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 Wednesday, 19 December 2012 23:04 | | 
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Americans throw away 40 per cent of their food every year, even though an estimated 50 million Americans don’t have enough to eat. In the UK three million tonnes of food a year are dumped into landfill despite our economic woes and welfare cuts. Food waste needs to be addressed by governments and industry . . . but in the meantime local food recovery organisations are fighting back.
Published on Wednesday, 19 December 2012 22:50 | | |
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One of the most original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world is Karen Armstrong, a former Roman Catholic nun who left a convent to study literature at Oxford. She has written many books about what religions have in common - and about their effect on world events.
Published on Friday, 09 November 2012 12:50 | | |
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'Death is a great motivator of life.' An amazing international essay winner from 13-year-old Elisey Biryukov in Belarus
I have never really thought about the future until… Until two months ago an announcement was made at our school about one girl. She was seriously ill. She had cancer. A very aggressive form of it. The doctors in our country did everything they could for her. Still she was dying. Her only hope was the treatment that she could get in Germany. She needed minimum of 50 thousand Euros to be able to go and soon. The price of the human life. It's a lot of money here.
Published on Friday, 21 September 2012 20:25 | | |
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Daphne Koller started with a simple idea: make the world’s best university courses available, online, free to anyone who wants to take them.
Published on Friday, 21 September 2012 20:23 | | |
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‘One of the more heart-warming stories to zoom around the Internet lately involves a young man, his dying grandmother, and a bowl of clam chowder from Panera Bread.
Published on Friday, 21 September 2012 20:22 | | |
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This beautiful film follows young street boys and girls in Kabul where two Australian aid workers have started a skateboarding school.
Published on Friday, 13 April 2012 00:00 | | |
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Every two weeks, Jason and Karen Jarrett take a Buddhist study point and do their best to make it accessible and useful to listeners. They are members of Soka Gakkai International, a worldwide lay organisation that promotes practical Buddhism for living in the twenty-first century - not in a remote retreat but in the midst of ordinary, daily life.