I recently bumped into a “story” of a story, that became a book...
“Not Quit What I Was Planning ~ six word memoirs by writers famous and obscure" by Larry Smith and Rachel Ferschleiser, was inspired by the legend/story of how someone challenged Hemingway to write a story in six words or less, his response: Read more...
A group of us who have been marketing technology since the early 80’s are applying our expertise to help increase the U.S. awareness of sustainability. As part of a sustainability initiative within our direct marketing company, RED Direct, we created a prototype Web environment at www.earthsayers.tv. We saw a need and decided to fill it.
EarthSayers is a Website dedicated to the sustainability movement. The .tv denotes we feature the voices of sustainability, audio and video from across the Web, not print. We aggregate content from over twenty channels including YouTube and Blip.tv and unlike any other site, in addition to focusing on sustainability, we cover multiple formats ranging from documentaries to news to lectures to interviews. Read more...
In 2006, while still completing his studies in economics at Hampshire College, Alexander Petroff, the founder of Working Villages International, journeyed to the Ruzizi Valley in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. There his Congolese friends knew a progressive village chief who might be willing to donate land to start an eco-village for some of the victims of Congo’s ten year war
As Reiki originates in unity consciousness, so its practice also engenders the same. Let's understand how this happens. Earth and Celestial Ki are polar expressions, rather than being dualistic. There's a subtle distinction. Duality is one or the other, two oppositional forces that are separate. Water in the refrigerator is cold; water boiled in a kettle is hot. It's tough to jump from these directly to warm. Yet introduce polarity and the possibility of blending hot and cold appears. Polarity is the balance between two complementary states. It's the in-between state that can take us from duality to unity. Read more...
Prof. Robert Thurman (www.bobthurman.com) will be in Boulder, Colorado on July 23rd for a book signing and interview at the Boulder Theater. It promises to be an amazing time with an amazing man. Come check it out!
Get ready for the trip of a lifetime: yours. www.evolutionthroughvacation.com
Hi everyone! My name is Elissa. My colleague Gretchen + I have created something really fun and we'd love your input! It's called Evolution Through Vacation. And it helps transform vacations into powerful, personal development experiences. Read more...
YouTube star, Matt Harding, became a video start when he released his debut video "Where in the hell is Matt" in 2005 where he danced around the world. After 10 million people tuned in to watch Matt bust a move on an international level, Stride gum came calling and paid him to do the whole thing all over again, this time joined by his new legion of fans. Read more...
We live in a society that is fast-paced, consumer-oriented, and often impersonal. For this reason, so many people now crave personalization and celebration in life. We all remember any event that touches our emotions, that feeds us in a powerful way. Think about a wedding you attended where the vows were written by the bride and groom, the music was selected by them, the details of the celebration and ritual were carefully chosen to reflect the personalities and spirits of both the couple and their families and friends. Read more...
A group of 36 Northern California teens are taking their summer to explore their local communities in an effort to gain a deeper understanding of the issues that affect their local communities. Through the Coro Exploring Leadership Program these students will conduct formal and informal interviews of dozens of community members including district supervisors, non-profit executive directors, and prominent business owners. They will examine the communities' distinct configurations, characteristics, and cultures to answer the question
In the inner-city of Johannesburg, The GreenHouse Project is turning one urban park into a seedbed for sustainable communities. The program takes a holistic approach to the city's challenges, integrating green building and design, efficient and renewable energy, recycling, organic farming and nutrition. Read more...
How walkable is your neighborhood? Is your grocery store or coffee shop close enough to walk to or do you find the need to jump into the car every time you need a carton of milk?
Walk Score, www.walkscore.com, will rate how walkable your neighborhood is by calculating the distance your home is compared to groceries, retaruants, coffe shops and more. Read more...
What is “cogeneration” as a means of providing heat and power? -- Jerry Schleup, Andover, MA
Cogeneration - also known as combined heat and power, distributed generation, or recycled energy - is the simultaneous production of two or more forms of energy from a single fuel source. Cogeneration power plants often operate at 50 to 70 percent higher efficiency rates than single-generation facilities.
In practical terms, what cogeneration usually entails is the use of what would otherwise be wasted heat (such as a manufacturing plant’s exhaust) to produce additional energy benefit, such as to provide heat or electricity for the building in which it is operating. Cogeneration is great for the bottom line and also for the environment, as recycling the waste heat saves other pollutant-spewing fossil fuels from being burned. Read more...
Last July, nursing school graduate Libby Sauter became the first woman to successfully cross the Lost Arrow Spire Highline, located 2,890 feet high above the Yosemite Valley floor in Yosemite National Park. Considered by many who practice the art of balance sports to be a kind of Mecca, Lost Arrow Spire's height is equal to two Empire State buildings stacked on top of the other, plus 390 feet. It was last crossed twenty-two years ago. Watch this gripping video of Libby's courage, persistence, and history-making joy. Read more...
Tomorrow is the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year. How long is that? The only way to really understand how long it is, is to experience it. Get up with the sun and stay in its presence until it sets.
SOLSTICE SUNRISE: 5:08AM Eastern Daylight Time SOLSTICE SUNSET: 8:25PM Eastern Daylight Time Read more...
The word 'energy' is bandied about so much these days. And it's highly relevant as it underlies life. It's important to also understand that there are different kinds of energy. Metabolic energy is what we use to fuel the physical body. There's psychic, emotional and mental energy. Then there's healing energy.
Even if we were to understand Reiki purely on energetic terms, the distinction still needs to be made that Reiki is spiritual energy, or rather a way to tap into it. What might that be? It's the all-encompassing, overarching common denominator. Read more...
1) What aspirations do you have for your life that if pursued, could provide the preamble for more passion, inspiration and transformation in your life and the world you live in?
2) Do those dreams, desires, gifts, skills, and talents enhance and elevate the resilience you have too your own inner wisdom and the service you could provide to the one greater Earth community? Read more...
Sheila Kennedy, an expert in the integration of solar cell technology in architecture who is now at MIT, creates designs for flexible photovoltaic materials that may change the way buildings receive and distribute energy.
These new materials, known as solar textiles, work like the now-familiar photovoltaic cells in solar panels. Made of semiconductor materials, they absorb sunlight and convert it into electricity. Read more...
Ever wonder what goes on inside your Mind? Do you understand terms like (1) Conscious Mind (2) Sub-conscious Mind (3) Brain Cells (4) Barrier-line (5) The Field of Consciousness Region. What if you were told that these five entities of mind make up your own mind? Also, ever notice, that there is a part of us that is non-physical and longs to communicate with us. These five parts of the mind become the conscious thinking mechanism of the mind. The point I'm trying to make is this: Once you learn what a mind is composed of, you can deliberately monitor your own thoughts you can go beyond the conscious thinking mechanism of mind and access the non-physical counter-part within you. Read more...
In April, 2004 Marco Visscher of Ode magazine wrote about Maggie's Organics, "How dozens of women in Nicaragua built their own factory for stitching T-shirts and socks of organic cotton." Maggie’s has continued its commitment to socially responsible business practices, selling organic fibers for 16 years. We have long been featured at natural products’ stores nationwide, most notably Whole Foods. All our products are long-lasting, durable, and comfortable. Read more...
The French documentary, called “The world according to Monsanto” (Le Monde selon Monsanto) and directed by independent filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin, paints a grim picture of a company with a long track record of environmental crimes and health scandals.
Read more about Monsanto and genetically modified seeds on www.bewust-leven.org (*Dutch only) or buy the DVD on www.arte-boutique.fr. Read more...
The first U.S. demonstration-scale cellulosic ethanol plant has opened in Jennings, Louisiana. Verenium’s new plant will make ethanol from sugar cane waste and has the capacity to produce 1.4 million gallons a year. Until now, only labs and small-scale pilot projects have used the technology for converting non-food feedstocks into ethanol. Next year the company plans to start construction of commercial plants that will each produce 20-30 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol a year.
Australia is set to build the world largest wind farm in 2009. Greenwashing, these guys are full of **it! Read more...
Dearest Friends ~
Recently my dearest friend Joe Vitale sent an email to me inviting me to share my story of how his messages using what is known as the Law of Attraction changed my life. Below here is part of the original email he sent and also my response to him. I changed my life using intention and I know that you can change yours too! Read more...
Integrity: We align our thoughts, our words, our actions, and our love with source energy, with The Pure Consciousness of the Cosmic Source of All That Is and with the loving Oneness of our heart and soul.
OM: One Moment at an Earth Time ~ Integrity is so much more than being earthly truthful with other souls. It is being honest with our own souls first. Integrity is living in accordance with our hearts and souls, within the OM or One Moment at an earthly time. Integrity is living in and within our loving nature ~ choosing love, soulful love, light, and Oneness, honoring both our soul and the source of All That Is, that we are and emanate from in each OM, each One Moment and then in turn in the natural flow of what comes of our honoring all souls and all essences. Read more...
I believe in unknown heroes. Stele Eugene Ely is one of them. He is the founder of XO earth, a small organization in Colorado that promotes a different and revolutionary exchange currency: the "EarthE."
For every good thing you do for the environment, you can print your own EarthE and exchange it as actual money in many stores within the state. Read more...
Dear EarthTalk: I want to offer my employees a 401(k) plan that is socially and environmentally responsible. Are there such plans and, if so, where do I look? -- CJ Hughes, Queens, NY
Even though socially responsible investing (SRI) has been around for decades, only recently have some companies begun to offer their employees greener options for 401(k) retirement investment accounts. Read more...
It’s almost a decade into the 21st century and this planet is drowning in stuff. Debris, garbage, trash, rubbish - it doesn’t matter what we call it. It’s everywhere. It’s even become an island unto itself in the ocean. Things we don’t want. Things we once wanted and no longer have any use for because a bigger or smaller, better, faster thingamajig is now available and we want that.
Even recycling and compost that get transformed into something else, something useful, can take up a lot of time and attention. Read more...
Now that the Democratic Party's primary celebrity death match is over (kind of; we'll cross our fingers and hope for Saturday), you're probably wondering, "now what?"
What fun could the Democratic National Convention possibly be? Well. We'll tell 'ya. There's this little thing called Cinemocracy happening, and it's gonna be big. The Denver Office of Cultural Affairs and the Denver Film Society have teamed up to bring you Cinemocracy: the Film Festival at the DNC. Here's the deal: you submit your film of up to 5 minutes in length at www.cinemocracy.org, the subject matter having something to do with democracy in all it's many parts. Let your peers vote on your film and you might get the chance to have your film shown publicly in Denver during the DNC. Read more...
Our green Father's Day Gift Guide and the coolest things on two wheels or less. Read more...
Dear EarthTalk: What’s available now in lawnmowers that are easier on the environment? My yard is too big for one of those “reel” mowers, and I’m no longer a spring chicken, so I have to buy something that runs on more than human power. What’s out there? -- Joel Klein, Albany, NY
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), traditional gas-powered lawnmowers are a public nuisance to say the least. Using one of them for an hour generates as many volatile organic compounds
For many years I struggled to find my purpose in life. Through inward reflection and self observation, I came to realize that in order for me to function in this society, I had to abandon the American Dream. I didn't want the American Dream anymore. I was disconnected from it.
I wanted to live as part of the vast Universe and define my passion. What am I here on this earth to do? I recognized that my purpose was to be of service to others but in what way I wondered? Steadfast in reading, research, meditation and prayer, I opened myself up to the journey. I told the Universe to create a life path for me to journey, as it knew my heart's desire and the radiating energy from within. The Universe guided me to personal development. I soon realized that in order to travel this universal journey, I had to become a student of personal development. I quickly learned that I understood the language of personal development and was completely connected to it. Read more...
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