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Growing appeal
The resurgence of timber in European buildingLuke Disney | December 2003 issue Who wood have thought it? Centuries after Europeans largely abandoned it in favour of more fire-resistant, stronger and more ‘modern’ alternatives, timber is showing signs of staging a comeback on the continent’s Read More...
Alternatives to war
Peace is possible, but is must be constantly won anew. Anita Roddick's last column for Ode. Anita Roddick | December 2003 issue The way things stand now war is just too easy. It’s too easy to send someone else’s children to fight and die. It is too easy to dehumanise the enemy, making people Read More...
The joy of what's fleeting
Truth and authenticity are relative terms in Japan. Imitation and reality intermingle. Are they in danger of losing sight of 'the truth'? Not as far as Pico Iyer is concerned. In fact, you appreciate your surroundings more once you grasp their transitory nature. Everything changes, except the Read More...
Becoming We
'We'-thinkers maintain their hard-won intellectual and emotional freedoms while connecting with the greater whole. Tijn Touber's column. Tijn Touber | December 2003 issue My friend Jaap has written a book about the transition that we, world citizens, are now facing: the transition to thinking in Read More...
Dare to love
From an evolutionary perspective sex is a relatively new phenomenon, which may be why we haven't quite yet mastered it. But the so loudly applauded advent of free sex appears to be undermining Western society. It is possible to bring together spirituality and love. Ode went in search of the love Read More...
Desire and love
Desire is the wish to consume. To imbibe, devour, ingest and digest -- annihilate. Desire needs no other prompt but the presence of alterity.Zygmunt Bauman | December 2003 issue Desire and love. Siblings. Sometimes born as twins; never, though, as identical (single egg) twins. Desire is the wish to Read More...
A tidy mind
Is your house full of junk? Never enough time to clean it all up? Don't kid yourself any longer. A tidy house is a tidy mind. Elbrich Fennema | December 2003 issue Messy people are brilliant at glossing over the untidy state in which they live. ‘It’s genetic. One day I might need that! It’s Read More...
Bending it unlike Beckham
Devinder Sharma asks how can a 'protein-rich' potato really stop malnourishment in India.Devinder Sharma | December 2003 issue I was taken by surprise. The BBC Radio presenter, who had been busy talking about football star David Beckham, suddenly shifted to genetically modified potatoes, and told Read More...
Only tomorrow's God can deliver us from today's evil
Religion has caused a lot of misery in the world, says Neale Donald Walsch. We need a modern Martin Luther to free us from the tyrannical bonds of our churches. It is time for a new spirituality to emerge on earth.Neale Donald Walsch| December 2003 issue For millennia we have looked to religion to Read More...
Radio Okapi eases chaos
African radio stations serve democracy Elbrich Fennema| December 2003 issue In Africa, radio plays an important role in the development of communities. Take Radio Okapi in Congo. ‘For many Congolese this radio station is the only good thing that’s happened to them over the past five years,’ Read More...