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Can Artists Save The World?

Julia Moulden | Posted 06.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Tom Stoppard, Toni Beatty, White House, Michael Pollan, Grassroots, New Radicals, Garden, Careers, Mexico, Artists, Obama, Julia Moulden, Victory Garden, The Giving Life, Living News
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A photograph of me circa 1977 hangs over my desk. It was taken by Toni Beatty, an American photographer I met when we shared adjoining villas and a g...

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Must The Blind Lead The Blind?

Julia Moulden | Posted 06.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Bridgestar, Julia Moulden, Verizon, Careers, New Radicals, gifthub.org, Naacp, change.org, Cnib, Bridgespan, Jobs, Blind, Blindness, Living News
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Clearly, something big and important is going on. A major shift in the way people think about work. Might we consider welcoming the people who want to be the New Radicals with open arms?

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A Writer, A Doctor, And A New Radical

Julia Moulden | Posted 06.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Medicins Sans Frontieres, Joan Didion, Doctors Without Borders, Africa, Charity, James Maskalyk, New Radicals, Sudan, Careers, The Giving Life, Living News
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4:00pm, Thursday. I am on my back on my couch, encouraging the muscles that run between my frozen shoulder and my vertebrae to relax. Everything is in...

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Charity Is Dead

Julia Moulden | Posted 06.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Claire Williams, Henry Kissinger, Charity, Earth Day, New Radicals, Speaker's Corner, Giving, The Giving Life, Living News
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Does Speaker's Corner still exist in London's Hyde Park? When I was a teenager in the early 70s, our family lived in Europe, and seeing a young man at...

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Hope Runs: Helping Orphans Find Their Footing

Julia Moulden | Posted 05.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Claire Williams, Runner's World, Kenya, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, New Radicals, Choyster, Hope Runs, Oxford University, AIDS Orphans, Said Business School, Julia Moulden, Africa, The Giving Life, Living News
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With the current economy, people are turning inward and thinking about themselves. I think one thing people can do is go on one of these transformational trips, or volunteer to do something.

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How Play Is Changing Children's Lives

Julia Moulden | Posted 05.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Careers, New Radicals, Johann Koss, Julia Moulden, Right to Play, Moving the Goalposts, Play, Sport, Olympics, Boxgirls, Health, The Giving Life, Living News
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Children need play for their physical, psychological, and social development.

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What Are You Reading?

Julia Moulden | Posted 05.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Philanthropy, Sean Stannard Stockton, Giving, New Radicals, Books, Julia Moulden, The Giving Life, Living News
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Whenever I interview someone - or am being briefed by a client for whom I'm writing a speech - I always ask, "What are you reading?" It helps to know ...

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Six Questions for Emerging New Radicals

Julia Moulden | Posted 04.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Al Gore, Baby Boomers, Social Entrepreneurship, Values, Work, Climate Change, Careers, Skoll World Forum, New Radicals, An Inconvenient Truth, Skoll Foundation, Julia Moulden, Living News
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If you're wondering what a "New Radical" is, it's someone who's found a way to put the skills acquired in their career to work on some of the world's greatest challenges.

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Riders For Health

Julia Moulden | Posted 04.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Barry Coleman, Africa, Global Fund, Julia Moulden, Andrea Coleman, New Radicals, Jeff Skoll, Skoll World Forum, Ebay, Riders for Health, Skoll Foundation, The Giving Life, Living News
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I wonder if a woman who once raced motorcycles ever imagined herself running an ambulance service in the heart of Africa... Yet that's just what Andre...

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An Open Letter To Jeff Skoll

Julia Moulden | Posted 04.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Ebay, Jeff Skoll Ted, TED Conference, Social Edge, Skoll Foundation, New Radicals, The Giving Life, Jeff Skoll, Living News
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Dear Jeff Skoll, I always had you pegged as an ideas guy. I mean, co-founder of eBay, how cool is that? But lately I've been starting to see you as ...

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Six Billion Reasons To Get Out of Bed Each Day

Julia Moulden | Posted 03.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Oxford University, New Radicals, Nobel Peace Prize, Social Entrepreunership, Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus, Julia Moulden, The Giving Life, Living News
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With all the bad news about, you may feel like pulling the covers up over your head and waiting until it's over. That thought has certainly crossed my...

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A Valentine's Day Inspiration: To Sir, With Love

Julia Moulden | Posted 03.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Education, To Sir With Love, Obama, New Radicals, Positive Energy, Behavioural Science, Boomers, Sacramento, Valentine's Day, Doing Good, Sidney Poitier, Featured Contributor, Living News
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Looking for a great movie for Valentine's Day? Something to help you believe again in the power of love to save people's lives and change the world? ...

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Save The Girls, Save The Economy

Julia Moulden | Posted 03.10.2009 | Living

Read More: CBC Radio, Women, Girl Effect, Davos, Mali, Nike, Unicef, Melinda Gates, Eve Ensler, New Radicals, World Economic Forum, Gates Foundation, The Giving Life, Vagina Monologues, Featured Contributor, Living News
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The video begins with a provocative statement. "The world is a mess." And asks the viewer to agree or disagree. How would you respond? (Watch video....

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I Wish Obama Would Kiss Me

Julia Moulden | Posted 03.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Year of the Ox, Michelle Obama, Harper's, Lewis Lapham, President Obama, Eat Pray Love, Julia Moulden, Elizabeth Gilbert, Michael Valpy, Globe and Mail, New Radicals, The Giving Life, Featured Contributor, Living News
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Blame it on the Year of the Ox - or the year of hugs and kisses, "ox", as I'm calling it. What got me started was seeing how so many commentators are...

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New Radicals Take A Leap Of Faith

Julia Moulden | Posted 02.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Uk, Michael Elliott, Tony Blair Faith Foundation, Time Magazine, Tony Blair, New Radicals, Librarians, Britain, Brazil, The Giving Life, Living News
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Over the holidays, I was tossing old magazines into the recycling bin when I spotted the June issue of TIME, and an article about former British prime...

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Unleash Your Inner Obama

Julia Moulden | Posted 02.02.2009 | Living

Read More: New Radicals, Jfk, Positive, Constructive, Hopeful, America, Work, Obama Presidency, Careers, Obama, Julia Moulden, Living News
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This was originally published on November 8th, 2008. President-elect Barack Obama has captured the world's imagination. He has helped us believe that...

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Top 10 Reasons to Become a New Radical

Julia Moulden | Posted 01.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Paul Gillespie, Right to Play, Nicole Pageau, Melissa Dyrdahl, New Radicals, Suzanne Seggerman, Teach for America, Bring Light, Mark Brayne, Ron Dembo, Kids Internet Safety Alliance, Games for Change, Johann Koss, Julia Moulden, Zerofootprint, Wendy Kopp, Tony Leighton, Rwanda, Living News
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[This is a refreshed repeat of one of Julia's most popular posts.] When I was writing my book about New Radicals (that is, people like you and me who...

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Stories To Live By, Thanks To "The Elders"

Julia Moulden | Posted 01.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Mary Robinson, Holidays, Peter Gabriel, Christmas, Richard Branson, Jimmy Carter, New Radicals, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Desmond Tutu, The Council of Elders, Kelly Toughill, Graca Machel, The Giving Life, Living News
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People around the world tell stories at this time of year - around the table, by reading aloud to one another, and through song. These tales are a way...

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How To Give A Little But Get A Lot

Julia Moulden | Posted 01.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Holidays, Literacy, Shopping, Xo, New Radicals, Frozen Shoulder, Drew McManus, Christmas, Melissa Dyrdahl, Changing the Present, Robert Tolmach, One Laptop Per Child, Giving Groups, Gifts, Bring Light, Julia Moulden, Living News
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It's that time of year again. But this holiday season feels different, doesn't it? Lots of people are shifting their gift giving practices so that the...

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Games For Change

Julia Moulden | Posted 01.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Daniel Pink, UN Food Force, Virtual Reality Medical Center, Nintendo Game Boy, Obama, New Radicals, Suzanne Seggerman, Whole New Mind, Games for Change, Julia Moulden, Careers, Hidden Agenda, Central American Politics, Video Games, Un, Glucoboy, The Giving Life, Living News
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Inspiration doesn't only come when we step away from our normal routine, yet often this is the case. Suzanne Seggerman had been a documentary filmmake...

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Be Thankful For Fresh Thinking

Julia Moulden | Posted 12.30.2008 | Living

Read More: Bill Clinton, University of Toronto, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Ken Caldeira, Paul Simon, Carnegie Institution, New Radicals, Obama, E.O. Wilson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Philippee Starck, Government, New Yorker, Climate Change, Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict, TED Conference, Michael Specter, Cameron Diaz, World Economic Forum, The Giving Life, Living News
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I'm giving a speech on Monday about authentic leadership - with references to President-elect Obama sprinkled liberally throughout - to an association...

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How To Change the World Through Your Workplace (Part 2)

Julia Moulden | Posted 12.23.2008 | Living

Read More: Giving Life, Social Innovation, HurriQuake Nail, Ibm, MaRS Centre, Workplace, S Renewable Energy, Social Entrepreneurship, Second Life, Stanley Bostitch, Ed Sutt, New Radicals, Innovation, Julia Moulden, Living News
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On Monday, I spoke at the Social Entrepreneurship Summit held at the MaRS Centre in Toronto. Although, as the name suggests, people came to learn abou...

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Driving Change From Inside Your Workplace (Yes, You Can!)

Julia Moulden | Posted 12.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Giving Life, Baby Boomers, Workplace, S Renewable Energy, Stanley Bostitch, The Giving Life, Ed Sutt, Innovation, New Radicals, President-Elect Obama, Julia Moulden, Living News
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The response to last week's post made me realize it's time to write about New Radical Innovators (New Radicals are people like you and me who've found...

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Unleash Your Inner Obama

Julia Moulden | Posted 12.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Work, Constructive, Julia Moulden, Careers, Obama, New Radicals, Jfk, Positive, America, Hopeful, Obama Presidency, Living News
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Let's not wait for one man to save the world. Let's use the exuberant energy of his triumph to propel each of us forward.

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Helping Our Children Grow Organically

Julia Moulden | Posted 12.02.2008 | Living

Read More: Google, Trent McNair, Surf City Growers, Children, Julia Moulden, New Radicals, Linda McNair, Organics, Gardens, The Giving Life, Living News
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"Nana, what else can you teach me?" This is what my niece whispered into my mother's ear as she drifted off to sleep after a busy day learning what u...

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