Jul 24, 2012 | buy positively, Musings
This week, avaaz.org surpassed 15 million members worldwide. This is huge. Avaaz shifts global political policy and stands up to make the voices of the unheard and oppressed heard loud and clear. They leverage the power of the web and social media to effect real...
Jul 20, 2012 | buy positively, Musings
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIQdYXCKUv0] The Story of Change is the second chapter of Annie Leonard’s Story of Stuff Project. In the first chapter, Annie eloquently pulls together years of research to highlight the destructiveness of society’s...
Jul 2, 2012 | buy positively, Musings
When you go to the grocery store and buy a packaged product that says its organic, it makes you feel good right? We’re told organic products are better for our health and our planet’s well-being and all this does have some substance. What lacks in...
Feb 13, 2012 | buy positively, Musings
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oftICP0JQw8?rel=0] After not feeling right about declining to give money to a homeless man on the subway, Sasha Dichter started a generosity experiment. According to Sasha: For a period of time, when I’m asked to give, [I must]...
Jan 12, 2012 | buy positively, Musings
This year, I want to focus on living a balanced life. We live in a weird, fast-changing world dominated by a culture of mass consumption and scale. Society is telling us to focus on the wrong things and as a result we’re wasting away our world and we don’t...
