Engineering a Better World
By Terri Alderfer
Five low-tech innovations making high-impact changes across the globe ...read more
Issue 60 | November/December 2007
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This issue features celebrating the borealis, headless snakes, studying summer sea ice in Svalbard, sand dogsledding, chillin' with Wright and the fall of Franklin's men, plus much more...read more
Adventures in Volunteering
By Terri Alderfer
Integrating travel and volunteerism is a surefire way to leave footprints wherever your next adventure might take you. A guide to short and long-term overseas opportunities.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
American Field Service
Founded in 1914 to transport wounded French soldiers during the First World War, the American Field Service has emerged into an international volunteer organization, providing intercultural learning [...]...read more
Travellers For Change
By Outpost
Building a Place to Learn
Allan Wigood, 76, Retired - Kitchener, ON
The proud owner of a new motor home, Allan Wigood was all set for retirement in 1989 when he took a trip to Central America as a volunteer with the NGO World Accord. “After witnessing the living conditions in Honduras and Guatemala,” has says, “I [...]...read more
Traveller Tips
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Outpost has been writing about adventure travel for over 11 years and whenever we needed an inside scoop or some really obscure travelling advice we’ve always been able to pick up the phone and give one of our experts a call. But what about all of the travellers who do not have access to such [...]...read more
Posh Spice
By Don Douloff
Ginger is one of the world’s great seasonings boasting a flavour all its own, peppery and subtly sweet, and an equally...read more
Soy Delicious
By Don Douloff
Soy sauce wears many hats. It boosts the flavour of a bowl of steamed rice. It can jazz up soups and stir fries, or lend its salty, meaty tang to delicate sushi and sashimi...read more
Some Like it Hot
By Don Douloff
Adored by seekers of fire and spice, and loathed (and even feared) by everyone else, the chile pepper arouses intense love-it-or-hate-it passions...read more
Kernel of Truth
By Don Douloff
One of the most important cereal crops in the world, corn--or maize, as it’s also called--originated in Central and South America, likely the hybrid of a wild ancestor and a related plant called teosinte...read more
Road Safety
By Deborah Sanborn
Before you get on the road again—whether at home or abroad—observe a few precautions and live to tell about it...read more
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