The next ecological and social revolution is being plotted right now in the rainforests of South America
Jay Walljasper| March 2007 issue
Our small boat bobs along the unimaginably wide Amazon River, then heads up a fast-flowing tributary the colour of tea with cream, and finally turns onto a Read More...
Finding wholeness at 30,000 feet
Tijn Touber| March 2007 issue
A friend who was juggling a myriad of personal problems had to take a long overseas flight for business. Rigid with tension, she was desperate for a couple of hours’ sleep but was wedged into a middle seat between two large men. She Read More...
Neale Donald Walsch, author of Conversations with God, responds to biologist Richard Dawkins' assertion that God does not exist in any form.
Neale Donald Walsch| March 2007 issue
English scientist Richard Dawkins ignited a fierce debate with his book The God Delusion (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) - Read More...
A lesson from sports champions: The power of intention changes reality. Your health. Your career. Your world.
Lynne McTaggart | Jan/Feb 2007 issue
Seven weeks before Muhammad Ali met World Heavyweight Champion George Foreman for their “rumble in the jungle” at Kinshasa in 1975, Ali practised Read More...
Ricardo Semler's employees set their hours, determine their salaries and choose their bosses. Meet the Brazilian businessman who does everything differently.
Dominique Haijtema | Jan/Feb 2007 issue
His favourite questions start with "why.” Why should employees feel compelled to read their emails Read More...
Seoul, South Korea, puts a new spin on progress by bulldozing a highway to build a park.
John Vidal| March 2007 issue
A year ago, several million people headed to a spot in the centre of Seoul, the capital of South Korea, to celebrate the opening of a new park. This was obviously not your ordinary Read More...
A conversation with Chico Whitaker, founder of the World Social Forum and latest winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize
Marco Visscher | Jan/Feb 2007 issue
Tension hung in the air. The third World Social Forum (WSF) was to be held the next day and Porto Alegre’s university was preparing for an Read More...
Protests about the book and movie spread to the Muslim world, uniting disparate believers.
Najiba Abdellaoui | Jan/Feb 2007 issue
The controversial religious thriller The Da Vinci Code prompted a firestorm of debate across the Arab world. In Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Jordan, the movie Read More...
Muslim stand-up comic Shazia Mirza shatters taboos all around.
Tijn Touber| Jan/Feb 2007 issue
My name is Shazia Mirza; at least that’s what it says on my pilot’s licence.” This is how Muslim stand-up comedienne Shazia Mirza opened her routine after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It had taken Read More...
By bringing computers into slums, an Indian physicist shows that illiterate children can educate themselves - and help their country progress.
Lex Veldhoen | Jan/Feb 2007 issue
The alleys are narrow in Madangir, a slum on the edge of New Delhi. Rickety huts crammed together house emigrants from Read More...