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 Saturday, 08 August 2009 19:00 | | 
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Burning left-over food and supermarket waste to provide energy sounds like a good idea writes Julia Stephenson. Wind farms, nuclear generators and coal powered gas stations are controversial so anything that can create energy out of rubbish is a great idea. Isn’t it?
Yet the news that that Tesco is sending 5,000 tons of leftover meat a year to be burned to generate electricity for homes created shock waves with vegetarians and meat eaters alike. It seems that green washing has reached a new low.
Published on Friday, 07 August 2009 19:00 | |
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Cultivating mindfulness isn’t only for the benefit of other
people, writes Richard O’Connor, we should also develop a compassionate
curiosity about ourselves.
Published on Thursday, 06 August 2009 19:00 | |
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Anthony Robbins, pioneering life coach and expert in leadership psychology, is an iconic motivational speaker who has been blazing the seminar circuit for over thirty years
Published on Thursday, 06 August 2009 15:45 | | |
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Being relentlessly upbeat and cheerful is seen as an important aspiration, while those who are faintly critical of their future are seen as being part of the ‘pity party’, writes Louise Ellis
We are told that those who strive to be positive, seeing the sunny side of life, or viewing situations from a ‘glass half-full’ perspective, will have better health and live longer. However, some experts warn that optimism can create a naïve headiness, and could even have helped cause the recent financial meltdown. 'Defensive pessimism' could help us to evaluate our lives more carefully, and therefore protect ourselves from future problems.
Published on Tuesday, 04 August 2009 19:00 | | |
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Winner of 26 international awards; provoking, witty, stylish and sweepingly informative, THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time
'THE CORPORATION is just brilliant - visually, intellectually, and morally. This film has redefined the documentary genre.' Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
'Move over, Michael Moore! Securing the participation of so many kings of capitalism was one of the film-makers most vital accomplishments.' Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New York Observer
'This vivid and often mesmerizing film lifts the veil from one of the most important and least understood features of modern age: the extraordinary powers that have been bestowed on virtually unaccountable private tyrannies, required by law to act in ways that severely undermine democracy and the most elementary human rights, and that pose a serious threat even to survival.' Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MIT
Published on Monday, 03 August 2009 19:00 | | |
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At last! A surfer who doesn't go with the flow!
An impoverished surfer has drawn up a new theory of the universe, seen
by some as the Holy Grail of physics, which has received rave reviews
from scientists
Published on Sunday, 02 August 2009 19:00 | |
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And now learn to fold a t-shirt...