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The new black gold?
Biochar - charcoal derived from burning plants - can boost crop yields and help fight climate change. Andrew Tolve | July/August 2010 issue In the summer of 2002, scientist and entrepreneur Danny Day sent a lab assistant to retrieve some charcoal from behind Day’s lab in Blakely, Read More...
Activism for beginners
How three friends rescued hundreds of Uganda's child soldiers. Marco Visscher | July/August 2010 issue Lauren Grace had never read a piece of Congressional legislation. “It’s pretty dry reading,” she says. But one January night this year, the 25-year-old University of Oklahoma student Read More...
The female way of leadership
What do Dante and female leaders have in common? The ability to lead others by first understanding themselves. Karin Jironet | July/August 2010 issue We need more than multinationals to achieve economic Read More...
The buck starts here
Want a quicker exit from the financial crisis? Create new consumers by putting money into the hands of the lowest earners. David Servan-Schreiber | July/August 2010 issue We need more than multinationals to achieve economic Read More...
High-touch help
Simple human contact can help reduce physical pain and emotional anxiety. David Servan-Schreiber | July/August 2010 issue Carla has fallen off her bike and has a bad cut above her eye. She’s bleeding; she’s shaking; her head hurts. Her husband Jack has called an ambulance, but Read More...
A monument to change
How a villain, a saint and a gallows transformed a city. Paulo Coelho | July/August 2010 issue We need more than multinationals to achieve economic Read More...
Evolution on a plate
Seaweed is one of the ocean's oldest, and most delicious, treasures. Elbrich Fennema | July/August 2010 issue To know where you’re going, you have to know where you’ve been. Of course, each of us has our own history, which has brought us to where we are today. But we also share a Read More...
Taking root in the city
How urban agriculture is changing our relationship with food - for good. Casey Miner | July/August 2010 Issue Dave Bell still remembers the tomatoes that changed his life—gorgeous, almost iridescent tomatoes glowing on a shelf at the Liberty Heights Fresh food market in Salt Lake City, Utah. Dave Read More...
Yes and people"'Yes,and' people invent the airplane;'yes,but' people invent the parachute"
According to bestselling author Berthold Gunster, saying "yes, and" rather than "yes, but" is the key to creativity and innovation. HetkanWel | July/August 2010 “Picture this: You have a good idea and the only thing you hear are ‘yes, but’s. ‘Yes, but that didn’t work before Read More...
Your brain is a rain forest
People with conditions like ADHD, dyslexia and mood disorders are routinely labeled "disabled". But differences among brains are as enriching—and essential—as differences among plants and animals. Welcome to the new field of neurodiversity. Thomas Armstrong | April/May 2010 issue Imagine for a Read More...