Today’s Solutions: March 29, 2024

Total number of posts: 22655

Go with the wind

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

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

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

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

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

Green good news

How bright ideas from Swedish towns could inspire an ecological revolution | December 2004 Read More...

How do chemicals get in our bo

How do chemicals get in our bodies?

Marco Visscher | November 2005 issue 1. Food is one way chemicals get into our bodies. Residues of pesticides remain on the vegetables, fruit and other things we eat. Of the tens of thousands of pesticides that are used worldwide, only a few hundred have been tested for their effect on Read More...

Iran's soccer revolution

Iran's soccer revolution

Women who dared to celebrate a World Cup victory may eventually change the face of the Middle East Franklin Foer / How Soccer Explains the World | Jan/Feb 2005 issue When future historians discuss the political transformation of the Middle East, they may highlight the day Iranian women invaded Read More...

Chief Confidence Officer

Chief Confidence Officer

In war-ravaged Macedonia, conflict mediator Elena Gulmadova makes a career of building trust between Muslims and Christians. | September 2006 Read More...

There is not enough africa in

There is not enough africa in computers

Brian Eno - artist, composer, inventor, thinker - spoke to Wired about the meaning of Africa for music and technology. Kevin Kelly | September 2004 issue "Africa is everything that something like classical music isn’t. Classical—perhaps I should say “orchestral”—music is so digital, so Read More...