Miscellaneous
A new kind of oil industry
Glenn Brendle heats his greenhouses with grease leftover from local restaurants--an innovation he says can help save small farmers. Jenn Carbin | May 2005 Read More...
Notes of a native great-great grandson
Exploring Old World roots gives me a fresh perspective on immigration issues Jay Walljasper | December 2004 issue En route to Ode’s Rotterdam office last month, I took part in what is becoming a familiar ritual for many Americans: meeting the European cousins. The Walljasper clan hails from Read More...
Sustainable extravagance
A new vision of the industrial economy sees the world as a cherry tree William McDonough and Michael Braungart | November 2004 issue Nature is nothing if not extravagant. Four billion years of natural design, has yielded such a profusion of biological forms we can barely grasp the diversity of Read More...
Category 2: Fair trade products
The candidates for the category 'The best fair trade product' | October 2004 issue Meat substitute The holy food of the Incas One of the world’s best-kept food secrets! This is how quinoa is sometimes described. It is an extremely nutritious grain from the Andes mountains, which the Incas Read More...
The real meaning of security
Our obsession with protecting ourselves makes us less safe. That's the message from Eve Ensler, who travels the globe to end violence against women. Eve Ensler | October 2005 issue I am worried about our single-minded focus on security. I see this word, hear this word, feel this word everywhere. Read More...
Sting & his guitar
'I will reapply the needle of the record player again and again to the bars of music that seem beyond my analysis, like a safecracker picking a lock, until the prize is mine.' Sting's personal story on the making of a musical legend. Sting | September 2004 issue Music has always been my refuge Read More...
Children and other living things
Gregory Colbert's amazing photos of animal life | June 2005 Read More...
Why faster is not better
Speedy transport means you spend more, not less, time in your car. Tijn Touber | July 2004 issue In a time when cars, trains and airplanes move faster than ever, you would expect we would reach all of our destinations more quickly. Strangely enough, that’s usually not the case, according to Read More...
Poor countries are guinea pigs for pharmaceutical tests
Poor countries are guinea pigs for pharmaceutical tests Tijn Touber| October 2006 issue John Le Carré’s bestselling novel The Constant Gardener showed how pharmaceutical companies test new medicines in Africa, even when troubling questions exist about their safety and reliability. Unfortunately, Read More...
If games had come before books...
In his book Everything Bad Is Good For You, Steven Johnson contends that video games and television programs are making us increasingly intelligent. What if video and computer games had been invented first, he wonders, and books had come later? | September 2006 issue “Reading books chronically Read More...