Be The Change
Do we take without giving And consume what we must, Ever heeding the motto: "In consumption we trust"?
Do we take without giving And consume what we must, Ever heeding the motto: "In consumption we trust"?
Robyn O'Brien | Posted 12.18.2009 | Living
We consume more pharmaceutical drugs than any other country, and we consume more chemicals in our food supply than the cows in France. Our lives have been devalued.
David Kroodsma | Posted 12.18.2009 | Green
Al Gore reminded us today of how far we've come. He recalled that in Kyoto, only one head of state was in attendance. Now over 160 arrived to negotiate.
Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics
Let's face it, our national religion isn't something cooked up in the deep Baptist south nor in ephemeral New Age San Francisco. No, it has been built stone by Gothic stone down on Wall Street.
David Kroodsma | Posted 12.12.2009 | Green
Before becoming an official "ambassador," I first needed to meet the people who selected me, and I also had to learn what exactly Hopenhagen is.
David Kroodsma | Posted 12.11.2009 | Green
Winning this opportunity is an enormous honor--especially because many other contestants were worthy and capable of representing you. I thus asked a few other contestants for their messages of hope.
Cicily Janus | Posted 12.07.2009 | Books
In artist communities around our country, it is imperative that we support each other and gather the support of others outside the community, especially in times of trouble.
Mike Lux | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
Through decades of violence, derision, arrests, intimidation, our progressive ancestors never gave into despair and defeatism. We should take their example to heart.
Olivia Rosewood | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
The theme of death this autumn, the season of dying, has brought home the realization that we are alive for now.
Tom Morris | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
There is something important to be learned from Jeff Dunham's improbable rise. Passion and belief are often able to create a path forward where none may exist.
Bob Cesca | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
It's been exactly one year since Barack Obama was elected, and it's becoming increasingly clear that the president hasn't fixed the whole world yet. Then again, he never promised such a thing.
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
It was not surprising to learn that New Jersey and Virginia both elected Republican Governors. But I could not have predicted the loss in the tiny, liberal, free state of Maine.
Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 11.03.2009 | Living
Have you ever wondered why your achievements in life reached a plateau when they did - how you were on the path of your dream before something got in the way and stopped the surge?
Gerald Sindell | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
Hope was intrinsically too big a promise to run on. Hope unleashes dreams of the beautiful, while politics by its nature can only deliver the truly ugly and barely functioning compromise.
Eva M. Selhub, M.D. | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living
Loss and change cannot be prevented in life. It would be nice, but the reality is that the future is uncertain and anything can happen. The key is to stay out of fear by controlling your physiology.
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green
When I look at my kids, I pray that they will have a world to grow into that is habitable and sustainable. The generation of "whatever" is doing great harm to the future of our existence.
Hamdan Azhar | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
If the Nobel Peace Prize Committee tells us that war is compatible with peace, who are we to say otherwise?
Jon Foreman | Posted 10.15.2009 | Impact
I would like to suggest that the best parts of our human nature can be seen in sacrifice or surrender. A mother sacrificing her time for her child, a teacher devoting her afternoons to help students off-the-clock. These are truly our most incredible moments as a species: moments of unmerited kindness.
Lester Sloan | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
While writers, poets, and scientists usually win the award for what they have accomplished, statesmen, philosophers, and other persons of ideas are honored for the causes that they champion.
Russell Simmons | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
I'm really afraid that our beloved country, America, is standing on its last wobbly legs. I'm worried that the karmic effects of our negative actions will finally come home to roost.
Thomas Frank | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
Barack Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.
Chris Campbell | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
When I saw the "Baucus Bill" today, I finally couldn't take it anymore. I could no longer fight for a party that I barely even recognized.
Michael Henry Adams | Posted 11.15.2009 | New York
On election night, Thompson stirringly repeated the refrain, "Eight is enough!", "Eight is enough!" We have a chance to win our city back.
Anne Naylor | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living
Have you ever been around a child who, with single-mindedness of purpose, has got just what they wanted - like a puppy, a new pair of shoes, a treat o...
Billy Parish | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green
Until we change our lifestyle, the Earth will remain in the danger zone. There is still time to bring carbon dioxide levels back down, but it's going to take a major transformation in how we think and act.
Robyn O'Brien | Posted 12.21.2009 | Living