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Getting onto the grid
Jeremy Rifkin, author of The Third Industrial Revolution, spoke to Ode’s Jurriaan Kamp about the coming age of distributed, collaborative power. Jurriaan Kamp | October/November Issue How do industrial revolutions happen? “When you look at history, the great -economic revolutions occur Read More...
Do-it-yourself salsa verde
Put down that shopping list and improvise! Elbrich Fennema | September 2011 Issue There was a time when a recipe didn’t begin with a shopping list, but with what you had picked or caught yourself. A little later, we started with what grew in our own kitchen gardens or fields. Supply determined Read More...
Creativity without control
Why leaders need to be more like hosts and less like heroes. Margaret Wheatley | October/November 2011 Issue Photo: sookie via Flickr Computers can’t function without an operating system. The operating system manages all interactions and communications between the computer hardware and Read More...
Vanishing point
How tourism—yes, tourism—can help preserve endangered cultural heritage sites and boost local economies. Andrew Tolve | September 2011 Issue The developing world is a tough place to preach conservation. A site with priceless cultural value in the minds of archeologists often doesn’t stand a Read More...
The descent of woman
Did our ancestors climb down from the trees in order to walk upright? No, says Elaine Morgan. Humans evolved in water. Jonathan Maas | September 2011 Issue What do scientists do when they realize they’re on the wrong track? For Elaine Morgan, that’s a rhetorical question: “They carry on as if Read More...
Designing change
Ode to Mushmina | Marrakech, Morocco Kristy Crabtree | September 2011 Issue After buying a $350 carpet at a MarraKech souk, Heather O’Neill experienced buyer’s -remorse. She learned that the weavers, all women, sold their intricate, handcrafted rugs to a middleman for only $10, not knowing the Read More...
Cash and consciousness
How money enhances creativity and relationships. William Bloom | September 2011 Issue I woke one morning with a dream of how money works, what money is and why money is. The main image was of a swirling golden vortex or tornado, narrow at its base, rising wider and wider. It was made up of Read More...
Take a hike!
How attention restoration theory shows that nature sharpens the mind. Jonathan Maas | September 2011 Issue When he gets to school in the morning, he’s hyper. Mentally restless, he jiggles his arms and legs, fiddles with his keys, pens and anything else his hands can reach. The reason for his Read More...
Every picture tells a story
Never mistake an explanation for the thing it explains. Paulo Coelho | October/November Issue Warriors of the Light are not afraid of having others think they are crazy. They talk to themselves loudly when they are alone. Someone once passed down the wisdom that this is the best way to communicate Read More...
Hell no, we won’t invest
If you don’t support war, make sure your investments don’t either. Amy Domini | October/November 2011 Issue In general, I’m against war. Perhaps this comes from being the daughter of a man who spent his childhood in hiding and his young teen years fighting “The Dictator,” as he put it. Read More...