January 2007 | The Global Intelligencer

The greening of corporate America

by Cate Montana

Savvy PR or Earth’s salvation?

Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environmental and social degradation.

Paul Hawken, environmentalist and author

Back in 1989, Fred Krupp, President of Environmental Defense, was having lunch with his three young sons at McDonalds. At the end of the meal he looked at the mound of waste on the table – Styrofoam burger packages, cups, paper, plastic straws – all about to get dumped in the waste bin, and he thought, “There has to be a better way.”

Environmental Defense, one of the nation’s leading environmental nonprofit organizations, approached McDonalds about working together to reduce its packaging and therefore the amount of waste generated by its restaurants. Eliminating the Styrofoam box was one of over 40 different things McDonalds eventually agreed to do.

The Secret Spiritual World of Children

by Etan Boritzer

Most of us understand that we cannot physically see beyond the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum, for instance, to the edge of the infrared or the ultra violet. Accepting this, it might not be too much of a leap to realize that we may also be missing something – like being able to see or hear other beings that might actually be around us.

This is the basic premise that – if you accept it - will enable you to give Dr. Tobin Hart’s remarkable book, The Secret Spiritual World of Children, a credible read.

A Psychologist and Associate Professor of psychology at the State University of West Georgia, in Carrolton, GA, Hart started on the trail of collecting startling otherworldly anecdotes from children ten years ago when his then seven year-old daughter Haley, in a matter-of-fact bedtime conversation, revealed to him how she saw her “angel” and described their interactions. During his research he also collected accounts from adults who, for the first time, revealed their own similar but hidden childhood experiences.