The Koala pictured in this image wandered back to his home in New South Wales, Australia last week only to find nothing, except log chippings from the remaining's of the logging operations.
If one man's trash can be another man's gold, why give away your gold? I see so many gardeners spend tons of money on soil and fertilizer while they toss their food scraps in the garbage. If only they knew they were throwing out the very ingredients to make rich soil and amazing fertilizer!
A week after a student group calling itself the White Student Union announced plans to begin nighttime patrols of Towson University campus in Maryland...
Life is too short to spend your time being unhappy and adding to a long list of regrets. Put fear aside, really evaluate what you want out of life and how best to get it, and then go for it! You only get one go around, so why are you still at the starting gate?
This V-DAY, February 14th, ONE BILLION OF US will rise up in towns and cities around the world. People like you and me, coming together to show their support for a different kind of world.
This November, against all odds, the town of Longmont, Colorado, passed the first Fracking ban in CO. In support of the citizens of Longmont and to inform and encourage other communities in Colorado, Be the Change held a rally and performance event.
Stories like mine are becoming more and more unusual in America in 2012. Sixty five percent of Americans who are born into the lowest income quintile (like I was) spend their entire lives in one of the two lowest income quintiles.
Imagine your life if you were to change some of the patterns that hold you back. Imagine if you made better decisions instead of repeating the same negative habits.
Seven of the dynamic and luminous women and men from our book are included here: Nobel Laureates, scientists, activists and spiritual leaders in all walks of life.
Where would you like to express more courage? What conversation does your heart long to initiate if you were a master at courageous conversation?
What if real change came not from attacking a global problem directly, but by focusing first on changing ourselves internally?
I'm trying to approach this whole charity thing differently -- simply by not thinking of it as charity.
How do we balance our parental instinct to protect and nurture with the tendency to become overprotective, fear-based parents who raise fearful, reticent children?
Just by living in a more conscious way, I contribute to the whole, my relationships and my community.
Brown's victory is not the end of civilization as we know it but it should inspire all Americans to take a careful look at what they've done in rejecting Hope for No.
The question is what result does criticizing leave in its wake? Since criticizing, complaining, and gossiping are anything but solution-oriented, they bring destruction, not solution.
Change has to start within ourselves; we cannot expect the world to change if we do not.
Though our extended family would send Christmas gifts and I knew about Santa and his reindeer, the real magic for me came during the Winter Solstice.
Although I have made friends with fear, I have not conquered it. Fear arises as an instinct. But the more we work with it, the less it controls our actions.
Thanksgiving is a joyous occasion, full of laughter and cranberry sauce...once we get there. The getting-there part is usually not so fun, full of stress and traffic, which can put a damper in the joy of the holiday.
New Forms, Old Process. Despite the news avalanche surrounding Tiger Woods, he's not the only one standing on shaky ground. It is, however, the unexpected places that lead us to the real.
The 100 stories woven together in the book describe how people from all walks of life have used the profound benefits of meditation to improve their health and well being.
I'd sleep on planes and on airport benches, in the back of taxis and rickshaws and twice I've slept like a baby at Mt. Everest Base Camp, regardless of the 17,000 ft. altitude.
What is it that stops us from being the best we can be, from giving unreservedly, from caring for others more than ourselves?
There will be 1 billion fewer cigarettes smoked and 274 million fewer cigarettes littered if nobody lights up today. People say it is hard to stop smoking, but isn't it harder to keep doing it?
