Ode Magazine

All the kenaf that’s fit to print

Carol Greenhouse — 2008-04-09T15:31:17-04:00

We don't need trees to make paper.

An artistic blow to the face

Ton Maas — 2008-04-09T15:31:17-04:00

CD Review: Punch by Punch Brothers.

And the winners are...

2008-04-09T15:31:17-04:00

Read more about the other Goldman Environmental Prize winners, individuals who are taking on corporate interests to improve the environment.

Carrots in concert

Josey Duncan — 2008-04-09T15:31:17-04:00

The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra makes it cool to play with your food.

Do-it-yourself wind power

Diane Daniel — 2008-04-09T15:31:17-04:00

Hand-made wind turbine powers owners camper.

I defeat my enemy when I make him my friend

Elik Elhanan — 2008-04-09T15:31:17-04:00

Three stories about people who have confronted tragedy yet managed to see a way to get beyond rage and revenge and move toward reconciliation.

Marching to the beat of a different drum

Marco Visscher and James Geary — 2008-04-09T15:31:17-04:00

Activism used to be all about what was wrong. Now, from executive suites to department stores, "new activists" are showing us how to get things right.

Video: Niroga at work

2008-04-09T15:31:17-04:00

Niroga Institute is a non-profit Center for Integral Health and Development dedicated to providing life skills to at-risk and underserved individuals and families through Yoga. With over 50 Certified Yoga Teachers in the Yoga Corps, they are reaching out to several hundred people a week, including homeless, delinquent and incarcerated youth, people in rehab and recovery, and seniors. In addition to increasing strength, endurance, flexibility, and balance we help self-transformation by enhancing self-control and self-awareness, stress resilience and anger management - peace within leading to universal peace. You can hear directly from Niroga's students in this 8-minute video highlighting their work with at-risk youth.

No more business as usual

Amy Domini — 2008-04-09T15:31:17-04:00

How social investors can help bring about corporate and political change.

Video: Outsourcings new post

2008-04-09T15:31:17-04:00

Village in Sri Lanka gets connected to the world economy.

Outsourcing’s new outpost

Marco Visscher — 2008-04-09T15:31:17-04:00

Villagers in Sri Lanka get connected to the world economy.

Puerto Rico's clean-up woman

Josey Duncan — 2008-04-09T15:31:17-04:00

Rosa Hilda Ramos is cleaning up Puerto Rico.

Reasons to be cheerful

Jay Walljasper — 2008-04-09T15:31:17-04:00

The state of green business.

Video: Simon Atem tells his story

2008-04-09T15:31:17-04:00

Simon Atem tells the story of how he escaped a war in Sudan. Now he plans to build a school where kids learn about right and wrong. Here he tells us why his story is so important.

Small can be healthy

Ursula Sautter — 2008-04-09T15:31:17-04:00

Toxins like radon and even DDT may have beneficial effects at very low doses.

Stretching themselves to the limit

Josey Duncan — 2008-04-09T15:31:17-04:00

The Niroga Institute brings the benefits of yoga to minority and at-risk communities.

Tasting is believing

Jay Walljasper — 2008-04-09T15:31:17-04:00

Esoteric practises, like burying manure inside cows’ horns, has put many people off biodynamic agriculture. Now the sensational flavour—and ecological benefits—of biodynamic produce is winning them over.

Videos: The new activists

2008-04-09T15:31:17-04:00

Activism is no longer framed by boycotts and confrontations. People are finding positive new ways to convey the message of social, economic and political change. Watch videos from new activists like anti-corporate pranksters The Yes Men; comedian Reverend Billy; and Thailand's most prominent AIDS awareness campaigner, Mr. Condom.

The "new" real economy

Jurriaan Kamp — 2008-04-09T15:31:17-04:00

"Since my days as the chief economics editor at a leading daily newspaper in the Netherlands, I’ve always believed recessions are substantially made by people’s fears."

The not-so-secret secret to changing the world

Lisa Witter — 2008-04-09T15:31:17-04:00

Women can lead the way from the survival of the fittest to the survival of the connected.

Watch this space

Bill Hinchberger — 2008-04-09T15:31:17-04:00

The mayor of Sao Paulo is emptying his city of billboards, calling them "visual pollution". Is this the beginning of the end for outdoor advertising?

Women in the lead

2008-04-09T15:31:17-04:00

Two communication experts suggest we focus on the capacity of women to change the world. Ode asked some of society's leading ladies what they think about putting women in front.