Magzine March 2009

COLUMNS

Why investing in fast-food may be a good thing

Social entrepreneurs see the economic upheaval as a chance to go mainstream.

 

When hope heals

How a positive sense of calm and control can help combat disease.

 

SCIENCE

Improve mental health with neurofeedback

How you can train your brain to help reduce stress, enhance creativity and improve mental health.

 

How to choose a neurofeedback practitioner

 

BUSINESS

In search of nature’s pharmacy

 

Social entrepreneurs go mainstream

Never let a crisis go to waste. Social entrepreneurs take this economic upheaval to be a blessing, providing a chance for business to transition from an anonymous, complex system to one that is direct and transparent.

 

Interview with Stacey Monk, founder of Epic Change

 

ENERGY

Blue Energy: A potential source of renewable energy

What do you get when saltwater and fresh water meet? A clean, renewable source of power called blue energy.

 

SPIRIT

Good morning, world. This is your wake-up call

Physicist-turned-futurist Peter Russell argues that only communal creativity can get us through current environmental and economic crises.

 

Submit a question for Peter Russell

Peter Russell is a physicist-turned-futurist who has written several books on science, spirituality, and the possibility of change through increased communication and collective consciousness. He has held workshops with corporate leaders about becoming more environmentally responsible, more worker-friendly, and more aware of their impact on the planet. Do you have questions about collective thinking? What attitudes and beliefs contribute to our current economic crisis? How can we reverse negative trends? Please use the comment board below to ask your questions and Peter Russell will respond shortly.

 

COMMENTARIES

An address I hope President Obama will deliver

What he needs to say and do to create an economy that serves human rather than financial values

 

Contest: Write an address you hope President Obama would deliver

 

FOOD

The Tao of pickles

Treat your intestines to some bacteria today.

 

TURNING WORDS

A buried past lives underground

An aphorism by James Geary, author of The World in a Phrase and Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists.

 

ONE LAST THING...

Brown is the new green

Advertisers love the word "green." British journalist Nick Rosen doesn't - not anymore. On off-grid.net, the website he edits, he argues environmentalists should wear a different color now.