http://www.sgiquarterly.org/feature2013apr-12.html qmain http://www.sgiquarterly.org/feature2013apr-13.html Hitomi reading her essay at a speech contest in Omuta, Fukuoka, July 2004

Hitomi Saruwatari was born in Saitama, Japan, on January 19, 1991.

Music therapy has an ancient tradition, going back to Hippocrates, who, it is said, pla

At the age of nine, I was struck by the abundance and variety of life: gathering red and gold autumn leaves, it occurred to me that not one lea

Health is a universal desire of human beings. No matter how wealthy or powerful one is, health, after all, is the most precious thing.

Chung Cheng Lee is licensed in Oriental Medicine.

Approximately 10 million people in the UK have some sort of hearing loss, while 70,000, according to the Lancet magazine, are profoundly deaf.

Hazel Henderson is the founder of Ethical Markets Media, LLC, and the creator and co-executive producer of its TV series.

From 2003 to 2005, I documented people's experiences of living with and alongside HIV/AIDS in Okhahlamba, a rural sub-district within KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa--a country that has the invidious distinction of having

Medicine has always stood in the center of all our endeavors and interests and is driven by the wish to live as long and healthily as possible.

I am a founder member of the Indian Society for Sleep Research and have been working in different capacities at the society since 1992.

The things we throw in the garbage are by nature of little worth; they're the used,

Dan McKinney is a cinematographer and producer teaching at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Polly Higgins is the author of Eradicating Ecocide and The Earth is our Business. Having worked as a barrister in the UK for many years, she has devoted herself to finding ways to strengthen legal

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Nike's Reuse-A-Shoe program recovers old athletic shoes (of any brand) and recycles them into materials for different kinds of

In the 1930s, plastics were mostly unknown. Today, they are in almost every product we lay our hands on.

Janine Benyus, an American biologist and innovation consultant, is cofounder of Biomimicry 3.8, a bio-inspired innovation consultancy

Since she was barely five years old, Archana has been working at th

Waste is commonly regarded simply as a useless byproduct.

Improved welfare and economic growth is generally accompanied by more waste.

Elizabeth Royte is an American science and nature writer and author of the book Garbage Land: On The Secret Trail Of Trash (Little, Brown, 2005), named

In societies where elders are revered, they are seen as a repos

David Tay Poey Cher's book Coming of Age: Forgotten Faces of a Greying Asia turns our eyes to those we often overlook: older people. Through his dialogues with various elders along his travels, Mr.

My passion for gerontology is deeply influenced by my belief in the rights of i

http://www.sgiquarterly.org/feature2012oct-2.html qmain http://www.sgiquarterly.org/feature2012oct-4.html In the 21st century, one of the biggest social transformations is population aging, the result of the interplay between longer lives and fertility decline. Population aging is part of a long-term development called demographic transition, which leads from a pattern of high mortality and hig

As the world reaches an estimated population of 7 billion, there is growing concer

Protection of the rights of older persons will

Adetowun Ogunsheye, age 85, was the first female professor in Nigeria. She recently retired as Professor of Library Studies from the University of Ibadan.

SGI Quarterly: What impact will an aging population have?

John Beard:

It is easy to approach aging in a negative light.

Chouchou Namegabe Dubuisson is a radio journalist from the city of Bukavu in Kivu, the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

In the late 1950s, James Lawson moved to the southern US state of Tennessee and, as southern secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, began training students in Nashville in nonviolent direct action.

This May marked three years since the end of the bitter 26-year civil war between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

Living for Others
Mora Gibbings, Cambodia

During the Khmer Rouge period in

For 20 years, I worked in the TV industry as a writer/director, latterly producing documentaries about movies and music

Courage is first among virtues in heroic epic and in cultures of honor. Men cared to be known for their courage.

Plato's early dialogue on courage, Laches, points up the difficulty in pinning down what we mean by courage.

In 1992, the city of Rio de Janeiro hosted the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), des

In the 1930s, the Soka Gakkai's founder Tsunesaburo Makiguchi based his radical tea

Only five years ago, the leaders of Australia's national youth organizations sat in a room in Melbourne talking about how we were going to solve the climate crisis

Kartikeya Sarabhai is the founder and director of the Centre for Environment Education (CEE) in Ahmedabad, India. CEE has 40 offices across India, and also works in Australia, Germany and Sri Lanka.

For years the business world has grasped completely the wrong end of the sustainability stick.

"Hope is a verb with its sleeves rolled up," says US environmental writer and educator David Orr in the recently published collection of his semi

Pam Puntenney is an environmental educator, consultant and author, founder and executive director of the Environmental & Human Systems Management consulting firm.

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