE PHOTOGRAPHERS
Chris Jordan
Iwan Baan
Stephen Wilkes

FAVORITE TWEETERS
Carol Coletta
Thomas Fisher
Maria Popova

FAVORITE VIDEOS
50 Years of Progress
Back to the Start
Where Good Ideas Come From
And too many TEDTalks to count…