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Eating at home
Food travels thousands of miles before ending up on our plate. While travelling, the taste doesn't get any better. This globalization of the food supply has serious consequences for the environment, our health, our communities and our tastebuds. A new movement is emerging to bring home the bacon, Read More...
Green good news
How bright ideas from Swedish towns could inspire an ecological revolution | December 2004 Read More...
How do chemicals get in our bodies?
Marco Visscher | November 2005 issue 1. Food is one way chemicals get into our bodies. Residues of pesticides remain on the vegetables, fruit and other things we eat. Of the tens of thousands of pesticides that are used worldwide, only a few hundred have been tested for their effect on Read More...
Iran's soccer revolution
Women who dared to celebrate a World Cup victory may eventually change the face of the Middle East Franklin Foer / How Soccer Explains the World | Jan/Feb 2005 issue When future historians discuss the political transformation of the Middle East, they may highlight the day Iranian women invaded Read More...
Chief Confidence Officer
In war-ravaged Macedonia, conflict mediator Elena Gulmadova makes a career of building trust between Muslims and Christians. | September 2006 Read More...
There is not enough africa in computers
Brian Eno - artist, composer, inventor, thinker - spoke to Wired about the meaning of Africa for music and technology. Kevin Kelly | September 2004 issue "Africa is everything that something like classical music isn’t. Classical—perhaps I should say “orchestral”—music is so digital, so Read More...
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
Beekeeping helps lift Kenya's farmers out of poverty Kim Ridley | September 2005 Read More...
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 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...