From Oslo, where most Norwegians live, the nearest hydrogen filling station is about two hours away, first along a freeway, then down a smaller, winding highway and finally through the small city of... Read more >>

In 1995, Tariq Khamisa was delivering pizzas to help pay his expenses at the University of San Diego in California when he was shot and killed by Tony Hicks, a fourteen-year-old gang... Read more >>

Susan Davis, president of Capital Missions, has been working in the trenches of our dysfunctional capital markets for decades. She helped found the community bank ShoreBank; the Committee of 200, a... Read more >>

There’s a framed photo hanging in Michelle Chan’s living room that makes her feel uneasy when she stops to look at it. It shows an old Chinese couple standing in an alley. The man’s... Read more >>

In preparation for my meeting with graphologist Maresi de Monchy, I was told to supply a handwritten text on a sheet of unlined paper. The content was irrelevant, the written words enough to analyze... Read more >>

As Director of Research with the Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program at the Mayo Clinic, physician Amit Sood combines alternative and Western medicine to treat a range of problems, from... Read more >>

In the rural town of Awassa, Ethiopia, donkey carts hauling vegetables or farming equipment over the dusty, dirt roads are a common sight. Less common are books. Many children have never seen one; few... Read more >>

Somewhere there is a sock heaven. There must be, for where only one sock can be found the other must exist, somewhere. Did you fall behind the laundry hamper or the dark abyss behind the dresser... Read more >>

  Several years ago, when the drips through our ceiling could no longer be ignored, we decided to install solar panels along with a new roof on our Berkeley, California, home. Then when we... Read more >>

Like many entrepreneurs, David Griswold started his business with a big vision and a small line of credit. He wanted to help coffee growers learn sustainable farming and connect to buyers who’d... Read more >>