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"swinging is liberating and meditative." Says Jennifer Tschoepe. Jay Walljasper | October 2004 issue Isn’t swinging just for kids? “Sure, it seems so. Why shouldn’t we as adults be able to enjoy this simple escape? Have we grown up so much that we are embarrassed to be seen having Read More...
Homeopathy's new frontiers
Kim Ridley | Jan/Feb 2006 issue Homeopaths have developed remedies over the past 200 years using everything from table salt to snake venom. Their catalogue of healing substances is vast and still growing. Expanding the frontiers of the field is Dutch homeopath Jan Scholten, who many say is Read More...
Good vibrations
A musical form of meditation known as kirtan offers fun on the road to enlightenment--even for people who swore they would never meditate. Maggie Kuhn Jacobus | October 2005 issue A friend confided a dark personal secret to me at a party the other night. “I don’t meditate,” he said, Read More...
How one new company brought hope to one of the world's poorest countries
By selling mobile phones in Bangladesh, GrameenPhone has made an important contributoin to the fortues of poor villagers. Marco Visscher | April 2005 issue "The battle against poverty has gained a surprisingly effective ally: business. By treating the poor like clients and consumers, they are Read More...
Go with the wind
Not fast, but certainly a lot of fun: a hot air balloon is the perfect way to travel from A to Wherever The Wind Takes You. Sam Jordison | September 2004 issue Modern life has taken all the mystery out of the skies. Flying on a airplane is the most boring thing you can do while still being Read More...
Rain forest management
The efforts by Tachi Kiuchi and Bill ShiremanTijn Touber | November 2004 issue In 1994 the chairmen of Mitsubishi and Global Futures, Tachi Kiuchi and Bill Shireman, visited the rainforest in Borneo. Their aim: to research the economy of nature. They found the rain forest fascinating not only Read More...
There and then
Tijn Touber | July 2004 issue He arrived at a place where most people rarely go: the here and now. And Eckhart Tolle definitely plans to stay there. Because in the here and now there are no problems; they belong to the future or the past. Tijn Touber spoke with the man who is living proof of his Read More...
Fantasy on film
In Ghana dreams are being immortalized. Philip Kwame Apagya photographs people living out their dreams. Plilip Kwame Apagya | July/Aug 2005 Read More...
Eating at home
Food travels thousands of miles before ending up on our plate. While travelling, the taste doesn't get any better. This globalization of the food supply has serious consequences for the environment, our health, our communities and our tastebuds. A new movement is emerging to bring home the bacon, Read More...
Green good news
How bright ideas from Swedish towns could inspire an ecological revolution | December 2004 Read More...