Tweet Photo Credits: Plum Village http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/zen-thich-naht-hanh-buddhidm-busi… Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh explains why mindfulness and a spiritual revolution rather than economics is needed to protect nature and limit climate change. He sees the lack of meaning and connection in peoples’ lives as being the cause of our addiction to consumerism and that it is...
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Tweet Something powerful, something new under the sun happened in Cincinnati this weekend. A three day summit on changing Cincinnati in fundamental ways, an effort to rethink our city with an eye toward creating a just, community-oriented, sustainable city. This conference was the brain child of Doctor Victor Garcia, a physician whose experience with...
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Tweet Photo Credits: Brewster Rhoads http://www.world5.org/content/summit-corechange Something powerful, something new under the sun happened in Cincinnati this weekend. A three day summit on changing Cincinnati in fundamental ways, an effort to rethink our city with an eye toward creating a just, community-oriented, sustainable city. This is sleepy old Cincinnati! Read the full post
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What do Conan O’Brien, Cory Booker, Sesame Street’s Grover, Suze Orman, Ted Leo, Neil Patrick Harris and NASA have in common? They’re all famous (although I have no idea who Ted Leo is). And Shorty Award winners. I Could Win One. Hollywood has the Oscars. Broadway has the Tonys. Now Twitter has the… Shorty...
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Milky Way and Cottonwood Tree in South Dakota via dakotalapse.com See the Milky Way, Aurora and other Phenomena in a way you wouldn’t normally see them. Amazing work by Randy Halverson. Check out the DakotaLapse facebook page and dakotalapse.com for more. Tagged: blog, documentary, inspiring, random, time-lapse, video Read the full post
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From the BBC News article, Accumulating ‘microplastic’ threat to shores, by Mark Kinver. Microscopic plastic debris from washing clothes is accumulating in the marine environment and could be entering the food chain, a study has warned. Researchers traced the “microplastic” back to synthetic clothes, which released up to 1,900 tiny fibres per garment every...
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Love is the Color of a Rainbow, written by Kathy Parra, is a sweet story about Willow, a little girl who has been blind since birth. Hearing the pit-pats of the first summer rain, she quickly encourages her Mama to go outside where Willow experiences each color of the rainbow through the sounds, smells...
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Tweet http://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-the-AGs-Must-Not-Settl-by-Ellen-Brown-12020… A foreclosure settlement between five major banks guilty of “robo-signing” and the attorneys general of the 50 states is pending for Monday, February 6 th; but it is still not clear if all the AGs will sign. California was to get over half of the $25 billion in settlement money, and California...
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Tweet There is a famous biblical parable where Jesus speaks of his new way of thinking as something that cannot be contained in the existing Jewish culture. The idea is that if you put new wine into a used skin, the skin will burst as the new wine ferments, having already been stretched once...
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I think about food. All day long. I eat something every 2-3 hours to keep my energy going. That’s why I’m excited that the Good Food Festival is coming to Chicago March 15-17! PS. And my company, myEARTH360.com, is a proud sponsor. When I eat food, I want it to be good. Oh, I...
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