You've gotten the memo that red wine is good for you, right? When consumed in moderation, wine contains antioxidants that are beneficial to good health. They're known to prevent high cholesterol..and maybe even diseases like cancer.
Instead of getting a little tipsy on one or two glasses of red wine a day, you can check out Embodi. Emodi is "Specially designed to give you all the benefits of red wine without the alcohol." Their website says, "All natural Embodi is the only healthy drink to take advantage of the full antioxidant power of the red wine grape." They say their product is perfect for those who want to get more out of life. Read more...
Huey Johnson, founder and president of the Resource Renewal Institute (RRI) - a nonprofit organization that incubates ideas and practices for environmental sustainability - compliments the Dutch system of environmental regulation, recommending elements of their plan to the U.S. Johnson finds the Dutch system exemplary, from the "passion" of protesters to the amount of power given to NGOs. Read more...
Bestselling author and editor David Cohen presents What Matters: The World's Preeminent Photojournalists and Thinkers Depict Essential Issues of Our Time
ARK is a new line of clothing fresh from Northern Ireland. It was created by an 18-year-old boy with the idea of inspiring people who wear the clothes to be kind to others each time they wear the brand...to commit one "Act of Random Kindness".
The ARK website unassumingly states, "So I have this idea. I'd love you to join me in it. I've started a clothing line with a purpose other than profit. The name, the movement, is ARK - Acts of Random Kindness." Cameron suggests the following ways to help someone while you're wearing an article of ARK clothing: "by someone a coffee, give up your seat on the bus, help a drunk home." Read more...
Goed nieuws haalt bijna nooit de voorpagina... behalve in Ode. In deze terugblik op 2008 presenteren we hier Ode’s tien meest positieve verhalen van het afgelopen jaar. En ondertussen kijken wij vast uit naar mooi nieuws voor het nieuwe jaar!
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Wat maakt het Godinnenspektakel uniek ten opzichten van eerdere groepering die tot een derde golf hebben opgeroepen? Wat het Godinnenspektakel uniek maakt is dat het niet uitsluitend één thema voert waarvoor gestreden wordt. Wij voeren zeven kernthema’s van de derde golf waarvoor wij strijden. Hiertoe hebben we een netwerk gecreëerd met dertig verschillende netwerkpartners die met hun expertise invulling geven aan deze zeven kernthema’s. Read more...
de wereld is gehuld in kleur van rood naar geel naar blauw het zuiverste licht omhuld die kleuren zo puur in rose en wit de lichten zijn ontstoken in vele vele harten het licht brandt fel en krachtig er is geen weg terug maar wie zou dat nog willen wanneer dit eenmaal is gevoeld wil men alleen maar verder en zien wat er gebeurd Read more...
Goed nieuws haalt bijna nooit de voorpagina... behalve in Ode. In deze terugblik op 2008 presenteren we hier Ode’s tien meest positieve verhalen van het afgelopen jaar. En ondertussen kijken wij vast uit naar mooi nieuws voor het nieuwe jaar!
1. Nog even over mijn generatie Goed nieuws! Een verdere stijging van de torenhoge energieprijzen kon wel eens de aanzet zijn tot een nieuw tijdperk waarin iedereen zijn eigen schone stroom maakt. Blaine Greteman | 109, september 2008 nl.odemagazine.com/_media/images/mag/0908generation.jpg Read more...
Last year I released my movie "Soy Adina" about two women raised in different worlds - an immigrant folk dancer from the Andes, and a modern dancer from Queens, NY - who return to Peru to reconnect with their roots through a astonishing world of traditional dance and celebration.
Last week I made my own reconnecting journey, from New York to Vermont to visit old friends Chandra and Erich. One freezing day we went to the Putney food coop, where I met Ode editor Carol Greenhouse who told me about this exchange forum! I think Ode readers will relate and enjoy Soy Andina. Read more...
Greetings and blessings for the New Year! We all live in times of concern, need and potential. At this time of year many are inspired to seek deeper levels of meaning and purpose within their life experience; we look for a quality of resilience that will allow us to elevate our present life experience to greater levels of possibility and potential in the expression of Who We Are.
As part of the celebration of the upcoming potential and possibility that lies within the expression of the coming New Year and every present moment, I’d like to share with you my most recent work: Soulananda: The essentials of a good life. Read more...
Op dinsdag 6 januari 2009 – de laatste dag dat volgens de etiquette een nieuwjaarswens mag worden uitgebracht – brengt boekhandelsgroep selexyz samen met tijdschrift Ode een groet aan het nieuwe jaar. Read more...
Het onderwerp 'arbeid' spreekt me al geruime tijd aan. Volgens mij ligt in dit menselijk fenomeen de sleutel tot een leven dat meer in balans is, zowel individueel als collectief. Ik zie nog steeds namelijk dat de meeste mensen werken vanuit het industriele kader dat ontstaan is eind 19e, begin 20e eeuw. In de marge zijn er wel nieuwe ideeen, maar zoals men in het algemeen over werk en dus ook onderwijs als voorbereiding op dit werk, spreekt, is het vanuit dat oude kader. Wij moeten hier radicaal mee breken, is mijn idee. www.werkwaardig.nl Read more...
Milieuvriendelijk lettertype Staat u er wel eens bij stil hoeveel inkt u verbruikt? Denk maar eens aan uw dagelijkse aantal printjes, of dat van uw kantoor: slechts één kantoor, in één stad, in de hele wereld. Read more...
Author Kelly Corrigan wrote this moving essay about the remarkable capacity to which women support each other, laugh together, and endure. The full text of the essay is available in the paperback edition of her memoir, The Middle Place
It's that time of year that everyone is making lists, talking about who's who and sizing up everything that happened in 2008. At the end of a year, your mind can also feed you some pretty tough questions about yourself.
Why didn’t you lose the weight? Why did you not sell those stocks and get into cash? Why are you still single? Read more...
Earth911.com writes, “Between 30 and 35 million real Christmas trees are sold in the U.S. each year.” They say that 93 percent of those trees are being recycled through more than 4,000 treecycling programs.
Treecycling is a simple way to put your tree (a renewable natural resource) back into the environment instead of in a landfill where decomposition rates are slow or burning your tree which can release harmful toxins into the air and creates fire hazards. Read more...
Hope Milner, a mother of three teenagers, became exasperated watching her kids buy, wear and toss t-shirts with increasing frequency. The end result? ReTeez www.reteez.com was born. ReTeez is a green, eco-friendly and innovative company that creates bags, totes and accessories from old recycled t-shirts.
Using an unconventional material, the company is not only reducing waste but also creating one-of-a-kind treasures. Milner explains, “With three growing teenagers, at least twice a year I would pack up their t-shirts and send them to the local Salvation Army. They changed their t-shirts like most women change pantyhose. In general, people don’t hang onto tees for very long. I wanted to figure out a way to do something with these shirts.” Read more...
Ferris embraced the principle that "fear is your friend" while overcoming his trepidation of swimming, dancing and learning new languages. Read more...
If Santa brought your family the purrrfect pet this Christmas, we’re sure you want to give that pet the best care possible. One important thing to take into consideration is your new pet’s diet. What will your new puppy or kitty friend be eating this holiday season?
It seems organic pet food is the way to go. It’s better for your pet, better for you, and better for the environment. Organic pet food is produced without petroleum-based pesticides or fertilizers and uses meat from animals that are raised humanely and fed well. Read more...
I receive the question quite often about meditation in my clinical practice. What is meditation? How do I do it? And what are the benefits? Quite simply, meditation is the intentional practice of experiencing life in the present moment. It's about realizing the power of now vs. the power of the past or future.
When we meditate, we can feel our breath trickle past our nose, tickle our throat, and expand our lungs and diaphragm. It is the moment when we lie down in bed after a long day, and luxuriate in the warmth and comfort of the sheets. And it is the sipping and enjoyment of a frosty mug of beer. Read more...
Good news rarely makes the headlines... except in Ode. To celebrate 2008 - and anticipate more good news to come in 2009 - here are Ode's 10 most positive stories from the year that was. Read more...
J. Craig Venter discusses his work with Synthetic Genomics, where he studied carbon feeding organisms in ocean sinks. Read more...
Peter Diamandis, Chairman and CEO of the X Prize Foundation, speaks at the Long Now Foundation about the history of the X Prize. The X Prize Foundation bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity by creating and managing prizes that drive innovators to solve some of the greatest challenges facing the world today. Read more...
Intelligent optimists are generally health conscious people who know how to take care of themselves and their families. All of us probably realize that what you put IN your body is very important. So hopefully you are eating a clean diet. My favorite book on the subject is Michael Pollan's "In Defense of Food". In it he encourages us to avoid "manufactured food-like substances" or processed foods.
One area of toxicity that often is overlooked though, is what you put in your ears, eyes and mind. I am talking about what you ingest mentally; the news, newspapers, movies, etc. Read more...
Fly2help is a charity lifting the spirits and horizons of people suffering from life threatening and chronic illnesses, families who have suffered tragedy, and those who are working to recover a sense of self-worth.
Established in the UK in 2006, the charity offers flight lessons to individuals, groups and like-minded charities. They say their core focus, however, is disadvantaged youngsters, "...with whom we aim to inspire imagination, determination, self-esteem and confidence." Read more...
Ethicalsingles.com is an online dating & friendship site specifically for like-minded singles who are striving to make positive changes in the world. They help connect people who share interests in humanitarian issues, social justice, animal rights, nature preservation, alternative energy, recycling, organic farming or endangered species.
Their website says, "Are you looking for a green dating site? A vegetarian dating site? A vegan dating site? Look no further for your personals! ethicalsingles.com is a global online dating service for people who are interested in human rights, animal rights and environmental issues, and are looking for meaningful, long term relationships, love, romance, marriage and friendship with like-minded individuals. Read more...
1. Eat Healthy-Let your dog chow down on food made with organic, all natural, human grade ingredients free of animal by-products, pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, artificial preservatives & ingredients or genetically engineered ingredients. Anything that you would normally not eat yourself. Treats such as Polka Dog Bakery and more use all natural, organic, human grade ingredients that is even good enough for you to eat.
2. Clean up your dogs poop - Scoop up your dog business with biodegrable earth-friendly alternatives and retire those plastic bags. Plastic bags take 100’s of years to break down when thrown in the landfills and help to preserves that squishy mess. An eco-solution to the "poop-lution" problem is Spike brand Business Pick-up Bags which are convenient, earth-friendly & biodegradable. Read more...
Citizen space takes the best elements of a coffee shop and a workspace and melds them together to create a place where you can get work done and socialize with other visitors. They rent desks in their San Francisco location for $425 a month and hold events in the space as well. Read more...
It is becoming harder and harder to believe NGO's, charity's and other organisations who are claiming to be making a difference in the lives of economically poor people in the south when you know they are going for your donating dollar or euro. Fundraising promotion campaigns work on our cultivated image of "the poor" filled with all our prejudices about what's the problem and what's should be the solutions. Wouldn't it be much more fair we ask them what their perspective is on how we are trying to help? With other words to let them tell the story... Read more...
Are you having trouble finding the perfect thing for that special someone on your gift list this holiday season? Looking for advice? Who better to call than the jolly guy himself - Santa Claus.
I am St. Nick is a new website created especially for this holiday season. After plugging in the phone number of your loved one and your email address, Santa will give them a personal call to find out what they want this Christmas. Santa will then email the results. Read more...
Amsterdam, 15 december 2008 1e Godinnenspektakel Event in Amsterdam op 9-2-2009
Wees erbij, op deze 3e golf emancipatie manifestatie! Read more...
Zelfs zaken die 100 procent ‘groen’ lijken, kunnen altijd duurzamer. Tuincentrumketen Life&Garden introduceert begin volgend jaar de zogenaamde duurzame orchidee, en het denkt na over verdere vergroening van het assortiment. Ook bloemen en planten zijn kennelijk onder te verdelen in groen, groener en groenst. Read more...
Vinoloog Els Groot en journalist Connie Harkema organiseren samen van 30 augustus tot en met 5 september 2009 een schrijfreis in de Luberon. Deze streek in de zuidelijke Provence heeft menig schrijver geïnspireerd. Read more...
SingleSpotCamping allows people to share land with each other. Their website says, "The idea is: anyone who owns land (it can consist of your garage entrance) and would like to welcome one or a couple of camping guests are welcome to connect."
The site allows people to register and list their camping-spot which could be a farm, a back yard, or even - like they said - the entrance to your garage. They say the benefits of SingleSpotCamping include a wide range of camping sites to choose from, opportunities to camp spontaneously, cheaper than paying for a camp-site, and many more. Read more...
Rob Coleman of the Rogue Element, a design and branding firm out of Chicago just announced their first annual Green Design Grant. The team will be giving away a year's worth of design services to a sustainable or green organization in need of design services who couldn't otherwise afford them.
Rogue Element does not have any limitations about where your organization is located, or even if it is in more than one location. They work with clients world-wide. However, any travel costs incurred by Rogue Element while providing services under the Grant will need to be paid by the winning organization. Read more...
Farm Forward is a nonprofit group advocating Americans to transform the way our nation eats and farms. They oppose the method of "factory farming" which began in the 1920's and is now prevalent in the meat, dairy, and egg industries. New farming technology has not been used positively and instead is promoting factory farming and destroying rural life.
Their website boasts their many accomplishments saying, "From years of innovative efforts to improve conditions on farms and in slaughterhouses worldwide, we have built a unique network of strong relationships with animal welfare experts, food retailers, nonprofit animal advocacy organizations, religious leaders, scholars, small farmers, and writers concerned about farmed animal welfare. This unprecedented network and our tight focus on rolling back factory farming allows us to enhance the effectiveness of existing organizations and implement comprehensive new strategies that are unavailable to other groups." Read more...
Thomas Friedman advocates for a bipartisan, revitalized definition of the term green. Read more...
Google is now allowing its users to create themes that showcase the change they are helping to create with an application called iGoogle for Causes.
You can choose to support organizations like Heifer International, Oxfam America, Ashoka, Doctors without Borders, Save the Children, charity:water, and Conservation International. Read more...
Ma'o Organic Farms is located on the island of O'ahu. They exist to help people who live in the Wai'anne region. Residents there have struggled due to scarce resources. Ma'o Organic Farms says the youth are struggling to achieve their socio-economic goals.
"The statistics suggest a bleak future for many native Hawaiian youth with the State’s highest rates of teen pregnancy, school suspensions, incidents of substance abuse, and juvenile arrests. In addition, Wai‘anae is recognized as the most food insecure region of Hawai‘ with native Hawaiians having the highest rates of preventable disease including diabetes, heart disease and some cancers." Read more...
Dan Burden, a nationally recognized authority on bicycle and pedestrian-friendly urban design, discusses some of the best communities being developed today - communities for people, not just cars. Read more...
There are many interesting conversations going on at www.themilkiswhite.com. Here are a few tidbits from the discussions going on there.
Have you ever thought about how much ink you waste? Think of your ink consumption on a daily basis...or the ink consumption of your office - just one office in one city in one country in the world.
SPRANQ creative communications was concerned about ink consumption and decided to be proactive. They created a new environmentally friendly font called "EcoFont". Read more...
Onze tweewekelijkse selectie van recent verschenen boeken die Ode graag onder uw speciale aandacht brengt. De redactie is benieuwd naar uw reactie op die lijst en vooral ook naar uw eigen boekentips. Hieronder kunt u uw reactie achterlaten. Read more...
Veilinghuis Van Beusekom veilt online decorstukken van de videoclip Papa komt vanavond niet thuis, gebaseerd op werk van Herman Brood. De opbrengst komt ten goede aan War Child Nederland. Read more...
Op 6 september 2008 werd Academie PanSophia officieel geopend. De Academie richt zich op het herontdekken van de vrouwelijke god, de vrouwelijke waarden en de bijdragen van vrouwen in oude en eigentijdse culturen. En op het overdragen van kennis, inzichten en vaardigheden die kunnen bijdragen aan het samengaan van vrouwelijke en mannelijke waarden in een nieuw, geïntegreerd mensbeeld. Vandaar dat de subtitel van de Academie leidt: kenniscentrum matriarchaat en eenheidsbewustzijn. Read more...
Zondag 14 december zendt de Boeddhistische Omroep op Nederland 2 om 12.00 uur 'De toewijding van Matthieu Ricard' uit. Een documentaire van George Schouten en Babeth M. Van Loo over de Franse monnik, schrijver en fotograaf Matthieu Ricard, die jaarlijks miljoenen doneert aan scholen, ziekenhuizen, kloosters en filosofische instellingen. Read more...
After walking past street musicians outside subway stations and seeing the emotional impact they often have on even the most passive commuters, Mark Johnson decided to highlight this engaging form of music. Read more...
We Media and Ashoka have teamed up to present the We Media Changemakers $50,00 Challenge. The challenge is called, "The Power of Us," and aims to find and help launch the best new ideas for inspiring a better world through media and technology. The contest invites entries from all fields. There will be two categories, one for business ventures and one for non-profit ventures. The award will be up to $50,000 in seed funding. The contest is funded by a grant from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation. Entries can be received until January 21, 2009. Read more...
Ja. Meer nog, het geheim van geld is de fundamentele oorzaak van de weerkerende economische depressies. Dat is althans wat de Amerikaanse econoom Murray Rothbard beweert in zijn klassieker "Wat heeft de overheid met ons geld gedaan?". Het boekje verschijnt maandag voor het eerst in het Nederlands. Read more...
Aafke van Sprundel is de gelukkige winnares van een gratis deelname aan een management developmentprogramma van SharePeople. Zij krijgt binnen korte tijd de kans haar eigen talenten in te zetten voor armoedebestrijding door te werken aan een real life business case van een lokale ondernemer in een ontwikkelingsland. Read more...
Op de tweejaarlijkse Sustainable Society Index scoort Nederland dit jaar een 6,4 voor duurzaamheid. Het land staat daarmee op de dertiende plaats van de 151 geïndexeerde landen, twee plaatsen lager dan twee jaar geleden. Read more...
Samen met de Ethiopische Debritu Lusteau startte Fransman Michel Le Roux in 2007 het project Branding Ethiopia, naar eigen zeggen ‘een nieuwe stap in ontwikkelingssamenwerking’. Doel van het project is eerlijke producten te maken die bestemd zijn voor de commerciële markt. Afgelopen zomer kwam hun eerste product op de markt: Meleya koffie. VoordeWereldvanMorgen.nl sprak met Le Roux. Read more...
Op 1 december is De Vloek van de Tahiéra verschenen bij Uitgeverij Boekenbent, een spirituele roman waarin dromen en het bovennatuurlijke, sjamanisme en reïncarnatie op een natuurlijke manier worden verweven tot een spannend avonturenverhaal. Read more...
You might carry a gym card, a video rental card, a subway card, a store-loyalty card. But a Taxi card? Unheard of.
What if instead of shelling out cash for every taxi ride, you were able to use a card, or to pay one flat rate for unlimited rides? Read more...
We often hear what is wrong with the environment, and the truth is that we do need to clean up our act so that we don't find cities like Venice - which has experiences recent record flooding - under water completely in the next few years. But there are small victories for the environment every day, and there were at least 10 big ones in 2008. Check out Plantetsave's top ten list here for more info.
1. EPA Required to Regulate CO2 Emissions
2. California’s Proposition 2
3. Sumatran Elephant Sanctuary Expansion
4. 320,000 Acres of Montana Forest Protected
5. Greenpeace Activists Acquitted in the UK
6. Sea Shepherd’s Migaloo Campaign
7. Incandescent Light Bulb Bans
8. Stronger EPA Regulations on Diesel Ships
9. Removal of Two Maine Dams
10. The election of Barack Obama Read more...
preemptivelove.org is an organization created in 2007 to help save Iraqi children from dying of heart disease after chemical attacks and other affects of war.
The organization works by selling hand-made shoes from Kurdish craftsmen we raise money for kids’ surgeries. Read more...
The new initiative Fresh2o says that one child dies from dirty water every fifteen seconds. To reduce this statistic, they have designed a campaign to raise awareness of this problem. And since a picture is worth 1,000 words, the UK not-for-profit is using images to inspire others to become educated about water cleanliness.
A photographer named Candice has created a powerful series of underwater portraits designed to, "...connect, engage and motivate consumers worldwide, altering the globe to the fresh water crisis." Many celebrities have joined the cause and have had their underwater portrait taken for the charity. This includes actors, singers and other personalities such as Will Smith, Keira Knightley and Natalie Imbruglia. Read more...
Playing for Change: Peace through Music is a global collaborative musical project with the goal of uniting people of different cultures, ethnicities and regions. The film and music will be available in 2009. Read more...
Encore Careers was created for people who want personal fulfillment combined with social impact combined with continued impact. It was created for passionate people who are looking to make a career switch or come out of retirement and do something really meaningful with the rest of their lives.
Their website says, "The Encore Careers campaign is a project of Civic Ventures, a think tank on boomers, work and social purpose. Other initiatives that are part of the Encore Careers campaign include The Purpose Prize, which invests in social innovators over 60; a community college initiative to develop pathways to encore careers; an awards program for employers of people in encore careers; and a pilot fellowship program for boomers in the Silicon Valley." Read more...
The premise of this idea is that money is one of the fundamental elements of today's society, so changing how money is created and used will change society at a fundamental level! The following are the main propositions of this new currency model:
1. Direct the flow of money towards socially, ecologically and environmentally intelligent producers of goods and services. Read more...
Egyptian blogger Tarek Amr said he was extremely distraught over the negative news he was finding online. “I was on a verge of a nervous breakdown because whenever I read any of the Egyptian blogs, I find nothing but torture, harassment, demonstrations, etc," he wrote. "Later on, when I started writing for Global Voices, I was required to select and translate blog posts into English for the world to read. At this point I fell in the clutches of a breakdown, it was almost impossible to find that little light at the end of the tunnel, the light that would make the Egyptians feel that Egypt is a beautiful country not a swamp.”
Instead of complaining and continuing the negativity, Amr decided to discuss an initiative with his fellow bloggers and friends. They now dedicate one day of every month to showcase a positive image about their country. Read more...
Michael Brune is the executive director of Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and a founding board member of Oil Change International, an organization dedicated to dissolving the political barriers to a clean energy transition. Here he cites evidence from a 2001 report which supports that the clean car technology available in 2001 would have saved more oil than is now imported from the Persian Gulf. Read more...
When Lebanese singer Rima Khcheich was asked to join the Yuri Honing Trio from the Netherlands for a cross-cultural collaboration called "Orient Express" in 2002, a very special and unique musical friendship was forged between her and double bass player Tony Overwater. Since that first project Khcheich and Overwater have frequently performed as a duo, mainly in the Arab world. When I met the two recently in Holland, Khcheich told me that before meeting Honing and his colleagues, she had rarely listened to jazz.
"Having been trained as a classical Arabic vocalist, I was used to singing with an orchestra playing exactly the same melody. So all those strange chords and counter melodies were really very confusing at first." Read more...
Iqbal Mashih was a Pakistani child-laborer in a carpet factory. Hadijatou Mani was a Nigerian slave. Simon Deng was a child soldier in Sudan's Arab militia. Somaly Mam was a Cambodian brothel-worker and Given Kachepa was sold into slavery in the United States after moving from Zambia with a child choir.
Each one of these former slaves has their own grave story. However, instead of being released and seeking a life of quiet-comfort after so many years of abuse, these people have become activists, hoping to rid the world of such evils and improve the quality of life for others. Read more...
The parking lot where my car sits while I'm at work every day is frequented by several homeless people. I used to think I had great parking karma when I'd come in at close to 9am and still get a spot up against the building near the sidewalk. Then one day I arrived to find the real reason I was so lucky: at the head of one of these prime spots was a person sleeping. Some days there were two or even occasionally three people there. The days I got great parking weren't due to the "parking angels" at all; it was because someone had been sleeping there not too long before I pulled in.
After nine months of parking in this lot, I've grown accustomed to its nighttime tenants. But today, walking out of the lot, I saw something new. Hanging on the parking meter just 20 feet from where homeless people can often be found was a wool jacket. This in itself was enough to catch my eye, but when I saw the tag still on the jacket I had to take a closer look. The jacket was purchased from Goodwill for just under $10. Read more...
Ingida Asfaw came to the United States from Ethiopia on a cargo ship when he was sixteen. The two-week-journey was worth the wait. Today, Asfaw is a world-renowned surgeon based in Detroit. However, he always believed he would return to his homeland to improve the lives of his fellow Ethiopians. Read more...
The World Food Programme and local NGOs are helping Nepalese villagers grow herbs to supplement their incomes. Specifically, they are growing the chiretta plant, which is known for its medical qualities and can be exported for use in other South Asian countries like India. The herb is used to ward off fevers, skin diseases, intestinal worms, and bronchial asthma. It has also been used to heal burns, regulate the bowels and cure hiccups.
"The plant used to be plentiful in the nearby forests and we would pick it for our own consumption and to sell," said Sal Bahadur Rawal, supervisor of the nursery. It is a real income earner. While a kilo of millet costs 20 rupees (about 26 US cents), a kilo of chiretta costs 200 rupees (US$2.66), 10 times the amount. Read more...
Kraft Foods has been warming up bellies for generations with their warm, delicious dishes. Now, they are warming up bus stops in Chicago to promote their new Stove Top Quick Cups.
Kraft has posted ads in 50 bus shelters that say, "Cold, provided by winter. Warmth, provided by us". It's a good night for Stove Top." Kraft hopes that residents of Chicago will first enter the heated bus stops to enjoy shelter from the cold, and then decide that eating a Stove Top Quick Cup would be a good idea. Read more...
December 5th is International Volunteer Day, as designated by the United Nations beginning in 1985. The UN says the aim of this activity is to thank international volunteers for their efforts and increase public awareness of their contribution to society. International Volunteer Day is marked by many non-governmental organizations, including Red Cross, scouts and others. It is also marked and supported by United Nations Volunteers.
Organizations like Nabuur.com honored their volunteers. Nabuur is a website aimed at connecting people who want to make a difference all over the world from where they are. They explain that you do not have to travel abroad to be an international volunteer. Nabuur allows communities in need to sign up for the site. They then assign a volunteer facilitator who guides and coordinates efforts of volunteers all over the world. Read more...
A change of heart changes everything. Dat is het adagium van het Amerikaanse instituut HeartMath dat sinds 1991 wetenschappelijk onderzoek doet naar het hart en de vele, subtiele invloeden daarop. In ziekenhuizen, scholen, het Amerikaanse leger en in bedrijven wordt gewerkt met de HeartMath-methode. Die methode vergroot de focus, verbetert leerprestaties en maakt gezonder. En is bij wijze van spreken binnen vijf minuten te leren. Ode schreef er drie jaar geleden uitgebreid over. nl.odemagazine.com/doc/0077/Een-verandering-in-je-hart-verandert-alles Read more...
Bont voor Dieren heeft de internetverkiezing Cool vs Cruel 2008 gelanceerd. Via de website http://www.bontvoordieren.nl kan iedereen stemmen wie Dom Bontje en Coole Bontgenoot 2008 worden. Read more...
Het duurzaam inrichten van een wagenpark kan werkgevers duizenden euros per jaar opleveren. De gemiddelde leaserijder bespaart al 2300 euro per jaar als hij een dag in de week thuis werkt. Read mor