This is a story about coffee—to be precise: about eating coffee. It is also a story about potentially the largest—and surely the only profitable—regeneration of nature project ever undertaken. It is a story that begins in a small country with two million inhabitants on the Baltic Sea between Lithuania and Estonia.

Edward was a successful businessman with companies on both the East and West coasts of the United States. He would meet with his accountants and add columns of numbers immediately in his head before the accountants could do so on their calculators. As he approached 60, however, he began to have memory problems. One day at the gym, he panicked when he forgot the combination to his locker, and his lock had to be cut.

The print edition of KAMP SOLUTIONS magazine presents a major innovation. It provides a solution to some of the biggest environmental challenges people and planet face. The story of the production of this magazine will change the way you think about paper and it will introduce you to inspiring opportunities to regenerate nature and reverse global warming as well as to groundbreaking business opportunities that will revolutionize the packaging industry.

Economist Stephanie Kelton argues for a radical shift in economic thinking to better deal with crucial challenges societies face—from poverty and inequality to creating jobs and reversing global warming.

There are two stories about the origins of modern money. One is the story as most of us know it: Money started as shells to facilitate barter between, say, fishermen and farmers.

The Covid-19 pandemic has taught us a couple of things: We cannot take what we hear or read at face value, and it is up to all of us to join the dots for ourselves.

We already know that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid, is twice as virulent as seasonal flu, from the same SARS family, which puts its mortality rate at around 0.4 percent. For more than 90 percent who get the virus, it will cause mild symptoms. According to health agencies, 30 percent will not even know they have it, and will be entirely symptom-free, or asymptomatic.

The introduction of a universal basic income protects nature, reduces pollution, helps to reverse global warming and leads to more balance and justice in society. From the fifteenth century—at the end of the Middle Ages, when time stood still to a large extent—Europe began an acceleration of economic, social and technological development which led to the industrial revolution and eventually culminated in the world we live in today. That rapid progress didn’t come out of nowhere. Europeans used paper and the technique of printing with moveable type.

Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming. Jurriaan Kamp spoke with the editor of the book, environmentalist, entrepreneur and activist Paul Hawken who is also the author of Blessed Unrest, Natural Capitalism and The Ecology of Commerce.

For three decades, I have been documenting the lives of the Ju/’hoansi people of the north-western Kalahari, and their often-traumatic encounter with modernity. The Ju/’hoansi are perhaps the best known of the handful of societies who still sustained themselves by hunting and gathering well into the 20th century. And to them, very little about the relentlessly expanding global economy makes sense.

Dr. Mark Hyman knows that bad food makes people sick. He has been using food as medicine for 30 years achieving spectacular results like completely reversing type 2 diabetes within a week or two. Then, one day in 2014, he realized that treating patients in his doctor’s office meant he was merely treating symptoms of a much bigger problem. The real treatment, he thought, had to start at the roots of the food chain: on the farm, in the grocery store and in the kitchen at home.

Ancient knowledge can make a major contribution to the fight against the coronavirus. Recently, the New England Journal of Medicine published a study that found that the virus lasted only briefly on copper, compared with days on stainless steel and plastic. The outcome should not have come as a surprise.

Misguided mobs have attacked parliaments before. Such mobs have brought down democracies and introduced dictatorships. When we talk about the Roman civilization today, we mostly remember Caesar and other emperors. These dictators came to power after the world’s first experiment in democracy—the Roman Republic, that protected the common interests of all its male, non-slave citizens—had succumbed to violent masses.

President Trump caused outrage once more with his suggestion that ultraviolet (UV) light could help in the fight against Covid-19 patients. His record of defying science and stepping in the footsteps of the doctors who should lead the fight against the pandemic is not helpful. However, in this case he is right.

The virus-crisis forces a politically polarized world to re-think and re-valuate. Perhaps the crisis is an opportunity to build a bridge between opposing views and between the present and the future. The vision of one of Europe’s leading environmentalists, German politician Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker.

CREATE YOUR OWN REALITY. That mission has supplied a steady stream of self- help guru’s and books from Napoleon Hill who wrote Think and Grow Rich in 1937 to more recent initiatives like the documentaries The Secret and What the Bleep. The experts in these movies eagerly embrace quantum physics to “prove” that we indeed create our own reality.

There is a beautiful practice that everyone needs to embrace in times of crises: Resilience. “The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties”, says one definition. The point is that in an interconnected world, surprises are the new normal. When a virus brings global life to a complete standstill, it becomes hard to maintain an optimistic, solutions-oriented mindset. Nevertheless, we learn to overcome challenges. That is how we grow.