Archive for the ‘Purpose’ Category
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Give Shop >>> Unconditional Giving & Receiving Concept Shop At Lowlands Festival
Another beautiful initiative from Giving Is All We Have, a movement to revolve the world around the contagious power of giving: Last weekend at Lowlands 2012, our Giving is All we Have crew have been working their asses off to help people remember what it is like to give & receive unconditionally. Results were mind boggling. Read all about it here. Background. So last year, I gave away my ticket to Lowlands Festival. A lot of beautiful stuff has happened ...
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Tibet Oral History Project >>> From The Eyes Of Tibetan Elders
As oral histories like these increasingly leave us with the passing of elders the world over, the Tibet Oral History Project signifies both triumph and sadness. In one sense we gain a time capsule of their stories and knowledge, in another sense it is a warning sign that these cultures are endangered. Ever more reason to donate to help fund this cause and thus fund the preservation of TIbetan culture. Here’s more: The Tibet Oral History Project aims to preserve the true ...
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The Age of the Unthinkable >>> Video
Joshua Cooper Ramo’s widely praised and bestselling book THE AGE OF THE UNTHINKABLE — Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It. Now available in paperback. For more information visit: http://hachettebookgroup.com/books_9780316118118.htm
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Seasteading >>> Government Free Cities In The Ocean Are Next Frontier For Human Civilization
I’m sure a lot of people have heard of seasteading already, but I hadn’t until today. Sometimes I get a bit disconnected from the world living on a farm, which ironically is the beauty of of this budding movement taking cities from land to sea where the next generation of pioneers can peacefully test new ideas for government free from government. The idea of these free floating cities is being spearheaded by The Seasteading Institute. To learn more about the possibilities, limitations, and ...
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One Indian Man Single-Handedly Plants a 1,360 Acre Forest >>> Article
Once upon a time there was boy named Jadav who began planting seeds along a barren sandbar in Northern India for wildlife that had no home. After many years, a few seeds grew into a forest and so the Molai’s woods was born. This story may sound like the beginning of a fairytale, yet it is the true story from Treehugger of real Indian man who single handedly planted a 1360 acre forest over more than 30 years: A little over 30 ...
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Snoop Dogg’s ‘Rolling Words’ >>> Smokable Songbook of His Greatest Hits
Saundra Jones Combining a smattering of eco-friendliness and the two things Snoop Dogg does best, smokin’ weed and makin’ music, is his new venture, a book of lyrics from classic Snoop songs called Rolling Words: A Smokable Songbook. Just as the name suggests, within this hemp covered stoner treat are pages made of rolling papers that after be rolled can be struck up with a match lit off the spine of the book. A brilliant marketing ploy to promote his new ...
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The Rise of the New Spiritual Counterculture >>> Article
Jonathan Talat Phillips, author of The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic, turns a spotlight on the flourishing spiritual counterculture in an article from the Huffington Post: It’s Feb. 17 and I’m standing in front of a full room at Gatsby Books in Long Beach, Calif. Once again, we’ve filled up the seats and people are standing in the back as I deliver my opening line, “If you told me several years ago I’d be here talking about Jesus ...
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5 Great Spots For Dropping Off The Grid >>> Article
CNN features some perfect places to leave behind the rat race, set up some solar panels, and take in a the beauty of life without illusions: Now is your chance to flee society. Drop off the grid. Pull a Thoreau. Be you a survivalist, an environmentalist or a cheapskate-ist, you can join the growing movement of Americans embracing off-grid living. “There’s a desire to step out of the rat race, and in America, that goes very deep in the national psyche,” ...
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Free The Network >>> Motherboard’s Documentary on Occupy Wall Street, Hacktivism, and the Hackers Trying to Build a Corporate and Government Free Internet
A new feature documentary from Motherboard TV was recently released called Free the Network, which focuses on just that, how young hacktivists from the Free Network Foundation stationed at the Occupy Wall Street camp in Zuccotti Park work to replace the corporate-controlled internet with a new, uncensorable, user-controlled network. Watch the full 30-minute documentary and read Motherboard’s full article on the film below. >>> You’re on the Internet. What does that mean? Most likely, it means one of a handful of telecommunications providers is middlemanning your ...
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Scientist Says Humans Can Transcend War
On the Last Word On Nothing, Scientist John Horgan explains by looking at evidence of human behaviours more than 10,000 years ago one can concude war is only a recent cultural phenomenon. Just as culture creates war, culture can help us transcend war. Only reaffirming my belief that a psychoactive culture would eliminate violence by humans. Here is an excerpt from the debate: There is no evidence of hominid or human group violence (as opposed to isolated acts of violence) dating ...
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Bail Out Iquitos >>> Peruvian City of Healing and Transformation Flooded and In Need of Help
Iquitos has become a place of refuge, healing, and transformation. Now, after recent and unprecedented flooding, Iquitos is “Beyond Red Alert” – the city and the people need your help. Unremitting torrential rainstorms in combination with a greater than normal glacial melt in the Andes has over the past few months created widespread flooding in the city of Iquitos and the neighbouring areas located in the heart of the Amazon Rainforest in Peru. The water levels in Amazon River and its tributaries ...
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MintChip >>> Canadian Mint Seeks Digital Currency
Maybe the Royal Canadian Mint got a little too inspired to jump on the smart phone gold rush after hearing about the big Instagram sale to Facebook yesterday looking to cash in by converting all cash to digital. Think of the app they could design? With one press of a button…BOOM! You’ve paid for your coffee. Or maybe it is actually just a natural evolution of currency in the digital age. Or is this one step closer to a totalitarian ...