Welcome to the ezine produced by SGI Buddhists that prompts the positive, kindles the constructive, highlights the hopeful and leaves you feeling - well, up!
Published on Monday, 12 September 2011 18:32 | | 
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How can business become more than just an activity to make money? Is there a way for it to support social and environmental issues?
Or does this conflict with the very essence of corporate culture - making money for shareholders?
Published on Thursday, 10 November 2011 14:17 | | |
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Maybe not… But one group of knitters – calling themselves the Yarn Stormers – claim their work is graffitti knitting. They sneak out at night and cover landmarks with bright woolly designs. Watch out for them in a city near you…
Published on Wednesday, 09 November 2011 18:41 | | |
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We need to explore the oldest and most powerful stories to help us confront the 'perfect storm' of challenges coming over the horizon, argues Eddy Canfor-Dumas
Published on Tuesday, 08 November 2011 23:54 | | |
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I was sorting out some old magazines over the weekend and came across an article on European unity that I wrote in July 1996 for a Buddhist periodical, says Eddy Canfor-Dumas. It is uncomfortably prescient...
Published on Monday, 17 October 2011 12:47 | | |
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OK, I get it now! The hookah bubbling away is just a more fruity form of smoking tobacco. But is the shisha tobacco — flavoured with fruit and the smoke filtered through water — a similar health risk or in fact far more dangerous?
Shisha cafés have always struck me as the Arab equivalent of ye olde English pub of yore, minus the beer-stained carpet.
The pubs I have occasionally used — usually for a quick dash to the loo — are bastions of maleness suggesting a bygone era. But I have never dared enter those exotic all-male shisha emporiums. Although I've enjoyed the fruity wafts of smoke as I walk by.
Published on Monday, 24 October 2011 15:52 | | |
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Still unsure about the pace of climate change? Or whether it’s even happening at all? Ask a Rear-Admiral, suggests Eddy Canfor-Dumas
Published on Monday, 24 October 2011 15:21 | | |
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It's all about dopamine and serotonin, apparently. And as anthropologist Helen Fisher explains, you could experience all three types of love with one partner - sexual lust, romantic love and deep attachment - or with different partners at the same time.