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"I can grown my own dinner"
Lisa Taylor, author of Your Farm in The City: An Urban Dweller's Guide to Growing Food and Raising Animals, says organic, local food never tasted better Babette Dunkelgrün | June 2011 Read More...
Professor Hydrogen
Bragi Jurriaan Kamp | June 2007 issue Everyone used to laugh whenever he started talking about hydrogen power. But Icelander Bragi Árnason was unfazed, and continued his research into how his country could end its dependency on imported fossil fuels. To him, it made perfect sense. Iceland has Read More...
Hip hop = freedom
Don Popo raps about a better future for Colombia's kids. Marco Visscher| June 2007 issue Halfway through our conversation, Don Popo's eyes suddenly begin to sparkle. Don't you get it? they seem to ask. "To us, hip hop isn't simply a music style," he patiently explains. "To us, hip hop is a way of Read More...
Our hearts are full of memory
Transplant patients sometimes take on part of their donors' personalities. Jurriaan Kamp| June 2007 issue Glenda lost her husband, David, in a car crash. She made his organs available for transplant. A few years later, as part of a study by neuropsychologist Paul Pearsall, she met the young Read More...
The forgotten thinker you need to know
Thirty years ago, Ivan Illich raised questions on the promise of progress. The blind faith in modern development and technology was a threat to human's freedom, he argued. That critical analysis was one of the pillars for the Ode founders. In 2001, a year before Illich died at the age of 76, Read More...
Love thy neighbour, for he is me
Who wants to care for people if care has become institutionalized? While modern society leaves little room for random kindness, there's good news: Everyone can learn the basics of altruism. Ode goes back to the Samaritan, because receiving is inherent in giving. Tijn Touber| June 2007 issue Two Read More...
Remembering the battle of Seattle
Even before the emergence of a movement against the unchecked power of global corporations, Ode was already regularly reporting about the shadow side of globalization. So our editorial staff was not at all surprised in 1999 when so many people gathered for a mass demonstration during the summit Read More...
Three cheers for crazy ideas
This world really does need more of these wonderful heretics Anita Roddick| June 2007 issue Every real change, every revolutionary idea, every heartfelt gesture, whether it transforms one life or a thousand, was once seen as eccentric. Leaders are few and followers many for a reason: Change Read More...
The instinct to save the planet
Do the million grassroots green and social organizations work as an immune system that's working to stop injustice and pollution? Paul Hawken on the biggest movement in the history of humankind that has come just on time. Paul Hawken| May 2007 issue Over the past 15 years, I have given nearly one Read More...
Bright hopes, big city
Solutions for the problems of growing megacities can be found in their slums and shantytowns. Jay Walljasper | May 2007 issue Blame it on rappers, the old movie Blade Runner or the Bible. No matter the culprit, scenes of urban depravity - from "gangsta" ghettos to Gomorrah - are repeated so often Read More...