In het bijzonder in de eerste jaren na de geboorte is het onze taak als ouders onze kinderen te beschermen, verzorgen en op te laten groeien in een zo natuurlijk en veilig mogelijke omgeving. Ouders zijn steeds meer bewust opzoek naar kwaliteit en producten vrij van schadelijke stoffen. Graag stellen wij voor "Naturkind kinderwagen", het gezonde alternatief uit Oostenrijk en de enige kinderwagen met een IVN certificaat.

De afkorting staat voor Internationaler Verband der Naturtextilwirtschaft. Om het keurmerk te krijgen moet je aan strenge eisen voldoen. Het product moet huid- en milieuvriendelijk zijn, en gemaakt van natuurlijke grondstoffen. De Naturkind kinderwagen is gemaakt met materialen zoals gecertificeerd biologisch katoen, een 100% wollen vulling, een Öko-Tex gecertificeerd kokos-latex matras, hout en kurk. Uit deze wagen zal je baby geen chemische stofjes opsnuiven!   Read more...

In het bijzonder in de eerste jaren na de geboorte is het onze taak als ouders onze kinderen te beschermen, verzorgen en op te laten groeien in een zo natuurlijk en veilig mogelijke omgeving. Ouders zijn steeds meer bewust opzoek naar kwaliteit en producten vrij van schadelijke stoffen. Juist om deze redenen werkt ekobebe alleen samen met producenten die natuur als inspiratie en basis hanteren voor het ontwikkelen van haar babyproducten.

Naturkind kinderwagen het gezonde alternatief uit Oostenrijk is absoluut uniek door het gebruik van natuurlijke stoffen en natuurlijk vullingsmateriaal zodat we zeker weten dat wat er in de kinderwagen zit er ook echt in hoort.   Read more...

Often our weekend plans include or necessitate the purchase or addition of something new in our lives. Maybe you need an outfit for a wedding, a new refrigerator or something smaller like cleaning products or shampoo. Whether it be toys or gadgets for your kids, a gift, or necessities like toilet paper and food, how environmentally sound and healthy of a purchase we are making is often the last thing on our minds during hectic weekend errands. We go to the store, pick up what we need and then move on to the fun stuff we wait for all week. A few minutes of thoughtful consideration before running errands can add up to big changes toward reducing our consumption.

Reducing our carbon footprint is a big task. Where to start? What makes the most difference? Tackling one thing at a time can be a manageable way to get to a greener place, so here is a challenge for all of us: Find something we have already or that you need/want that isn't green and replace it with a greener version, or better yet, get rid of it all together (in an environmentally-friendly way of course).   Read more...

Energy technology company Jetstream Wind recently announced plans that it will develop the world's first sustainable zero-emissions power plant. The plant will use power from renewable resources such as wind and solar power, which will then be converted into hydrogen and transferred back to the grid as available power, according to the New Mexico-based company.

The process is completely sustainable, doesn't create any greenhouse gasses and produces distilled water as a byproduct, a promising prospect for parts of the world without access to freshwater.   Read more...

On a recent afternoon, I went to a pottery shop outside of Tokyo and happened to meet the head potter who had stopped by to check on her staff.

After looking around the shop, I asked the potter if she had a few minutes to chat and explain her work to me. The first thing she talked about was how a potter never knew what was going to wind up coming out of the kiln. "Each kiln opening," she said, "was somewhat like Christmas morning. Sometimes you got many wonderful gifts, and sometimes you wound up with coal in your stocking, like when most of the pieces explode in the kiln due to severe changes in atmospheric weather conditions."   Read more...

Very few services exist for those who live without shelter in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. I want to change that! Prosperity House, a project of Many Paths World Service, is a high-quality, unique soup kitchen to serve the only evening meal to those who live without permanent shelter in the San Fernando Valley.

We believe that the whole being must receive attention, spirit, mind and body. We have just launched our largest campaign to raise $250,000 within 1 year to serve our first meal. This will allow us to build and sustain Prosperity House for these citizens who go hungry each night. Until there's not a need, we need to feed.   Read more...

The Great Kindness Challenge is one day where kids around the world dedicate themselves to performing as many acts of kindness as possible, using the checklist of 50 suggestions published on our web site.

On Saturday, August 8, we aim to have over one million youth participate in this one-of-a-kind global event. The Great Kindness Challenge is presented by Kids for Peace, whose mission is to cultivate every child’s innate ability to foster peace through cross-cultural experiences and hands-on arts, service and environmental projects.   Read more...

Our greatest asset is also our greatest challenge. How can that be? The answer is actually very simple. It is a single word that makes all the difference in the world. That little, powerful word is choice.

Every minute of every hour of every day, we make choices. Even choosing not to make a choice is a choice. How we respond to all of life’s occurrences is a choice. So make good choices. End of story.

Or is it?   Read more...

In onze Westerse maatschappij ligt de nadruk vaak eenzijdig op onze ratio. De Shaolin kunsten bieden een bijzondere kans om het leven te ervaren vanuit al haar aspecten; hoofd, lichaam, hart en ziel. Door de beoefening van Kungfu en Chi Kung leer je op een simpele, directe en effectieve manier het leven te waarderen en ervan te genieten. Respect voor jezelf, anderen en je omgeving staat centraal. In de lessen leer je je hart te openen, grenzen te stellen en je geest te zuiveren.

Het Shaolin Wahnam instituut, met wortels in het zesde-eeuwse China, is opgericht door Grootmeester Wong Kiew Kit om de authentieke Shaolin kunsten wereldwijd te verspreiden. Sinds 2007 is Shaolin Wahnam actief Nederland, met lessen in Amsterdam en Den Haag.   Read more...

The Novato Charter School is a tiny public elementary school in Novato, California, built and run by a small group of administrators and faculty with the help of a highly involved parent body. Absolutely everything that has happened at this small school (a Waldorf methods/best educational practices amalgam) is the result of individual dedication and vision. In 2001 the Novato School District offered the school a site. It was nothing more than a chunk of asphalt, the desolate former Hamilton Air Force base landing pad.   Read more...