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Reflections on the generous life
How to share the power of generosity at home, at work and around the world. Mike Dickson | December 2011 issue For 30 years, most of us in the Western world have been having a party. We have been encouraged to be self-sufficient and independent, to become successful and rich, to search for true Read More...
Greet this moment as a friend
The benefits of Buddhist wisdom during difficult times. Sylvia Boorstein | September 2011 Issue In the Zen Buddhist tradition, teachers save their pithy instructions for their last breath in this life. As they’re dying, with their final-exhalations, they utter the culmination of their Read More...
Living in the gift
Why we need to restore a sense of the sacred to the economy. Charles Eisenstein | September 2011 Issue Today, we associate money with the profane and for good reason. If anything is sacred in this world, it is surely not money. Money seems to be the enemy of our better instincts, as is clear every Read More...
Ode to Hang Son Doong Vietnam
Journey to the center of the Earth Marco Visscher | October/November 2011 Issue If someone—a gloomy teenager, a cheerless ex-adventurer—sighs that everything has already been done, every place in the world already traversed, send him or her to Vietnam. The country’s numerous caves are Read More...
Ode to Lily Yeh
Andrea Hammer | October/November 2011 Issue Ode to Lily Yeh Beijing, China In her new book, Awakening Creativity: Dandelion SchoolBlossoms, Lily Yeh writes that she does not consider herself brave. Yet as the founder of Barefoot Arists, a non-profit group that creates social change with art, she Read More...
Speaking in tongues
Why the Oro Win are fighting to preserve their native language—and what that means for the rest of us. James Geary | October/November 2011 Issue When I started learning Dutch, the word that gave me the most trouble by far was “gezellig.” As an American newly arrived in the Read More...
“The hammock allows you to feel content”
Eoin Finn on the art of helping people connect with each other and the Earth. Molly Berkemeier | October/November 2011 Issue Eoin Finn is the author of the book Blissology, in which he describes the art of tuning into the force that makes people feel connected with each other and with Read More...
Be a rebel!
Improve your well-being by focusing on promoting health instead of preventing illness. H.C. Moolenburgh | October/November 2011 Issue Many billions have been spent on cancer research in recent years. So you would think by now we’d have a good idea of what cancer is, why it is the most crippling Read More...
Getting onto the grid
Jeremy Rifkin, author of The Third Industrial Revolution, spoke to Ode’s Jurriaan Kamp about the coming age of distributed, collaborative power. Jurriaan Kamp | October/November Issue How do industrial revolutions happen? “When you look at history, the great -economic revolutions occur Read More...
Do-it-yourself salsa verde
Put down that shopping list and improvise! Elbrich Fennema | September 2011 Issue There was a time when a recipe didn’t begin with a shopping list, but with what you had picked or caught yourself. A little later, we started with what grew in our own kitchen gardens or fields. Supply determined Read More...