Magzine November 2009

COLUMNS

Water, water, everywhere

What companies and consumers can do to conserve precious water resources.

 

The time is now

How long should we live with grief before asking for help?.

 

When god is a mother

Celebrating the mystery of life with Saint Sarah.

 

POSSIBILITIES

Five steps to better health through integrative medicine

How integrative medicine can make health care simpler, more effective and more affordable.

 

Meet the new boss

How green MBA programs produce graduates skilled in social and environmental stewardship.

 

Getting back in balance

 

PEOPLE

For the good of Gaia

Eco-visionary James Lovelock believes catastrophic climate change is on the way—and we should start preparing for it now.

 

PASSION

Grief is good

Why the burden of mourning is lighter when shared.

 

Lost and found.

 

The laying on of hands

 

COMMENTARIES

Who’s afraid of billions of people?

Attempts to cajole, coerce and convince people to have fewer kids are wrong.

 

FOOD

Get rich slow with risotto

nvesting time in this dish pays off with great taste.

 

ONE LAST THING...

People can make their own glasses

Joshua Silver, a professor of physics at the University of Oxford, invented adaptive spectacles, or "adspecs," as a way to bring vision correction to the half of the world's population that currently needs glasses but does not have access to an optometrist. He wants to see a billion people having vision correction by 2020.