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3BL Media Launches 3bl.me URL Shortener to Support Charities and Raise Awareness of the "Triple Bottom Line" Approach for Business

3BL Media, the experts in corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability and cause marketing communications, today announced that it has launched 3bl.me, the company’s cause-based URL shortener. For each URL shortened via 3bl.me, 3BL Media will make a donation to worthwhile organizations, with initial recipients including Volunteermatch, Sweatfree Communities, and World Wildlife Fund UK. Additional charities and causes will be identified on a monthly basis via “crowd-sourcing” for… Continue

Added by 3BL Media on December 15, 2009 at 7:53pm — No Comments

20 Easy Things You Can Do TODAY to Save $$, Reduce Waste and Stop Climate Change

20 Easy Things You Can Do

Ok, cancel that expensive, high carbon trip to Copenhagen - you can do a lot to save money, energy, and reverse climate change right from home. In our ongoing effort to bring you positive steps that you can take in your daily life to conserve, eliminate waste or turn it into resources, here are our Top 20 Waste and Money Saving Steps you can take to reverse climate change. We culled these from a larger list of 50 simple things that everyone can do to reduce… Continue

Added by 3BL Media on December 15, 2009 at 6:37pm — No Comments

Tuesday: Breaking Down the Moon...

As the Moon chases the Sun in Sagittarius she begins to feel the incendiary effects of Sol’s inferno. Later tonight the two will marry once again and the heat of their passion will propel the Queen of the Night into Capricorn, where she’ll flirt with hoary Pluto and wink at youthful Mercury on her journey back around the wheel.

This is the time of disintegration, Dear Pilgrim... nothing should be initiated while the Silvery Goddess becomes the Phoenix. Dross and the past will ignite… Continue

Added by Chris Anderson/Onefeather on December 15, 2009 at 1:12pm — No Comments

Spirituality

Since our Solar System has evolved into the Age of Aquarius, we have been given several gifts. The evolution of the Solar System has taken on a Physical Movement. We have moved into a new place around our Galactic Sun. Just as our Earth revolves around our Sun, our Solar System revolves around our Galactic Sun.

Just as man individually and collectively is evolving, our Solar System is evolving. It too has a destiny and purpose in the Mind of God.

The gifts that this… Continue

Added by GlobalNomad on December 14, 2009 at 12:30am — No Comments

Spontaneous Healing of Belief

What would it mean to discover that everything from the DNA of life, to the future of our world, is based upon a simple Reality Code—one that we can change and upgrade by choice? New revelations in physics and biology suggest that we're about to find out!

A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that our universe works like a Consciousness Computer. Rather than the number codes of typical software, our Consciousness Computer uses a language that we all have, yet are only… Continue

Added by GlobalNomad on December 14, 2009 at 12:20am — No Comments

Visible Light Solar Announces Expanded Management Team and New Manufacturing Headquarters

Visible Light Solar Technologies, a LED/solar lighting technology innovator, today announced the appointment of four new executives and expansion into a new 32,000-square-foot US manufacturing headquarters. Founded by the venture accelerator Noribachi in 2008 and launched in the summer of 2009, Visible Light Solar is experiencing rapid growth; the company recently announced three new product lines, a national authorized distributor network, and increased sales of its LED/solar commercial and… Continue

Added by 3BL Media on December 11, 2009 at 6:35pm — No Comments

Making Winter Hot with Eco-Knits

From Gawky Green of Two Girls Go Green

I’m sitting in Starbucks. It’s snowing. It’s Michigan and it’s December, so I guess I am not that surprised. But that doesn’t negate the fact that I am cold. And one [of the many] thing(s) I hate about cold weather is that it leaves my fashion wardrobe limited. Not only do I lack motivation to dress any way but comfy, there are only so many variations of long sleeves, long pants and boots.

Alas, this is why I appreciate fashion… Continue

Added by 3BL Media on December 11, 2009 at 6:32pm — No Comments

A Visit to Cairo's City of the Dead

Cairo’s infamous “City of the Dead” is a centuries old cemetery that has become home to as many as a million Egyptians during the last decades. The buildings in the cemetery are like full-blown houses and the cemetery has long had mosques, school and markets. “The historic belief in Egypt is that the cemeteries are an active part of the community and not exclusively for the dead. Egyptians have not so much thought of cemeteries as a place of the dead, but rather a place where life… Continue

Added by Greg Roach on December 10, 2009 at 5:29pm — No Comments

The Non-violent Approach Strengthens Those Committed to It

WORD FOR THE DAY (gratefulness.org)
Thursday, Dec. 10

The nonviolent approach does
not immediately change the heart
of the oppressor. It first does
something to the hearts and
souls of those committed to it.
It gives them new self-respect;
it calls up resources of strength
and courage they did not know they had.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Added by Ron Alexander on December 10, 2009 at 12:13pm — No Comments

Rainbow Dreaming @ Byron's 4th Annual Beggars Banquet

The Rainbow Dreaming exhibit, just returned

from a tour of USA, attracted an appreciative audience @ Byron's 4th Annual Beggars Banquet, on Sat 5 Dec, Railway Park.

Hundreds of patrons, supporters, donors and some contributors got to see the exhibit for the first time.

Co-curator Harsha said:... " We were under the impression locals would be blase about the stories from the rainbow region. We were pleasantly surprised by the response, especially from young punters. Clearly, this… Continue

Added by Harsha Prabhu on December 10, 2009 at 3:31am — No Comments

Weekly Tidbit: Forgiving Resentments

One of my clients died this year, after a long illness as they say. During our time of work together we frequently had conversations about forgiveness. She had carried strong resentments towards a particular family member and believed that she was entitled to her resentments because this person had behaved badly many times. What she had trouble understanding was that she was compounding the injury to herself by carrying anger and hatred towards him. He wasn't suffering from it; she was. And… Continue

Added by Charly Hill on December 9, 2009 at 6:26pm — No Comments

60 Minutes Exposes Devastation of Mining in Congo

Here is the link to the 60 Minutes segment (on CBS) about the fact that gold from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is funding one of the most horrifying wars in history.

PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO!

“When there are spikes in violence, it has something to do with contestation over the mineral resources…gold and the rest of them.”

You can have beautiful gold jewelry without supporting violence. Contact C5 company to learn more.

Added by 3BL Media on December 9, 2009 at 4:22pm — No Comments

Compost

I came across this journal entry which I wrote a while back at Green Gulch – an organic farm which is one of the three San Francisco Zen Center venues. I thought I’d like to share it with you because it portrays (in a really tiny way) the opportunities we are offered all the time as to how we choose to interpret the bigger things which challenge us:

Hosing out the compost buckets at GGF.

Eggshells, coffee grounds and oatmeal

are flying into my face and hair.

But… Continue

Added by Michael Scott on December 9, 2009 at 1:46pm — No Comments

Excited about tonight...

We get to see the premier of the video our family was in which was made by students from the University of Texas, Austin tonight! Will let you know name and crew as well as a review of all the fun!

Make it a great day for yourself and someone else!

Added by Amagi Al-Anzi on December 9, 2009 at 11:35am — No Comments

MidWeek Review of the Heavens....

http://www.soulgardencollective.tv/profiles/blogs/midweek-observations

Added by Chris Anderson/Onefeather on December 9, 2009 at 7:59am — No Comments

Yoko Ono On The Anniversary Of Her Husband's Death

AN AFFIRMATION FOR PLANET EARTH

Yoko Ono Lennon

December 8, 2009

On the anniversary of the passing of my husband, John Lennon,

I would like you to share an affirmation with me.

Think it, say it, with firm belief,

knowing that we are all one.

In the name of truth, peace and love:

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Our planet is healthy and whole,

We, the people of Earth

See clearly, Hear clearly, Think… Continue

Added by John DiStefano on December 8, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

Better CSR Reporting: Emphasize Outcomes

I’ve had lots of feedback from a post I wrote last week called How to Improve Your CSR Report.

One person observed that “the problem seems to be that to report you need to count things, yet much of what and organisation delivers into society cannot be measured this way.”

Even most non-profit organization report their social ROI based on number of people served, beds in hospitals, brochures distributed, etc. The real value of social organizations is not how many services… Continue

Added by 3BL Media on December 7, 2009 at 6:16pm — No Comments

Can Congress Make Progress?

The old joke goes: “If ‘pro’ is the opposite of ‘con’, then what’s the opposite of progress? Answer: Congress! “

That might be true often enough, but for Arizona 5th district Congressman Harry Mitchell that’s not the case. His district, which includes the Phoenix area, is leading by example. They’ve built a new, 20 mile light rail system in the past year, and here in the Valley of the Sun, a solar paradise, Congressman Mitchell is promoting solar energy. He asserts that cities can… Continue

Added by 3BL Media on December 7, 2009 at 4:33pm — No Comments

Reaching Your Boyle-ing Point

At an age when most performers have hit their peak and may already be on a downward spiral, one rising star has captivated the world — not only with her phenomenal voice, but with her story. Susan Boyle shot to stardom just before turning 48.

We generally groom our superstars as youth: usually a new name enters our consciousness when the performer is between 18-22, sometimes… Continue

Added by Amara Rose on December 7, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Time is priceless, yet it costs us nothing You can do anything with it, yet you can not own it. You can spend it, However you can not keep it. Once you have lost it there is no getting it back It is …

Time is priceless, yet it costs us nothing

You can do anything with it, yet you can not own it.

You can spend it,

However you can not keep it.

Once you have lost it there is no getting it back

It is just gone

Find more videos like this on I.S.…

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Added by Mr. Mike on December 5, 2009 at 9:37pm — No Comments