Today’s Solutions: March 29, 2024

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Hungry planet

Hungry planet

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...

Honey money

Honey money

Beekeeping helps lift Kenya's farmers out of poverty Kim Ridley | September 2005 Read More...

Great outdoors

Great outdoors

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...

Where there is waste there mig

Where there is waste there might be new products

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...

Empty oceans

Empty oceans

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...

Greetings from… everywhe

Greetings from... everywhere

A photo collection of Internet cafes around the world | October 2005 Read More...

Time for now

Time for now

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...

Matters of the heart

Matters of the heart

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...

Into the big wild

Into the big wild

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...

One last thing…

One last thing...

"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...