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Giving Thanks for Action

Bob McKinnon | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Actions Speak Loudest, Bill Clinton, Do Something, Children, Politics, Thanksgiving, change.org, Martha Graham, Action, Climate Change, Childhood Obesity, Volunteer Match, Mike Huckabee, Margaret Mead, Henry David Thoreau, All for Good, Carbon Rally, Health Care, Books, Policy, Do Good, Distraction, Politics News
Bob McKinnon

When habitual distractions trump deliberate actions we focus on politics instead of policy, the selfish vs. the selfless, and the "urgent" vs. the important. We much change the action-distraction equation.

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Bob Trask: An American Thinker

Heather Robinson | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

Read More: American Philosphers, Bob Trask, Dale Carnegie, Communist China, Henry David Thoreau, Norman Vincent Peale, Self-Help Books, Self-Help, Book Publishing, Books News
Heather Robinson

Human beings have great power over ourselves and our life's direction through the exercise of free will. "We create our realities by where we focus our attention," Trask writes.

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Living in and Falling Out of The Vein of Gold

Rob Kall | Posted 10.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Awareness, Inner Strength, Self-Actualization, Self-Awareness, Henry David Thoreau, Living News
Rob Kall

It is not enough to know of, or, even better, to know how to access veins of gold. We must know how to maximize their roles in our lives.

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A Kilowatt Earned is a Kilowatt Saved

Patti Prairie | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Conservation, Social Media, Climate Change, Franklin Roosevelt, Henry David Thoreau, Benjamin Franklin, Brighter Planet, Ban Ki-Moon, Global Warming, Green News
Patti Prairie

Benjamin Franklin, Henry David Thoreau, and Theodore Roosevelt made the environment personal, not an abstract untouchable concept. We need to do the same on climate change.

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Deodorant Ads Help Us Learn About an Important Word: Incitement

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 09.21.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Colonialism, Poor Richard, Calories, Advertising, Henry David Thoreau, Incitement, Deodorant, New York Times, Ben Franklin, Arm Pits, Conversion, Cabeza De Vaca, Comedy News
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen

It's how a culture gets you to read yourself, so that you think you are just expressing and reacting to your natural, real self. But hello, culture invented your self. It's not entirely natural.

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Michael Jackson: Reflections On The Complexity of Being Human

Janice Taylor | Posted 07.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Alice in Wonderland, Michael Jackson, Plastic Surgery, Human Beings, Janice Taylor, Lewis Carroll, Henry David Thoreau, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Cheshire Cat, Healthy Living, Literature, Living News
Janice Taylor

In this moment of reflection, I offer you some thoughts from some of our most respected and best philosophers, writers and just plain folk that may help us find our way.

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What's an Unpublished Writer to Do?

Carol Hoenig | Posted 06.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Ernest Hemingway, Publishing, Authors Gude, Jason A. Spencer Edwards, Henry David Thoreau, Oprah, JASP Publishing, New York Times, Self-Published, Bernard Lachance, Without Grace, Deepak Chopra, Jiggy, Media News
Carol Hoenig

If an author who cannot acquire a traditional publishing deal decides to invest in their writing career by self-publishing instead of giving up, let's celebrate their passion and entrepreneurship.

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There is an "I" in Team

Ben Fractenberg | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ronald Reagan, Civil Rights Movement, Socialism, Henry David Thoreau, Obama, Rugged Individualist, Walt Whitman, Walden, Politics News
Ben Fractenberg

I received a text message the night of Obama's historic victory thanking me for my involvement in the campaign. "This victory is all because of you," ...

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A Green Opposition to a Colorless Proposition

Michael DeJong | Posted 12.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Al Gore Global Warming, Green Jobs, Think Globally Act Locally, Proposition 8, Lesbian, Rachel Carson, Green, An Inconvenient Truth, Straight, Gay, Civil Rights, Barack Obama, Teresa Heinz Kerry, Eco-Toxins, Transgender, Greenwashing, Henry David Thoreau, Environment, Green News
Michael DeJong

Eco-activists Rachael Carson and Henry David Thoreau didn't call for cleaner air and water for gay people - they raised their clarion call to ignite a flame under all people.

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