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Economics for a blue planet
Gunter Pauli, author of The Blue Economy, on why blue is the new green. By Jurriaan Kamp and Marco Visscher Armed with an MBA from the French business school INSEAD, Gunter Pauli was in his mid-30s when he took the reins at Ecover, the Belgian cleaning products manufacturer that ran into Read More...
The work comes to the workplace
Spiritual teacher Byron Katie on how insight into our attitudes toward competition and profit can make business better. Jurriaan Kamp | December 2011 Issue Byron Katie was in her early thirties, living in Southern California and working in the real estate business, when she started to suffer from Read More...
The return of the Rotary
Eric Larson | December 2011 Issue Ask anyone under 40 about Kiwanis International, Rotary International, Toastmasters International or Lions Clubs International, and you’re likely to get one of the following reactions: blank stares, a story about a grandparent’s involvement or this question: Read More...
Integration in a pan
How to create a real melting pot Elbrich Fennema | December 2011 Issue If the playwright Israel Zangwill had been familiar with the Moroccan kitchen, he might have given his 1908 play about an assimilated society a title other than “The Melting Pot.” The term doesn’t reflect the utopian Read More...
Thinking outside the bank
Don't miss our first OdeNow event, Rock the Bank! Financial Innovation 2.0 with ING Direct’s CEO Arkadi Kuhlmann on February 1st at 5pm PST. We will be hosting a live event in San Francisco and simultaneously web-casting the event worldwide. Click here to register. How Arkadi Kuhlmann and ING Read More...
A (non-) sentimental education
Why learning the facts about stocks, bonds and annual reports is well worth your time. Amy Domini | December 2011 Issue When I was about 15, I learned about stocks and bonds, annual reports and accounting oversight. Financial education is simple, but people don’t know that. And because they Read More...
“You can’t garden nature”
Protecting ecosystems from non-native species stems from a “biological bias,” says biologist Mark Davis. Instead of dividing the world into native and non-native environments, scientists ought to judge species based on what they do, he says, not where they come from. Sam Rosenzweig | Read More...
The future of predictions
Why it’s so hard to make predictions—and how we can get better at it. Marco Visscher | December 2011 Issue Paul Ehrlich looked at the numbers and started to worry. At the turn of the 19th century, there were a billion people on Earth. In 1927, there were 2 billion. In 1960, 3 billion. The next Read More...
Learning to speak body language
Ode to dance4life Veerle Corstens | December 2011 Issue Dancing is a universal language. That’s why dance4life uses it in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Each year, the organization celebrates its successes with a dance event. Dance4life was founded by Dennis Karpes and Ilco van der Linde, Dutch Read More...
The future is behind us
To predict what is to come, we need eyes in the backs of our heads. Lisette Thooft | December 2011 Issue For as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to be able to see into the future, to know what lies ahead, what fate has in store. As a child, my favorite books featured characters with magical Read More...