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The Mulch: Tepid Accord Reached in Copenhagen

The Media Consortium | Posted December 21, 2009 |

Read More: Alternet, Climate Change, cop15, Grist, Inter Press Service, Mother Jones, President Barack Obama

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger

After two weeks of negotiations for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop15), global leaders produced a limited, non-binding agreement that was noted, but not adopted. President Barack Obama presented the Copenhagen Accord to the summit on Friday night, calling it an "important milestone."...

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Be The Change

Robyn O'Brien | Posted December 21, 2009 | Living

Read More: Children, Faith, Gifts, Health, Hope, Inspire, The Inner Life

When we look at the world Do we like what we see? Do we think about others Or think about "me"?

Do we take without giving And consume what we must, Ever heeding the motto: "In consumption we trust"?

If we stopped for a...

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Of Breasts and Men

Juliet Linley | Posted December 21, 2009 | Living

Read More: Dating, Family, Italy, Mama's Boy, Mammoni, Mothers, Relationships, Unhealthy Relationships

I know a number of women here in Italy who complain they are married to Mammoni - Mama's Boys. Some are foreign, others are Italian. The fact is that they all find themselves having to share their lives with: a man living under his mothers' thumb and a mother-in-law (M-I-L)...

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Fundraising The Honest Way

Lee Schneider | Posted December 21, 2009 | Living

Read More: (500) Days Of Summer, All Cities, All Cities Networking, Boxofficemojo.Com, Budget, Careers, Current.Org, Fundraising, Movie, Pbs, Run Lola Run, The Giving Life, What The Bleep

If you're making a film you want the biggest budget possible. ("I can't live without at least one crane shot. I get depressed otherwise. Now get me a latte, tall, with crispy foam.")

So one morning you wake up, make your own damn latte...

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President Obama was Wrong about 'The First Man'

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted December 21, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize, Politics News

Early in his Peace Prize speech Barack Obama told the world that "war, in one form or another, appeared with the first man."

The president was wrong. And his mistake has huge consequences.

Anthropologists conclude that during roughly 90 percent of Homo sapiens' evolution, for nearly 200,000 years, we...

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Scapegoating the Minimum Wage

Christine L. Owens | Posted December 21, 2009 | Business

Read More: Economic Growth, Employment Rate, Minimum Wage, Minimum Wage Economy, Minimum Wage Jobs, Unemployment Rate

It wouldn't be the holidays if we didn't have grinches. In the spirit of the season, this week we saw calls to lower the federal minimum wage (yes, you read that correctly), thinly disguised as a way to help the economy. In this time of recession and high unemployment, however,...

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Perfectionism And Addiction

Hillary Rettig | Posted December 21, 2009 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Addiction &Amp; Recovery, Compulsive Overeating, Hillary Rettig, Perfectionism, Recovery

"This is all a giant procrastination and you must deal with it. You must."
- Words spoken to author and then-active alcoholic Caroline Knapp by her dying father, also an alcoholic (from Knapp's book, Drinking: a Love Story)

The link between perfectionism and addiction has been well documented, but...

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My Five Minutes on Fox

Nancy Jackson | Posted December 21, 2009 | Media

Read More: Cap And Trade, Climate Change, Fox, Fox News, Global Warming, Mike Huckabee, The Mike Huckabee Show

I recently appeared on the Mike Huckabee Show to talk about cap-and -trade legislation which I support. A live studio audience booed me vociferously. The Governor, whom I had admired, patted my hand and promised me safe passage from the building. Friends at home wondered what I'd expected. After all,...

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KIPP Houston High School: U.S. News And World Report's Gold Medal List As 16th In The Nation

Melanie Duppins | Posted December 21, 2009 | Living

Read More: Donorschoose, Donorschoose.Org, Kipp, KIPP Houston, Parenting, US News & World Report

Last week, U.S. News and World Report announced the 100 Gold Medal high schools in the United States. KIPP Houston High School, a college-preparatory school in the heart of Houston, Texas, ranked 16th on this list. This accomplishment is a significant testament to the...

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What's the matter with ...? (Fill in the blank with your favorite stock)

James Jubak | Posted December 21, 2009 | Business

Read More: Brazil, Investing, Iron Ore, Potash, Rally, Stock Market

Nothing like a market where volume is drying up as it usually does at the end of the year--which makes it easier for traders to move stocks on news and rumors. Especially when the world is so busy supplying lots of potentially market-moving headlines.

It's a potent combination. Enough to...

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'Complicated' Doesn't Equate With 'Funny'

Gwen Davis | Posted December 21, 2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Alec Baldwin, Comedy, Extramarital Affair, Fidelity, It's Complicated, Meryl Streep, Movie Review, Steve Martin

There is little doubt in anyone's mind that Meryl Streep can do anything. She can learn perfect German, be a middle-aged Italian, a mysterious English woman in another century, or Julia Child, letter and recipe perfect. But she cannot make a silk comedy out of a sow's screenplay.

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Forgiveness: What's Your Capacity?

Natasha Dern | Posted December 21, 2009 | Living

Read More: Forgiveness, Healing, Living, Living News, Mind.Body.Soul, Relationships, Self Development, Spiritual Growth, Spirituality, The Inner Life

One of the misconceptions about forgiveness is that if you forgive the person - you are letting them off the hook. That somehow forgiving them lets them be free and the Gods will smile upon them. This couldn't be further from the truth. The person who has harmed you has...

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Sir Harold (or, I'm Just Wild About Harry)

Paula Gordon | Posted December 21, 2009 | Media

Read More: Advertising, Everything Else Is Advertising, Harry Evans, Integrity, Journalism, Lord Northcliffe, Media, My Paper Chase, News, Sir Harold Evans, Sir Harry, Thalidomide, Truthfulness

 "News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising." With this quote, Sir Harold Evans, our era's acknowledged master journalist, summarized much of what I find crucial in his newest book, My Paper Chase. By resurrecting Lord Northcliffe's astute observation at the Washington, D.C. launch of...

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Kaddafi Back in My Backyard

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted December 21, 2009 | World

Like many people these days, I am a busy man. But that did not stop me from taking off several weeks from my professional life to fight Muammar Kaddafi's plan to take up residence directly next door to me this past August and September. Together with my friend and Mayor,...

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Can Working Parents Go Green?

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted December 21, 2009 | Green

Read More: Green Living, Living, Recycling Containers, Slow Food, Work-Life Balance, Working Mothers

Motherhood seems like a basically ecological undertaking. People who spend time feeding and nurturing the young can be expected to take an interest in keeping the food pure, the parks pleasant, and the air breathable. The very act of giving birth is itself all about recycling -- moving the DNA...

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Top 6 Tips To Improve Your Diet During the Holidays

Stefan Aschan | Posted December 21, 2009 | Living

Read More: Burn Fat Fast, Easy And Simple Weight Loss, Holiday Weight Loss, How To Lose Weight, Stefan Aschan, Weight Loss, Weight Loss Strategies

Analyzing food logs and giving recommendations to improve a diet is a daily task as a trainer and weight loss coach. And yes, some of them make me cry during the holiday season. For one reason or the other it is difficult for individuals to stick to their diet plan...

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Obama's Af-Pak War Should be Considered Illegal

Marjorie Cohn | Posted December 21, 2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Pakistan, United-Nations, War On Terror

President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize nine days after he announced he would send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. His choice to escalate the war may not have been what the Nobel committee envisioned when it sought to encourage him to make peace, not war.

In 1945, in the...

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Men Of A Certain Age: The Divorced Dad Hotel

Tom Matlack | Posted December 21, 2009 | Living

Read More: Breaking Up, Divorce, Fatherhood, Love, Masculinity, Men Of a Certain Age, Parenting, Ray Romano, Relationships, Separation

Ray Romano's new show Men of A Certain Age hit a nerve this week when Ray's character, Joe, tries to find his footing in the week-to-week rental hotel where he is staying while going through a divorce despite the fact that his kids have to visit him there and the...

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Are Some People Natural-Born Meditators?

Priscilla Warner | Posted December 21, 2009 | Living

Read More: Anxiety, Belleruth Naparstek, Chanting, Mantra, Meditation, Monk, Panic, Thich Nhat Hanh, Yongey Mingyar Rinpoche

I've attended several Buddhist retreats. I've listened faithfully to meditation CDs, chirping birds and delicate raindrops. I've stared into pounding surf and scented candles, chanted and recited mystical mantras. I've worked hard to learn how to meditate.

But the other day, I was forced to confront the...

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From Copenhagen to Milwaukee: Bringing the Global Climate Change Movement Home

Heather Box | Posted December 21, 2009 | Green

Read More: Biko, Climate Change, cop15, Copenhagen, Green, Green Living, Jayme Mongomery-Baker, League-Of-Young-Voters, Young Voters, Youth, Youth Vote

Jayme Montgomery-Baker is the Wisconsin State Director for the League of Young Voters Education Fund. She organizes young voters from the inner city to take part in the civic process. During elections, she runs voter registration, education, and turn out campaigns. The rest of the year she organizes young people...

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