Today’s Solutions: March 28, 2024

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The shoe fits

The shoe fits

Natalie Dean creates stylish footwear even vegans can love. | September 2006 Read More...

Guess what's coming to di

Guess what's coming to dinner?

A new film explores unsavory questions about genetically modified food Jeremy Iggers | Jan/Feb 2005 Read More...

99% inspiration

99% inspiration

We live in a world where it often seems that our fears outweigh our hope that things can get better. And, yes, there are many concerns worth worrying about. Yet, rather than running from the problems we must embrace a powerful tool that will help us overcome what's wrong-inspiration. It is a Read More...

Save the children

Save the children

Mary Kafuko gets kids off the street in Uganda Tijn Touber | Jan/Feb 2006 Read More...

Dozens of words for snow, none

Dozens of words for snow, none for pollution

The people of the Arctic face an impossible choice: abandon their traditional foods, or ingest high levels of poison from the rest of the world with every bite. Marla Cone | November 2005 issue On a sheet of ice where the Arctic Ocean meets the North Atlantic in the territorial waters of Read More...

4,000,000,000 new customers

4,000,000,000 new customers

Forget Tokyo's schoolgirls and Milan's fashionistas. Businesses seeking new customers should look to the world's 4 billion poor people. By serving this consumer market, they can make substantial money and, oh yes, relieve world poverty. Marco Visscher | April 2005 issue When the Indian firm Read More...

Are vegetables less healthy to

Are vegetables less healthy today?

The quality of agricultural land has declined at an alarming rate over the past century. Artificial fertilizer is thought to be the main culprit. Marco Visscher | September 2005 issue The quality of agricultural land has declined at an alarming rate over the past century. Artificial fertilizer Read More...

Blowing against the wind

Blowing against the wind

Five myths that threaten the future of wind power Tijn Touber | September 2006 issue Wind energy is taking off. Production increased fourfold between 1996 and 2004, according to Yes! (Spring 2006). The American Wind Energy Association, U.S. Department of Energy and National Renewable Energy Read More...

A man of vision

A man of vision

Dr. V. restores eyesight to India's poor Kim Ridley | December 2005 Read More...

A new kind of oil industry

A new kind of oil industry

Glenn Brendle heats his greenhouses with grease leftover from local restaurants--an innovation he says can help save small farmers. Jenn Carbin | May 2005 Read More...