Welcome to the ezine produced by SGI Buddhists that prompts the positive, kindles the constructive, highlights the hopeful and leaves you feeling - well, up!
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A Japanese village's strict recycling regime looks to a future free of incinerators and landfill
The inhabitants of Kamikatsi intend to do away with incinerators by 2020, to become Japan's first zero-waste community explains Justin McCurry
(Photograph: Robert Gilhooly)
Published on Sunday, 20 July 2008 19:00 | | |
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Do not walk behind me for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me, either. Just **** off and leave me alone.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a flat tyre.
Sex is like air. It only becomes important when you aren't getting any.
Published on Thursday, 14 August 2008 19:00 | | |
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‘I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass,’ says the celebrated writer and poet, Maya Angelou
Born in Missouri in 1928, Maya Angelou was traumatized by abuse as a child. ‘I was a mute from the time I was seven and a half until I was almost 13. I didn't speak. I had voice, but I refused to use it,’ she says.
Published on Monday, 11 August 2008 19:00 | | |
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A team of European scientists working with COROT have discovered an
exoplanet orbiting a star slightly more massive than the Sun. After
just 555 days in orbit, the mission has now observed more than
The latest discovery, COROT-exo-4b is an exoplanet of about the same size as Jupiter. It takes 9.2 days to orbit its star, the second longest period for any transiting exoplanet ever found, more |
Published on Monday, 18 August 2008 19:00 | | |
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Formerly No 2 at the UN and now the UK's Minister for Africa, Asia and the UN, Lord Mark Malloch Brown continues the discussion started by Alex Evans of the Center on International Cooperation at NYU
Thank you. And I'm glad you're still, even as we get into July, getting such good audience[s] at events like this and I think it shows the concern we all feel about this in a way perfect storm of issues, which has hit Africa - of food, fuel and climate.
Published on Thursday, 07 August 2008 09:00 | | |
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In her quest to find a cure for skin cancer, Louise Ellis explored both conventional medicine and Chinese herbalism to overcome the illness
When warnings
first came out about skin cancer, I remember having a nervous feeling
as I mentally ticked all the boxes. Blonde hair. Tick. Fair skin with
freckles. Tick. Suffered from sunburn as a child. Tick.
Published on Saturday, 26 July 2008 04:30 | | |
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Feel guilty when you say 'No'? Diane Southam has a few tips on how to be assertive