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Where there is waste there might be new products
The efforts by John and Nancy ToddJay Walljasper | November 2004 issue “Where there is waste, there might be new products,” declares John Todd, summing up 30 years of groundbreaking work in ecological engineering he has conducted with wife Nancy Jack Todd. Jack is the inventor, drawing on a Read More...
Empty oceans
Favourite fish like cod, tuna and sole may disappear from our tables. It's up to us to solve the problem. Tijn Touber | May 2005 issue Over the past 30 years, global fish consumption has nearly doubled and the world’s fish can’t mate fast enough to keep up. The list of species threatened by Read More...
Greetings from... everywhere
A photo collection of Internet cafes around the world | October 2005 Read More...
Time for now
The perils of trying too hard to live in the present. Tijn Touber reflects on the dangers of living in the here and now. Tijn Touber | July 2004 issue Just back from talking with Eckhart Tolle about the importance of living in the “here and now”, I run across a column in the magazine Read More...
Matters of the heart
Children do better in school thanks to "heart computer" Marco Visscher | June 2005 issue A whirlpool. That’s what 11-year-old fifth-grader Bart Hazelhof thinks about when he wants to calm down. If Bart concentrates on the image of a whirlpool, his restless thoughts (about an argument, an Read More...
Into the big wild
Suriname, a South American land covered by rainforest, is gambling that protecting nature will pay off better than destroying it. But this admirable plan depends on creating comfortable eco-resorts that can co-exist with rugged wilderness. American travel writer Joe Kane has his doubts and sets off Read More...
One last thing...
"You don't need eye glasses" Tijn Touber | Jan/Feb 2006 issue Everyone knows glasses are the only way to improve eyesight, right? Jacob Liberman: “Not true! That’s what every doctor is being taught in school, but I have a direct experience. I always had trouble reading as a child—I thought I Read More...
Listen to the animals
Can pets and wildlife warn us of the next tsunami or earthquake? Marco Visscher | July/Aug 2005 issue Elephants in Sri Lanka, Thailand and the Indonesian island of Sumatra moved to higher ground before the tsunami struck last December. According to a villager in Bang Koey, Thailand, a herd of Read More...
In kids we trust
A new movement is increasingly grabbing attention: democratic schools. What happens when children get a say in their own education? Kim Ridley went in search of the answer for Ode. Kim Ridley | March 2005 issue While his peers at other schools were memorizing their multiplication tables, Ken Read More...
You don't have to be Muslim...
With Ramadan approaching on 15th October, this can be an invitation to anybody who feels the need for "profound soul searching". A woman describes her initiation into the annual fasts. Cyntha Gonzalez-Kabil | October 2004 issue With Ramadan approaching on 15th October, this can be an invitation to Read More...