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...
Only a woman would be able to photograph women living in the Muslim world and even some women behind a veil. What sense of truth is present? What perspective is revealed in the eyes of the photographer?
Portraits and Stories of Women in the Middle East exhibit is open to the public in Geneva at the Museum of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (ICRC) from September 23rd to January 24, 2010. Read more...
The Pachamama Alliance will lead an Awakening the Dreamer session at the The European Summit for Global Transformation to be held at the World Trade Centre in Rotterdam on the 20, 21 and 22 of november 2009.
The Pachamama Alliance's mission is twofold: To preserve the earth's tropical rainforests by empowering the indigenous people who are its natural custodians, and to contribute to the creation of a new global vision of equity and sustainability for all. Read more...
Executive coach Lynn Harris got tired of reading about the dearth of women in senior leadership positions.
Why, she asked herself, were women not making it to the upper echelons in the corporate world? And perhaps more important, WHAT could be done about it?
Tongue in cheek, Harris says there's a lot of contradictory advice floating around about what women need to do to get to the top:
"People say women should be more assertive, but not so assertive that they are disliked. Be collaborative, but not so friendly that they lack credibility. Be more competent than their male colleagues, but in a way that doesn't threaten the men. Be a role model for other women, but behave more like the men to succeed," she points out. Read more...
But my planet is making me.
Tuesday was the Autumnal Equinox, one of two days out of the year when day and night are of equal length. For a moment, the earth's axis will not be tilted toward or away from the sun but rather level with it.
Our daylight will grow shorter and our nights longer. Read more...
Hi there. I am the founder of a new website that is all about spreading and sharing gratitude and appreciation online. The website is called www.GratitudeLog.com and we already have thousands of active members that share their gratitude and appreciation every day.
GratitudeLog is a website where people come together to celebrate happy moments, send simple gifts of appreciation and brighten up each other’s day. It’s based on the simple practice of expressing gratitude daily for wonderful moments in your life. Read more...
SolarCity and Rabobank announced today that they will partner together to build the world's first electric car charging corridor, which will allow electric vehicles to travel between San Francisco and Los Angeles, according to a press release.
The corridor will be the first of its kind, enabling people with electric vehicles to travel a substantial distance with four fast, reliable, solar power-enhanced charging stations along the way in Salinas, Atascadero, Santa Maria and Goleta. The corridor, built in cooperation with Tesla Motors, an electric vehicle manufacturer in the Bay Area, plans to cut charging time to one third the time of other charging stations. Read more...
Throughout Latin America, communities, activists and social movements are fighting dams, pollution, and water privatization -- and they're winning! A new report "Changing the Flow: Water Struggles in Latin America" collects a dozen interviews with water activists from across Latin America, talking about why they needed to take action to protect water, and how they won.
The 56 page report, which can be viewed here as a PDF in English and Spanish, was produced by Food and Water Watch, Red Vida, Transnational Institute,The RPR Network and Other Worlds. Read more...
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