If you’re like me, you’re tired of the seemingly endless amount of bad news that our media offers up every day.  Read, watch, or listen to enough of it, and you’re liable to believe our world is an overwhelmingly scary, dangerous, hopeless place indeed.  Of course, if you dig a little deeper than the incessant, mainstream media drone, you’ll find positive sources of news like the “intelligently optimistic” Ode Magazine.

A print and online publication about positive news and “the people and ideas that are changing our world for the better,” Ode was founded in the Netherlands in 1995 and originally published in Dutch, but since 2004 it’s been available in English.  The print version appears ten times a year, and the blog is frequently updated.

More about Ode:

Over the past 12 years, Ode has helped make the ‘alternative’ media space more mainstream. The magazine profiled people like clown-doctor Patch Adams, guru Deepak Chopra and Dr. Andrew Weil long before more conventional publications made them household names.

During this time, Ode also built a community of readers who are passionate about the magazine and the issues for which it stands: positive social, environmental and economic change. Because these readers have a lot to say for themselves - and to each other- Ode created a new website that allows them to communicate, socialize and contribute to Ode. Odemagazine.com’s mix of print and online journalism with user-generated content and social networking makes it unique on the Web.

In print and online, Ode’s aim is to bring a new reality into view, to explore opportunities for positive change in our daily lives and our daily minds.

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