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Can There Be “Good” Corporations?
Yes! Magazine 
May 1st, 2012
When companies are owned by workers and the community—instead of Wall Street financiers—everything changes.
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Good
April 24th, 2012
Had Willy Wonka had been fascinated by industrial ecology instead of cocoa beans, his factory may have looked something like The Plant, Chicago’s first entirely self-sustaining “vertical farm.”
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Greater Good
April 16th, 2012
Jonah Lehrer’s new book shows that creativity is not a single gift possessed by the lucky few. It’s a variety of distinct thought processes that we can all learn to use more effectively.
Read More (+4 rating) Loading ...Choose Happiness: 5 Ways To Get Out Of a Funk
High Existence
April 13th, 2012
Our mind is the most powerful tool we have at our disposal. It can create beautiful things, spread joy, and change the world. But it can also create much suffering in our own life. It’s up to us to decide how we use it.
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Positive News
April 12th, 2012
There is something therapeutic about spending time outdoors and practitioners of wilderness therapy place this at the very heart of their work.
Read More (+4 rating) Loading ...Living Green: Smaller Farms Finding New Economic Foothold In Agriculture World
PJ Star
April 27th, 2012
For the Brockman family, agriculture is a sustainable way of life grown on smaller acres than the typical mass producer of corn and soybeans. The family plants hundreds of vegetables, fruits and herbs on the kind of farm that, 15 to 20 years ago, was about as common to find as a local community college student rushing off to operate a farm.
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Huffington Post
April 18th, 2012
Buying organic is a powerful change-making action, but it’s also a relatively easy one. You put the organic food in your cart, hand over the cash, and head home with a bag full of food you can feel good about. Defending your choice to support organic can sometimes be a little trickier.
Read More (+4 rating) Loading ...Turn Right For Enlightenment
Ode Magazine
April 13th, 2012
For Roy Martina, the quickest way to health and happiness is to connect the right brain with higher consciousness—with a little help from hypnosis.
Read More (+6 rating) Loading ...How Biking Benefits Everyone
Yes! Magazine
April 12th, 2012
Just because someone doesn’t bike, doesn’t mean they can’t benefit from cities and towns making biking a priority.
Read More (+5 rating) Loading ...Ancient Civilizations Reveal Ways to Manage Fisheries for Sustainability
Science Daily
April 10th, 2012
In the search for sustainability of the ocean’s fisheries, solutions can be found in a surprising place: the ancient past.
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