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In living mindfully, it is presence that truly matters. How, then, might our presence as educators transform the classroom? If we are present to ourselves, if we insist on the value of that standpoint...
The transformative power of the Internet is more than access to information; it is increasingly about contributing, collaborating, and participating. Metaphors based on information highways, are...
Most of us sit on the fence; one leg dangling shamefully in hindsight, the other swinging longingly towards a future that may redeem itself. Both parts of our disjointed selves miss what’s right in...
Paying close attention to life through mindfulness helps us discover a world that was always there, but with immense enrichment. Without it, we miss many of life’s pleasures, like recognition of the...
Sitting next to me on a cross- country flight was a representative of America’s youth. He was about seventeen, dressed in a complicated mix of black and silver (the metal, not the colour). He had...
I was the first to arrive at the usual meeting place across from City Hall. I saw other cyclists quietly pass through the square, looking around to see if a discernible group had formed. Eventually...
Over, under, through, we settle into a rhythm. Our click-click-clicking becomes a trancelike song. For perhaps half an hour we set about marking our territory, focused on one goal. As a police...
Since the 1970s, pundits have predicted a transition to an "information economy." The vision of an economy based on information seized the imaginations of the world's governments...
Like many others around the world on October 24th I took part in 350.org’s International Day of Climate Action. I headed down to Queen’s Park, where I found the Toronto Climate Campaign...
Washington monthly had an interesting article using data from the Pew Global Attitudes Project, showing an inverse correlation between the wealth of nations and the religiosity of their peoples....
For his first solo effort since breaking away from his successful band, Our Lady Peace, Canadian vocalist Raine Maida wears his influences on his sleeve. Kerouac inspired...
Travel writer Margaret Webb recounts a two-year journey across Canada in her latest book, Apples to Oysters: A Food Lover’s Guide to Canadian Farms. She toured from...
Joanna Macy’s text, World as Lover, World as Self explores our relationship with the future and the future of our planet. In it, she examines what we can do as individuals...
In the early 1990s, Cuba faced the dual dilemma of the Soviet Union’s collapse and the United States’ tightening of the trade embargo. What resulted was a deep recession...
The raw food diet, also known as raw foodism or the live food diet, promises to remedy unhealthy lifestyles by integrating fruits, vegetables, sprouts and nuts into meals...
The nervous system is a gateway to the world, acting as our conduit for sensory experience. The way our nerve endings send sensations through every inch of our body...
Across the globe, a remorseless pressure to produce food on an ever-larger, impersonal scale threatens the culture of food. For this reason I am an advocate...
The male hero of myth and legend is a young man who saves a victim or captures a great treasure. He seeks conquest and new horizons to control. He sacrifices himself for the greater good...
We need guidance from wise teachings to calm our deeply troubled minds. Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh provides this (2005; 2002b): Calming down, becoming serene is the first step of...
During a series of devastating losses, when it seemed as though a river of sorrow was sweeping through my life and I was hanging onto the bank, I decided to let go...
In a world of ever-increasing activity where we are expected to work hard, compete, strive and achieve, I deliberately take refuge in an alternative existence — a life of engaged simplicity. I...
I move slowly, a little doubtfully at first, arranging my body whatever way I wish. The dance instructor at this, my first, contact improvisation class assures me that there’s no wrong way. She tells us...
In our moment of history, perhaps the most sweeping and radical transformation ever to occur on Earth is under way. This “moment” is the twenty-first century, a lifetime from a human perspective...
