Peter Liu’s green education began at an oil company. He emigrated to the U.S. with his family from Taiwan when he was twelve, settling in South Los Angeles. His father opened an... Read more >>

James Kass is a force of nature. The hip, bold visionary has created a powerful space within our democracy from which young people can fly bravely out into the world with new found voices... 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 >>

Bob and Kelly King started Pacific Biodiesel in Hawaii ten years ago, before anyone knew what biofuels were or why they were important. In 1995, while he was working at the Central Maui... 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 >>

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 >>

Like a lot of us, I keep asking myself, how did we get into this mess? Since humans have innate needs and capacities for cooperation, empathy, and fairness, which science now confirms, why... 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 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 >>