Two photographers travelled the world to make portraits of families displaying all the food they eat in a week.
Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio | November 2005 Read More...
Being connected to nature boosts our physical and mental health--especially for kids.
Jay Walljasper | December 2005 issue
Has this ever happened to you? You’re having a bad day—everything’s going wrong and you become grumpier and grumpier. Finally, in desperation, you head out the door to Read More...
The efforts by John and Nancy ToddJay Walljasper | November 2004 issue
“Where there is waste, there might be new products,” declares John Todd, summing up 30 years of groundbreaking work in ecological engineering he has conducted with wife Nancy Jack Todd. Jack is the inventor, drawing on a Read More...
Favourite fish like cod, tuna and sole may disappear from our tables. It's up to us to solve the problem.
Tijn Touber | May 2005 issue
Over the past 30 years, global fish consumption has nearly doubled and the world’s fish can’t mate fast enough to keep up. The list of species threatened by Read More...
The perils of trying too hard to live in the present. Tijn Touber reflects on the dangers of living in the here and now.
Tijn Touber | July 2004 issue
Just back from talking with Eckhart Tolle about the importance of living in the “here and now”, I run across a column in the magazine Read More...
Children do better in school thanks to "heart computer"
Marco Visscher | June 2005 issue
A whirlpool. That’s what 11-year-old fifth-grader Bart Hazelhof thinks about when he wants to calm down. If Bart concentrates on the image of a whirlpool, his restless thoughts (about an argument, an Read More...
Suriname, a South American land covered by rainforest, is gambling that protecting nature will pay off better than destroying it. But this admirable plan depends on creating comfortable eco-resorts that can co-exist with rugged wilderness. American travel writer Joe Kane has his doubts and sets off Read More...
"You don't need eye glasses"
Tijn Touber | Jan/Feb 2006 issue
Everyone knows glasses are the only way to improve eyesight, right?
Jacob Liberman: “Not true! That’s what every doctor is being taught in school, but I have a direct experience. I always had trouble reading as a child—I thought I Read More...