A Zen Buddhist opened up a hot-dog stand and his first customer paid with a £20 note. After waiting, the customer demanded, “Where’s my change?” “Sir,” replied the Buddhist, “change must come from within.” Why do I find it funny? It’s... 

Are Canadian women hot? Apparently, the answer is: not very. In May of 2007 Eddie Fisher wrote about sexual misconceptions in his article titled Men who don’t put out in Chatelaine magazine. This August we heard the findings of an online survey by Chatelaine magazine. Around... 

One of my favorite places for finding inspiring vegetarian dishes is Abbey’s. I’m an email subscriber so I get these delicious recipes by email and I’d like to encourage you to become a subscriber too. The following is a sampling from her site and will be on the... 

When I read this post I decided to do one of my own rather than leaving a lengthy comment. Actually I don’t want to touch on the state of the world, industrial societies and the impending environmental crises at all. This is because I’ve been dealing with my own dilemma. I’ve... 

State of the World 2008: The Environment is Driving Our Global Economy “Pioneering entrepreneurs, nongovernmental organizations, and governments around the globe are now inventing the Earth’s first sustainable global economy, according to State of the World 2008: Innovations... 

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. These seven simple words of dietary advice are at the heart of journalist Michael Pollan’s new book, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. Having covered the ecological repercussions of our food choices in his bestselling... 

I was moved by Jon Piasecki’s The Nature of Walls: Why we build them, how they fail us in the January/February edition of Orion. Piasecki is a landscape architect and stonemason for his company, Golden Bough, in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts. … A wall designed to keep...