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Fresh and fruity
Leonard Freeke spent five years on developing the organic soft drink Oggu. July/August 2012 Issue | Elleke Bal Three years ago, on a December evening, Leonard Freeke was nervously walking through a factory in a Dutch town in the south of the country when the first bottle of Oggu rolled off the Read More...
Small is beautiful (and delicious!)
Eating less of a greater variety of dishes is the recipe for culinary satisfaction. Elbrich Fennema | July/August 2012 Issue Research into the eating habits that make us fat shows that low-calorie products do little to combat obesity. It turns out we stuff 50 percent more low-sugar M&Ms in our Read More...
Real healing
Taking your health and destiny into your own hands is the best route to well-being. Nanny Simon-de Vries | July/August 2012 Issue When disease strikes, it affects many of us like a bolt of lightning from a clear blue sky. It’s not easy to understand. After all, we weren’t in bad shape; our Read More...
Education starts with the future
[caption id="attachment_257135" align="alignleft" width="379"] Photo: Kyle Taylor via Flikr[/caption] Lessons about sexuality can be fun too. Karin Van Kooten | July/August 2012 Issue Isaac Kiyaga likes to work with computers. So the 16-year-old student at the Bukomero School, in the central Read More...
A reason to smile
[caption id="attachment_256812" align="alignleft" width="323"] Keela Dates, Executive Director - Reason2Smile - Lake Placid, New York[/caption] I am a board member for the nonprofit organization Reason2Smile, which is led by an extraordinary 27-year-old, Keela Dates. After graduating from college Read More...
Learning by doing
On the Tigerland Rice Farm in Thailand, tourists are put to work to learn where their food comes from. Marianne Lamers | July/August Issue 2012 Issue A new form of ecotourism has developed on the Watasittikul family’s land in Thailand: The family receives tourists who work up a sweat on their Read More...
The coolest of dreams
[caption id="attachment_254597" align="alignleft" width="576"] Rwandan students Ruth and Arnete drop by Inzozi Nziza as often a they can when on their way back from classes to the city center.[/caption] Inzozi Nziza is a sanctuary, an island of hope and joy in a country still aching from the Read More...
Poetry in motion
The Feldenkrais method of gentle, deliberate movement can help reduce the symptoms of chronic pain even as it lifts the spirit. Ursula Sautter | July/August 2012 Issue Slightly raising your leg from the ground is an astonishingly complex action. First, you bunch together your hip muscles, followed Read More...
Fair trade means fair transport
[caption id="attachment_251150" align="alignleft" width="369"] Photo: Berber van Beek[/caption] Green sailing: The schooner brig Tres Hombres is pioneering the “fair transport” industry. Marianne Lamers | May/June 2012 Issue It sounds like a romantic story about the Dutch East India Company: Read More...
Getting better all the time
[caption id="attachment_251119" align="alignleft" width="322"] Photo: Mishimoto via Flikr[/caption] Despite all the criticism of African governments, they are ensuring that more and more children attend school. Charles Kenny | May/June 2012 Issue The tide of skepticism about global development Read More...