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Until recently, there wasn't one person you could go to and ask about organic chefs, personal healers, celebrity eco-stylists, all-natural doulas, and psychics. Now, at least in Los Angeles, there is. The go-to guy among his friends and acquaintances for recommending innovative, quality services for them to try, Brian Mahan has spent years searching for such resources around the world. A few years ago it dawned on him that he could take this special expertise and turn it into a viable business as the Enlightened Concierge.

When Calfee, a bike builder from Santa Cruz, California, started making bamboo bicycles about ten years ago, they were a novelty for his friends and relatives. It turns out that bamboo is not only eco-friendly, but also super-strong, non-corrosive, and vibration absorbing. In other words, the perfect material for a bike frame. Now his bamboo bikes are in high demand, and Calfee is finding out how his eco-friendly design could impact life in rural Africa

Paleoclimatologist Dr. Allegra LeGrande studies ancient climate patterns, applies them to our present, to help predict what our future might be. One of the few female scientists in her field, she hails from a fourth-generation Texas oil family, and works through a collaboration of Columbia University and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

Buy the latest, discard the oldest: We all know this pattern of behavior isn't working so well, but no one has broken down the why's an how's as succinctly, smartly, gently and as well as Annie Leonard (and guess what—fixing this cycle doesn't have to mean the end of prosperity, either).