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Avatar and its holistic promise

Jurriaan Kamp discusses the important message of holism in James Cameron's latest movie, Avatar.

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IPCC reports full of errors? Forget science, let's get some fresh air

Climate scientists who worked on the UN panel on global warming have hit out at “sloppy” colleagues from other disciplines who introduced a mistake about melting glaciers into the landmark 2007 report. The Guardian reports that the experts, who worked on the section of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report that considered the physical science of global warming, say the error by “social and biological scientists” has unfairly maligned their work. Some said that Rajendra Pachauri, the panel’s chair, should resign, though others supported him.

Global warming skeptics have enthusiastically welcomed the climate science uproar as proof of their vision that there is no consensus about climate change.

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Jurriaan Kamp on 2/ 8/2010 4:18 pm Comments 0


People, Passion, Possibilities

Tips for making peace with Valentine’s Day

V-Day isn’t always a delight for everyone. Not everyone has drunk the koolaid of our couple society. More to the point, a lot of us are d-o-n-e with coupledom. What to do?

Tip #1: Acknowledge how you feel about Valentine’s Day even if it’s only in your bathroom mirror. Don’t dwell on it, but tell yourself the truth about it. There are as many responses to this holiday as there are souls. Your feelings are yours, and they’re legitimate.

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PeaceCorso on 2/ 8/2010 7:50 pm Comments 0

How leadership and spirituality must connect in the new world

Therefore, if our society stinks, chances are today’s leaders have gaps in integrity and honesty.

Most people cannot imagine Spirituality and Leadership mentioned in the same breath. To many this is combining two entirely unrelated concepts. Yet, the level of our intelligence and our ability to think and analyze and the fact that the human mind’s base is compassion and goodness, this combination of unlikely bedfellows may create the new story we need for the future.

Father Thomas Berry, the late eminent ecologist said in his book Evening Thoughts; “The old story has ended and we are not quite sure what this new story is all about”.

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Lalith Gunaratne on 2/ 5/2010 10:54 am Comments 1

Send an Olympic Winter Games peace message to the world

I read about this on Amazing Women Rock.

Here’s a small-is-beautiful, grassroots community peace initiative request from De Whalen, of the Richmond Women’s Resource Center, in British Columbia, Canada.

To be a part of this cool 2010 Peace Project coinciding with the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, send your peace message today. I’ve already sent mine!

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PeaceCorso on 2/ 5/2010 10:51 am Comments 2

The benefits of the Japanese game of Go

The Japanese are famous for their board games. And an adult student of mine is an avid Go player. He joins games several times a week, and has become so skilled at it that he has become an instructor.

I hunger to learn all I can about different cultures, particularly the one I am in. So, when he invited me to one of his Go classes, of course I went.

That particular group consisted of older folks, who had the time to take their hobby seriously. A few members would come in, concentrate intensely as they played a game or two, and leave. Then others would arrive. This went on all day. This relaxed, friendly atmosphere was as important, or more so, than the games themselves.

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Anne Thomas on 2/ 3/2010 11:33 am Comments 0

Thirty ways to add more life to your years

Deep down we all wish to live a rich and enlightened life and that is why we make those resolutions every year, for greater biological efficiency, less disease, increased finances, successful career, and an increasingly better quality of life. It is still not too late. Only a month has passed and there are eleven glorious months left to turn a new leaf, open a new chapter or just quietly revel in the sudden newness of your life.

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Nazia Mallick on 2/ 1/2010 11:07 am Comments 3


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Allan Schwarz: Nature conservationist

Summer Rayne Oakes, an eco fashion model, recommends Allan Schwarz as an intelligent optimist working to restore and conserve the forests of Africa and the dignity of the people who live there.

Dr. Denis Mukwege provides hope to women in Congo

Playwright and female activist Eve Ensler nominates Dr. Denis Mukwege for his compassion and courage to protect and heal women in his native home in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Dr. Holly Latty-Mann

Doc Holly helps thousands and my story is but one. This unforgiving, rugged, wretched road I chose for myself would have become my lifelong journey. If I hadn’t met Holly. I almost missed her.

I wrote my first business plan at 12 and opened my first business at 23. I went to college to get a degree, but ended up getting pregnant instead. Luckily, in the early 80’s, when I was a student, no computers were tracking prerequisites and I slipped into a 400 level marketing course in my third semester. I was done. I "got" it. I knew what I was going to be.

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