As the results of the old limited approach to business, leadership and finance become glaringly obvious, a new level of thinking, leading and conducting business is being summoned. And as we move forward in developing our new, sustainable approach to business, it is becoming clear to many that the sustainability of a company as a whole goes hand in hand with individual sustainability.
The Conscious Business Institute (CBI) is one of the pioneering businesses that has emerged out of this call to move into a new way of being and thinking around business, finance and our selves. Recognizing the current dissatisfaction amongst much of our labor force and the longing for inspiring, engaging work, CBI is helping businesses and leaders embrace conscious business practices that will ignite greater power, commitment and long-term sustainability inside and out and transform our business climate worldwide. Read more...
Over 20 percent of methane gas, a greenhouse gas, is emitted by cows. There are about a billion cows in the world, and their methane emissions total more than the methane gas produced by all the cars, planes, ships and trucks in the world combined, according to Springwise.
UK company Mootral thinks they have found a solution to reduce methane gas emissions by cows by a minimum of 25 percent with a natural garlic-based extract that would be added to their food. Mootral is working with Welsh Neem Biotech to produce the additive, with plans to have a sample ready for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen this December. Read more...
Here's the latest innovation to support the health and beauty of our skin, our bodies, and our planet! A new online Healthy Skin Clinic brings you the Custom Blends system, which lets you add powerfully nourishing botanical "boosters" to your choice of "Pure & Simple" base products. Specialties include sensitive skin, problem skin, and healthful "graceful aging."
Grateful Body is known for creating remarkably nurturing, joy-inspiring scent blends from impeccably pure essential oils, and when customizing you have your choice of many exquisitely nurturing scent boosters. It's simple and educational! Read more...
Project Masiluleke is an effort designed by PopTech, a global network whose goal is to "accelerate the positive impact of world changing people, projects and ideas" to address HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis in South Africa through the power of mobile technology. Read more...
New York City has unveiled a new ad campaign encouraging people to put down sodas, sugary juices and sports drinks, store-made coffee drinks, and other beverages laden with sugar and high fructose corn syrup in an effort to educate New Yorkers on calorie consumption.
The campaign, which features a graphic image of human fat being poured from a plastic soda bottle, follows a previous a NYC campaign which aimed to reduce obesity in the city by requiring restaurants by law to post the calorie counts of it's food. Posters displayed in New York subway cars informed New Yorkers that "2,000 calories a day is all most adults should eat." Read more...
Both are so inspirational, it's tough to decide which is my favourite resource for just about everything. Read more...
Not sure what it’s doing other than knocking the small white blossoms off the tree. Blossoms that will turn to small smooth round balls of sweet fruit.
Flapping its wings of black and orange. Collapsing them from view. The butterfly waits motionless. I've never seen a butterfly visit this tree. Maybe one comes everyday. But I am too busy reading emails and writing to see the natural world unfold before me. Read more...
The Global Corner International Learning Center has posters of works from Picasso and several paella pans imported from Spain among the many items left over from their Passport to Spain Program. Twenty-nine schools participated in virtual trips to Spain with The Global Corner. Thousands of Escambia County elementary students learned about Spanish geography, language, dance, art, literature, and food during the 2008-09 school year. Using exciting, hands-on activities, The Global Corner helped the students learn more about the Spanish Explorers who founded Pensacola and about Spain today. Read more...
What is perspective? It is more than just how we view everything. Perspective is how we choose to view everything.
Do we really have a choice about our perspective? Read more...
The Opportunity Collaboration is a four-day, purpose-driven networking and problem solving summit commencing on World Poverty Day.
In a focused and intensive series of working business meetings, social entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, social financiers, grant-makers and agents of change will explore unprecedented levels of collaboration, identify opportunities for leveraging resources across organizations and accelerate proven models for reducing poverty. Read more...
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