Magzine July-Aug 2006

BUSINESS

Desperately seeking solutions

Why are Indian cotton farmers committing suicide? And what can be done to help them?

 

Editor’s letter: Pro authenticity

Dressed in white

 

Making the most of this historic moment

The green movement is ready to come back home

 Think like a fish

Iceland's Orri Vigf

 Why green is the new black

Ecological living makes a hit in the mainstream media

 

LIFE

One last thing…

"We need a tax on energy and natural resources"

 

Survival of the real-est

Authenticity is the word on everyone's tongues right now. More than a trend, it's a revolution that is transforming our work, our politics and our lives.

 

The biggest city you’ve never heard of

With 10 million inhabitants and half a million more each year, Chongqing is the fastest-growing urban centre on the planet. Jonathan Watts spends 24 hours in the city of tomorrow.

 

The incredible edible landscape

There's a bounty of delicious food right under your feet--and in the bushes, and over by that fence

 

Think global, act natural

Nature directs us to the best solutions for pollution and poverty. Ode sat down for a conversation with biologist Elisabet Sahtouris.

 

HEALTH

Healing by design

The hospital of the future may not look like a hospital at all

 

I love orange juice

Research points to lack of vitamin C, rather than fat, as the leading cause of heart disease

 

Our natural instinct to heal

No more Freud. No more Prozac. French psychiatrist David Servan-Schreiber shows how the body can heal stress, anxiety and depression.

 

SPIRIT

Be The Beatles

It's time to remake the world the way they did

 

The bad effects of good conscience

German therapist Bert Hellinger makes the case for knowing your dark side