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TRANSITION INITIATIVES: Engaged community building to combat climate change
A Transition Initiative is a place where there’s a community-led process that helps that own/village/city/neighbourhood become stronger and happier …
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LIFE IS CHANGE: Learn to let go of fear and accept change
Imagine that you have your hands full of chocolate cookies and your mother comes along with a cherry pie, hot from the oven with crumbles on top (feel free to…
EARTHSHIP HOMES: A blueprint for the green life
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DEEP LISTENING: Experience true love through understanding
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DISTRESSED DENIM: Fashion that puts the Earth under stress
This season’s hottest fashion, introduced under the Pierre Balmain designer label, are acid washed distressed jeans, designed by Christophe Decarnin…
ABIDING HAPPINESS: Embracing the reality of life with acceptance
Why don’t my children listen to me? Why can’t politicians tell the truth? Why did it have to rain on my wedding day? Reality baffles us. We question it every day…
PRACTICE CREATIVITY: How to make creativity part of your routine
Leaders know that creativity and innovation are the lifeblood of their organization. So, the mission of every leader should be to search continually…
THE CAT’S MEOW: Cruelty to animals and animal revenge
I liked Jimmy – nobody else did. Not my friends, parents, roommates, and not Zeus. Zeus was a four year old Siamese with attitude and I belonged to him…
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MINDFUL TOURISM: Travel below the high tide mark leaving no footprints
Why do we visit other countries? Is it to go absorb a different culture, to indulge in new experiences, to breathe in the aroma of different lands, to meet different …
LIVING IN HARMONY: Leh shows what religious tolerance is all about
Two Muslim women in traditional attire walk past a group of Buddhist monks dressed in maroon robes. Stupas, Buddhist religious monuments…
HEALING POWERS OF NATURE: Experiential outdoor programs as therapy
The day begins with four families tentatively driving minivans down a dirt road outside of St. Petersburg, Florida to meet their counselors for their first overnight…





