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Gandhi said, "Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it," and Marc Gold took this lesson to heart in 1989 when he started the 100 Friends project. "The idea is very simple," he says. "Every year many people contribute to the project and I take the money to Third World Countries and look for the neediest people I can find. I then put the money to work in the most compassionate, appropriate, culturally compatible, constructive and practical manner possible. You put the donation into my hands and I put the funds directly into the hands of the needy individual or family, or a small trusted grassroots organization helping them."   Read more...

Dogs are often conversation starters. But what if you could meet other dog lovers online instead of on walks through the park? Boston-based SNIF Tags is doing just that: allowing pet owners to forge new connections with fellow dog-walkers online.

The SNIF Tag is a small RFID device that attaches to a dog's collar to record his or her daily movements and social encounters. the tag emits a signal that can be picked up by other SNIF Tags in the area. The dog's owner can then log on and view the profiles of the owners of the dogs their pet has come into contact with.   Read more...

The International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) has announced the launch of its new "growing organic" page. The page focuses on information that is practical in the organic sector. They provide information for everyone from grassroots organizers to advocacy groups to encourage the growth of their movement. The page has tools and information from all corners of the organic world and wants to be a community resource designed to represent and serve global organic movements.   Read more...

If you're restless and don't know what to do with yourself, stay where you are. Just be still, be quiet. Let the eagerness to do something cool down. Let the pull of the outside world release its grip on you. Just as the sediment in a bottle settles to the bottom, so will your emotions if you let them be still.   Read more...

The Hippy Gourmet says it is "a weekly, 30-minute public television series that airs nationally on PBS, Dish network channel 9415 (FSTV), syndicated television and globally through YouTube. The show is based in the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco, but travels the world highlighting organic, sustainable agriculture, alternative energy, and people making a difference for a better world.   Read more...

Marion Nestle traces the obesity epidemic to its societal causes: the "gorge-yourself environment," farm subsidies, and the shareholder value movement.   Read more...

In 1996, after some fifty-three years of consciously and subconsciously seeking the purpose of life and answers to connected questions, I wrote the first part of the book "The Milk Is White", a philosophical treatise, and said to myself, ‘Why am I writing this book when all that is needed by seekers of the Truth is already available from many sources? Why do I embark on this with no experience in such an endeavour and with the knowledge that 'little me' will be attempting to convey some rather awesome spiritual truths?’

I had no idea how this would turn out and was responding to an inner prompting, a recent meditation period during which a computer keyboard floated down accompanied by the message, "The answer lies in the keyboard!" and advice to us in the Edgar Cayce Readings that we should start where we are, with what we have in hand, and leave the result to God - the Creative Force.   Read more...

The boy and girl stand close together, sweaty palms touching, eyes averted and waiting for their cue, and then the music starts. Is it another episode of the OC? No, it’s ballroom dancing. A new phenomenon is touching the nation’s youth, and I could not be more thrilled. Through ballroom dancing, young people are touching each other, in a positive way. Self-expression and self-esteem are being reinforced in a new way through one of the oldest forms of movement - dance. The fact that someone is attempting to make ladies and gentlemen out of kids on the brink of awkward adolescence, is nothing short of a miracle. Letting young people know that some adults view them in a positive light, genius!   Read more...

A soon-to-be-published study by The Archives of Internal Medicine shows that some forms of cancer may under some circumstances go away without treatment. Doctors say if their findings turn out to be credible, it could change the way we approach the disease. Women diagnosed with breast cancer, for example, might be advised to opt for “watchful waiting,” whereby a tumor is monitored, rather than immediately removed, to see if it might shrink without treatment. The New York Times reported on this story and said, "At the moment, the finding has no practical applications because no one knows whether a detected cancer will disappear or continue to spread and kill."

Doctors say that if the theory turns out to be credible, this could turn into a huge point of interest within the medical community. Women diagnosed with breast cancer could be allowed to opt for a watchful waiting process, monitoring a tumor within the breast to see if it grows before deciding how to treat it.   Read more...

The Green MicroGym in Portland, Ore. is stocked with more than just hand weights and power bars. The workout rooms are filled with generators, which are linked to various machines and equipment like stationary bikes and treadmills. When gym members come to work out, they are not only keeping their bodies in shape, they are keeping the gym running.

The gym currently relies on the solar panels to cover about 40 percent of the operational energy. They are attempting to increase that number. They have a calculated need of 240 hours a day on the equipment to reach the goal of the gym being 100 percent self sustainable.   Read more...