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 Friday, 19 September 2008 06:00 | | 
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Sarah Palin, the Republican Party's vice-president nominee, governs an oil-rich area that has seen some of the most dramatic effects of climate change.
The media have given her family the
full soap opera treatment, but perhaps they should focus instead on her
environmental record which is truly alarming. 'We need to drill, drill,
drill,' she told the Wall Street Journal recently, and she is in the
forefront of moves to exploit the long-protected Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
Published on Friday, 19 September 2008 19:00 | |
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AGONY
My partner’s keen for us to start a family. What’s holding me back is that she can’t seem to stop shopping.
We have a joint bank account and although I have a reasonably well-paid job in the city (for the time being at least), we struggle to pay the bills at the end of the month because she’s spent a fortune on clothes, botox or ‘accessories’. Whenever I try to raise the issue of her overspending she flares up and accuses me of not loving her any more or of being tight. She says she wants to be a stay at home mum. I’m the main breadwinner, but I dread to think what will happen if we have one less income and one more mouth to feed.
Published on Thursday, 18 September 2008 19:00 | | |
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Giving laptops to children who live without electricity, the telephone or even running water seems crazy - but it's producing startling results
A clutch of children are darting around a dusty village in one of the poorest and most remote areas of Cambodia. They are measuring arms, legs, noses, each other - anything! Older kids are leaning over a computer in the dry heat, trying to understand how gears work. Later, they are going to use the measurements and their new knowledge of gears to animate robots. A small child shows another how to press a computer key to produce musical sounds.
Published on Tuesday, 16 September 2008 19:00 | | |
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Many people would say not. But a new and well-researched investigation into the UN’s role in peacekeeping argues otherwise.
Review by Marie Colvin
Published on Sunday, 14 September 2008 19:00 | |
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And now take a look at Fat Cats Etcetera in Funny Stuff!
Published on Friday, 12 September 2008 10:24 | | |
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Next weekend London’s Greenest homeowners will be opening their doors – don’t miss out! By Julia Stephenson
A growing number of homeowners have reduced their bills, increased their quality of life and slashed their carbon emissions by super-greening their homes. By employing exciting technologies like solar and wind power, as well as money-saving measures like insulation, rainwater harvesting and green building techniques,(some quite outré - anyone for hemp bricks, bamboo computers and marbleized kitchen surfaces made from recycled mobile phones?) they are leading the way.
Published on Friday, 12 September 2008 19:00 | |
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Counsellor and member of the Western Buddhist Order, Bodhakari believes that western psychotherapy would benefit from having a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness of life.