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Damned lies and statistics
Amy Domini | July/August 2011 issue As a kid on Cape Cod, I’d get really frustrated with a ground-dwelling bird that lived all around us. The Virginia quail (or bobwhite) had the most annoying call. At dawn it would start in, tentatively, “Bob? Bob White?” This would repeat until you Read More...
Ode to Shanah Trevenna
[caption id="attachment_105700" align="alignnone" width="280"] Photo: University of Hawaii[/caption] Samuel Rosenzweig | July/August 2011 issue When graduate student Shanah Trevenna approached her professor with a proposal to make Hawaii a self-sustaining state, she didn’t get the reaction she Read More...
Standing in the light
How Johan Boswinkel is using biophotons, the faint light waves emitted by cells, to help the body heal. Jurriaan Kamp | July/August 2011 issue Warning: this story is about a man who has developed a groundbreaking new therapy: healing with light. The man is not a doctor. Nor is he an accredited Read More...
Prelude to courage
How anger can improve health, enhance intimacy, spur creativity and even inspire social change. Diana Rico | June 2011 issue It’s the 1980s, and I am sitting in the Beverly Hills living room of a major 1950s television star, alongside my romantic and sometimes writing partner. I have obtained a Read More...
Three cheers for the fourth-sector economy
The highest priority of corporations should be the common good - just as it used to be. Terry Mollner | December 2007 issue Last year, Google’s directors took a step that did not get much attention but could take our social/political/economic world to the next level of maturity. They decided Read More...
Optimism 2.0
How an optimistic outlook can help improve your state of health, not just your state of mind. Mary Desmond Pinkowish | September 2010 issue Admit it. Secretly you think optimistic people are just a little annoying—their constant, insufferable smiling; the way they’re always looking on the Read More...
Beyond sustainability
It takes more than growth and development for a city, an economy or an ecosystem to flourish—it takes resilience. Baal,Van,Mark | September 2010 issue Biloxi is gone. That’s what Toshiro Kida, a 21-year-old graphic design student at Yale University, thought when he arrived in the Mississippi Read More...
The future is now
Why it's so hard to save for the long term - and how to start saving sooner. Adam Smith | September 2010 issue We need more than multinationals to achieve economic Read More...
The slow road to growth
The Slow Money movement aims to change financial markets — and enhance well-being — through investments in local food systems. Amy Domini | September 2010 issue On May 6, 2010, the world of Wall Street went crazy. A sudden frenzy of selling began. Fine blue chip stocks plummeted to levels Read More...
Talk dirty to me
While investors look to the promise of clean energy, "dirty tech" - technology that tidies up polluting industries - may offer more immediate ecological and financial gains. Mark Baal, van | September 2010 issue We need more than multinationals to achieve economic Read More...