Nature's air filter
From The Intelligent Optimist Magazine Fall/Winter 2016 Air pollution is responsible for roughly 7 million deaths worldwide every year. Air-borne pollutants also cause heart disease, stroke, skin diseases, reduced fertility and miscarriage, and cancer. There’s a solution: Plants that clean the Read More...
Nature's air filter
From The Intelligent Optimist Magazine Fall/Winter 2016 Air pollution is responsible for roughly 7 million deaths worldwide every year. Air-borne pollutants also cause heart disease, stroke, skin diseases, reduced fertility and miscarriage, and cancer. There’s a solution: Plants that clean the Read More...
The dehydration myth
From The Optimist Magazine Fall/Winter 2016 If you find yourself confused about whether to drink eight glasses of water a day or twenty, chances are you’re overthinking it. There’s a perfect system that tells you when you need to drink: It’s called thirst. By KARIN KLEIN Dehydration has Read More...
Meeting the guru
From The Optimist Magazine Summer 2014 Author of international bestsellers, including The Pilgrimage and The Alchemist. paulocoelhoblog.com I met Mick Brown at Frankfurt airport. He works as a journalist on The Daily Telegraph in London and had been sent to interview me during a stopover between Read More...
Back to nature
From The Optimist Magazine Summer 2014 For most of my life, I have enjoyed taking long walks by myself in the woods and fields. When I was a young girl, these walks might have lasted a couple of hours. We lived in the Berkshire foothills, so the woods were hilly and full of boulders. As I grew into Read More...
On the road
Books that Inspire From The Optimist Magazine Summer 2014 A Philosophy of Walking | Frédéric Gros |Verso Books The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was a great, indefatigable walker, whose hikes were long and sometimes steep. Immanuel Kant’s daily walk, by contrast, was always very Read More...
Inspiration: Products
Products that Inspire From The Optimist Magazine Summer 2014 Super sunscreen When Holly Thaggards’ friend was diagnosed with melanoma eight years ago, she was surprised that someone so young and healthy could get skin cancer. And not much later, she learned that 90 percent of the signs of Read More...
In good company
Inspiration From The Optimist Magazine Summer 2014 Is there room for idealists inside Fortune 500 companies? Christine Bader’s book The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil chronicles the time she spent with BP, and what it was like to be a corporate idealist in one of the Read More...
Courage is every day
Possibility Commentary From The Optimist Magazine Summer 2014 It’s easy to get pessimistic. We have large-scale terror attacks, the environment might have reached a “no going back” tipping point, and there’s always the next health crisis around the corner. In these moments, the critical Read More...
Organizing is much like sports
Possibility From The Optimist Magazine Summer 2014 Otto Scharmer can be considered an expert on leadership. Focusing his work on evolutionary stages of complex living systems, such as organizations, his book Theory U became an international bestseller. He’s a senior lecturer at MIT, Read More...