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Happiness Linked To Longer Life
Health.com
November 4th, 2011
Being happy doesn’t just improve the quality of your life. According to a new study, it may increase the quantity of your life as well.
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Ecolutionist 
May 5th, 2011
It is never too early to educate and empower future environmentalists — and writer, educator, cartoonist, Denis Thomopoulos, is leading the way with his latest creation, Simon Says, “Let’s Stop Climate Change!” His work is attracting attention from the likes of author Mark Herstgaard and he has been featured at the Green Festival as it travels around the country.
Read More (+8 rating) Loading ...Seth Godin on the tribes we lead
Ted
April 18th, 2011
Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change. He urges us to do so.
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Eco Women 
March 1st, 2011
Three years ago today, the Eco Women entered the blogosphere. Then, as now, their mission is to help people find easy ways to live a more environmentally friendly life.
Read More (+6 rating) Loading ...Did you hear the one about the Iranian-American?
TED
August 25th, 2010
A founding member of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour, standup comic Maz Jobrani riffs on the challenges and conflicts of being Iranian-American — “like, part of me thinks I should have a nuclear program; the other part thinks I can’t be trusted …”
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(+24 rating) Loading ...City Cycle- a pedal-powered pub
Bicycle Design
May 23rd, 2011
What happens when you ask a rocket scientist to build a bicycle? Well…apparently, you get the City Cycle, which at first glance looks like a cross between the Hopsworksfiets beer bike and a city bus.
Read More (+2 rating) Loading ...“Beyond Coal” Underwear Line & Underwear Activism
Planet Save
April 20th, 2011
This Earth Day, the Sierra Club and underwear company PACT have teamed up to fight coal-powered campuses with college student activism… in underwear, of course.
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YouTube
March 25th, 2011
A “flashmob” in Quebec addresses the issue of recycling and an entertaining way. A video that you have to see.
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(+11 rating) Loading ...Nothing Says “Good Cause” Like Remote Controlled Poop
Gizmodo
September 14th, 2010
If you’re trying to raise awareness for a cause—especially if that cause is providing toilets for the 2.6 billion people in the world who don’t have one—there are worse places to start than piloting an RC-turd.
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TED
August 23rd, 2010
Jamil Abu-Wardeh jump-started the comedy scene in the Arab world by founding the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour, which brings standup comedians to laughing audiences all over the Middle East. He’s found that, by avoiding the “three B’s” (blue material, beliefs and “bolitics”), the Axis of Evil comics find plenty of cross-border laughs.
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