[Dialogue] Ode Magazine: Sharing Approaches that Work

[Carol Crow]

Janice,

We have been subscribers of ODE since it "went American" and I have  
found every issue very uplifting and educational.  People's creativity  
continues to amaze me.  You'll be pleased, I think!!

Carol and Stan
On Dec 6, 2006, at 3:33 PM, Janice Ulangca wrote:

> Dear ICA Colleagues,
>
> We've been aware of the power of "sharing approaches that work" since  
> before the International Exposition of Rural Development international  
> conference in India.  In that vein, Ode magazine sounds exciting, and  
> I pass the information on for your consideration.  Perhaps Europeans  
> and others are already familiar with Ode. They are offering a special  
> 6-month subscription for $10 U.S., to new subscribers in the U.S. and  
> Canada.  I just ordered these for myself and three friends.  If  
> interested you can check it out at the web address at the bottom of  
> this message.
>
> Janice Ulangca
>
> ------------------------
>
> Message from Ode's Cofounder & Chief Editor
>
> Dear Readers:
>
> My name is Jurriaan Kamp and I co-founded and edit Ode -- a very  
> unusual magazine. Since 1995 it has been giving Europeans a rich diet  
> of real-life stories about positive change from all over the world.  
> Since 2003, it has been doing the same for Americans and others around  
> the world with its English-language version.
>
> Well researched, well written, and - yes - inspiring. When I worked as  
> an editor at a major newspaper in the Netherlands, I saw the need for  
> responsible reporting on stories that give us reasons to hope -- but  
> are rarely published...
>
>
> And we all need to tell each other about every breakthrough idea,  
> invention and real-life practice - anywhere and everywhere such  
> real-world research and development is happening.
> This is what Ode is all about… 
>
> We want you to know about stories like these:
>
> ·          A mushroom farm produces 25% more mushrooms a day, since it  
> quit using pesticides. How? By dosing the soil with natural bacteria,  
> fungi and yeast, the farmer increases yield and improves his own  
> health - and the planet’s.
>
> And this is not in some boutique farm in California, or a converted  
> barn in Vermont. This is in rural Thailand, where villagers grow  
> cucumbers, tomatoes, corn, rice, mangoes fish, and more - using  
> micro-organisms instead of chemicals to feed their soil and keep pests  
> at bay. At half the price of the chemicals.
>
> ·          A Canadian professor of electrical engineering went to  
> climb Mt. Everest, and was inspired to invent lights for the Nepalese  
> school-kids he saw trying to read in dark classrooms. He convinced a  
> Japanese firm to make light-bulbs out of tiny light emitting diodes  
> that use 1 watt of electricity apiece. Now whole villages power all  
> their light bulbs with small windmills, solar panels and - in a pinch  
> -- pedal generators. AND the city of New York has just installed the  
> same LED bulbs in all its traffic lights, saving enough electricity a  
> year to prevent another blackout!
>
> “Meanwhile, our capital city of Washington DC is full of 25 watt bulbs  
> in 100 watt sockets - you see ‘em interviewed on TV every night!”  
> --Jim Hightower, former Texas Agriculture Commissioner.
>
> ·         And in the frigid but very modern city of Reykjavik,  
> Iceland, buses, offices and factories are running on hydrogen-powered  
> fuel cells. Norway and Britain are installing turbines in the ocean,  
> generating electricity out of the ebb and flow of the tides. While  
> Dick Cheney and his friends in the American fossil fuel industry scoff  
> at the idea that renewable nature can power a modern economy, Europe  
> is leaping ahead in sustainable energy production.
>
> Ode is about empowering and inspiring the reader to make a difference.  
> With factual reports like those I’ve summarized above. And IDEAS…
>
> ...(Including) IDEAS about the fundamentals of life – about our  
> collective search for meaning beyond the frenzied chaos of everyday  
> living. Ode explores the human spirit, and what has become almost an  
> underworld – the world of spirituality. People the world over have  
> discovered the healing powers of the mind, of light, of confronting  
> what we glibly call “negative emotions”, of art, and of exploring the  
> spiritual dimension --whether through established religions or through  
> pathways recently revealed.
>
> Ode brings you the cutting edge of positive changes from all over the  
> planet...
>
> Our newer American edition is for American readers – still partly  
> written and edited in Europe, so you see how the world looks from  
> across the Atlantic.
>
> In fact, Ode is a global magazine. We are about bridging the  
> ever-widening gap between the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
>
> … we present cutting edge reports and ideas, many of them by  
> exceptional writers like Brazilian author Paulo Coelho, American  
> linguist and political dissident Noam Chomsky, and our own often  
> regarded Tjin Touber.
> http://www.odemagazine.net/landing.html?source=sojo-nwsltr
>  
> **************************
> Janice Ulangca
> 3413 Stratford Drive
> Vestal, NY  13850
> 607-797-4595
> aulangca at stny.rr.com
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