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Scanned from the Oct 13, 2008 issue of Newsweek

Photo credit: Areaware

Designer Ross Menuez reinvents a childhood classic with his Kuma Bears, a series of psychedelically patterned teddies so vibrant that the Grateful Dead Bears pale in comparison. Made from 100 percent organic cotton canvas and stuffed with organic cotton filling, the Kuma Bears are hand-silk-screened using eco-friendly (and worry not, parents, child-safe) soy-based inks.

Image credit::Tumbling Green Popcorn, Flickr, a2thegeezus

By George Grattan

The social and economic gap between the world’s richest 1 billion people and its poorest 1 billion has no historical precedent. Not only is this gap wide, it is widening. As I write in Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, the poorest billion are trapped at subsistence level and the richest billion are becoming wealthier with each passing year.

"Public School Meat" by cowboy_montgomery via flickr