Tomorrow’s leaders say we’ll make it – but too bad about the tigers. James Goodman reports on an eye-opening survey. Tigers will be extinct in the wild within 25 years, oil will have run out, and the gap between rich and poor people’s incomes across the globe will be even wider than it is today. [...]
Small-town India’s new middle class is negotiating globalisation and modernity in much more meaningful ways than the metropolitan middle class, says Sanjay Srivastava’s new book, titled Passionate Modernity: Sexuality, Class and Consumption in India. The book examines the middle class in globalising India through the lens of the ‘friendship magazines’ of the Hindi heartland and [...]
The PlayPumps Water System performs modern-day alchemy, converting the energy of children cavorting on a simple playground merry-go-round into clean water. As children spin, the system pumps water from an underground well into a 25-foot-high storage tank. Instead of the time-consuming task of hauling water, villagers need only turn a tap. Read more in Good [...]
GetActive, NetSquared and Squidoo partner up to bring you this list of the 59 smartest nonprofit organizations online today. These charities were chosen for their excellence in online storytelling and collaboration with their donors. We didn’t play favorites to one cause over another, nor did we look at their fundraising goals or number of members. [...]
I’m in the mood for magazines today! Take a look at Good Magazine‘s “Smartest, Prettiest, Coolest, Funniest, Most Influential, Most Necessary, Most Important, Most Essential, etc.” periodicals ever. The essential strength of a magazine is its ability to amplify. An idea, or an image, or a story, set within the pages of a magazine and [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2007