Valérie Grandury's breast cancer diagnosis was the impetus for reinventing her life. Driven against the odds by a will to live, she created a battle-plan against her disease through a total detoxification of her environment. Valérie quit her job in the film business, moved out of the polluted Hollywood hills and into the serenity of Topanga, California.
She dedicated her time to studying the healing power of plants, started meditation and yoga, adopted a raw food diet and became a health and wellness coach in order to guide other cancer patients through their healing journey. Read more...
The Institute for Individual and World Peace (IIWP) is a peace organization whose mission is to identify and present the processes that promote peace. The principles serving as the cornerstones of IIWP are simple yet profound: Read more...
Hello, I have conceived of a very unique human powered vehicle that is in the final design process, and I am soon to be starting the building of the first prototype. You can find a good description of this invention on my blog.
Without any formal design or engineering training, I have for most of my adult life been a carpenter, woodworker, and musician. Read more...
2012 marks the end of the world - at least that's what the ancient Mayans believed. With over 173 million hits on Google for 2012, mounting interest in this prophecy has become a cultural phenomenon. In his new novel, The Twelve, William Gladstone, an expert on the implications and impact of 2012 and ancient religions, draws on his own life experiences to create the dramatic story of Max Doff -- and his whirlwind journey from birth to December 21, 2012. Read more...
I've said it before and I'll say it again (and again and again, likely 'til the day I die): I'm surrounded by amazing women who are doing incredible work to make positive change in the world.
They come from all races, religions and nationalities.
In the last few weeks three amazing young women in particular have come onto the amazingwomenrock.com radar screen: Masarat Daud, Natalie Carney (see photo), and Ambreen Rahman. Read more...
This is Rosmery. She is one of Reading Village's teen reading promoters who receives funding for school in return for her literacy work with children in her community. She's eighteen years old but just started high school this year. Her father, who only completed the first grade, doesn't much value education. So Rosmery had to drop out for a while to help her family. Going back to school was a personal dream and struggle for her. And then her mother died a few months ago and she nearly had to give up that dream. But she has stood strong against her father to continue her studies and remain in our program. Read more...
Hoping to raise awareness of the importance of marriage equality, Ben & Jerry's ice cream has partnered with Freedom to Marry, a leader in the movement to gain nationwide marriage equality, to celebrate gay and lesbian couple's freedom to marry in the state of Vermont, as well as all other states practicing marriage equality. For the month of September the popular Chubby Hubby flavor of ice cream will be renamed Hubby Hubby, and the ice cream makers will be publicly supporting the first gay and lesbian marriages to take place in Vermont. Read more...
Hands build. Hands heal. Simply stated, an environmental hand print is the good one does for the world. This contrasts with the well-known environmental footprint that signifies the damage one does. The best one can get with a footprint is no impact at all. The potential of a hand print is unlimited.
There are lots of examples of the environmental hand print The science educators of Ecology in Classrooms and Outdoors (ECO) teach first through fifth graders about streams and the soil. Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring
"When I was a boy ... I had dreams" are Captain Abu Raed's first words to the group of hopeful children surrounding him on the hill top in Jordan. The dusty dry soccer area circled by Roman columns and the airport become the settings in the award winning film, Captain Abu Raed. The older widower and several children from the village learn life's joy and lessons. It is a tale of truth, dreams, compassion, forgiveness, courage and sacrifice. Read more...
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