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Just Who Exactly Benefits Most From the Global Giving of Billionaires Like Bill Gates?
Just Who Exactly Benefits Most From the Global Giving of Billionaires Like Bill Gates?
Is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation promoting the interests of multinational corporations at the expense of social and economic justice?
Jon Queally
If You Want to Say Thank You, Don't Say Sorry - And 6 Other Examples of Beautiful Communication
If You Want to Say Thank You, Don't Say Sorry - And 6 Other Examples of Beautiful Communication
Appreciate others for what they have done. Don't apologize for simply existing.
Yao Xiao
Who Are You? Watching This Breathtaking Video Could Be the Moment You Change Your Life
Who Are You? Watching This Breathtaking Video Could Be the Moment You Change Your Life
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in...
2 min
France Passes Law Restricting Super-Thin Models and Airbrushing
France Passes Law Restricting Super-Thin Models and Airbrushing
France passes a new law that bans the use of "excessively skinny" models and puts regulations on airbrushed photos to promote better self-image in women and girls. Some critics in the fashion industry have criticized the law's ambiguous language.
1 min
15 Easy Things You Can Do to Help When You Feel Like Shit
15 Easy Things You Can Do to Help When You Feel Like Shit
You dont have to tackle it all at once.
Maritsa Patrinos
Do You Have Time to Love?
Do You Have Time to Love?
The greatest gift you can offer loved ones is your true presence.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Here's How Negative Thinking Is Changing Your Brain
Here's How Negative Thinking Is Changing Your Brain
If youve ever found yourself trapped in a seemingly endless loop of negative thinking, or wondered why you fixate on a stray rude comment but easily forget compliments, you mayhave a culprit to blame: evolution.
Kathleen Toohill
Rage, Fear, Sadness, Fatigue: The Yoga of Darkness
Rage, Fear, Sadness, Fatigue: The Yoga of Darkness
Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion. -Carl Jung
Return Yoga
Realize You Are the Earth
Realize You Are the Earth
We need a real awakening, enlightenment, to change our way of thinking and seeing things. To breathe in and be aware of your body and look deeply into it, realise you are the Earth and your consciousness is also the consciousness of the Earth.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Advice for the Budding Activist
Advice for the Budding Activist
It began in high schoolactually before thatbut my my first organizing effort was done senior year of high school. Speaking out against things that seemed unjust has always felt natural to me. I had this deep understanding of what I thought was fair or not fair, even when I...
Bulaong Ramiz
Ebola on the Ground
Ebola on the Ground
While Western media coverage of the Ebola crisis faded sometime in November, daily case counts in Sierra Leone continued to grow exponentially through the top of the new year. Okayafrica, teaming up with single-subject news site Ebola Deeply, arrived in Freetown on New Year's...
33 min
The Neglected Mass Shooter and His Need to Be Seen
The Neglected Mass Shooter and His Need to Be Seen
At a vigil to honor the victims of Sandy Hook, I read aloud the piece that Rabbi Lerner wrote on December 14th, 2012, entitled: Banning All Guns is Necessary but Not Sufficient, that we also need a fundamental transformation of consciousness both inner and societal. An...
Cheryl Hashman Sheinman
The Difference Between Hot Boredom and Cool Boredom
The Difference Between Hot Boredom and Cool Boredom
Hot boredom is like being locked in a padded cell. You are bored, miserable, and irritated. Cool boredom is quite spacious.
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Understanding Patriarchy
Understanding Patriarchy
Patriarchy is the single most life-threatening social disease assaulting the male body and spirit in our nation. Yet most men do not use the word patriarchy in everyday life. Most men never think about patriarchywhat it means, how it is created and sustained. Many men in our...
bell hooks
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: Mental Health
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: Mental Health
John Oliver explains how our national system of treating mental health works, or more often than not, how it doesn't.
12 min
If Fast Food Commercials Were Honest
If Fast Food Commercials Were Honest
Turns out the only thing grosser than the food is how the commercials are made.
3 min
In Praise of Self-Helpless
In Praise of Self-Helpless
The following is excerpted fromThe Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Pathby Jay Michaelson, published by Ben Yahuda Press. In the 1990s, a prominent teacher of whats called New Thoughta/k/a The Secret, the Law of Attraction, the Teachings of Abrahamtold a group of gay...
Jay Michaelson
Healing Our Collective Trauma: The Key to Creating a Society Based on Trust Rather Than Fear
Healing Our Collective Trauma: The Key to Creating a Society Based on Trust Rather Than Fear
Behind the crisis of our time hides the core crisis of human relationships.
Dieter Duhm
The Ecosexual Awakening
The Ecosexual Awakening
From the anthologyEcosexuality: When Nature Inspires the Arts of Love I hesitate to start an essay with definitions as if I could compelyou with force of logic to accept conclusions that follow irrefutably from premises. Nor would that be very sexy: an imposition rather than...
Charles Eisenstein
"I Love Being a Woman" - What Will It Take to Create a World Where Every Woman Can Say This?
"I Love Being a Woman" - What Will It Take to Create a World Where Every Woman Can Say This?
I am a woman. I am thankful for that, for I like being a woman. Already this statement, if spoken in full truth, requires a fundamental shift in the worldview of women, reconnecting them with their true and most beautiful sources.
Sabine Lichtenfels
Imagine The Most Beautiful Future: What Do You See?
Imagine The Most Beautiful Future: What Do You See?
"Trust is the basis on which life heals. There is no deeper vision than the vision of a world in which trust reigns between all beings."
5 min
Misogyny and the Healing of the Masculine
Misogyny and the Healing of the Masculine
My new home of West Asheville is in the news. A local coffee shop, Waking Life Espresso, closed its doors after its owners Jared Rutledge and Jacob Owens were outed for hosting a misogynistic blog. In addition to repulsive and degrading comments about women and details of...
Charles Eisenstein
Ola - Health Is Everything
Ola - Health Is Everything (2013)
A timely and emotional debut documentary that celebrates Hawaii's most cherished social values, Ola challenges us to rethink what it means to be healthy. Ola (Hawaiian for "life" or "well being") explores the widespread social factors that affect our ability to create...
69 min
An Indigenous Approach to Healing Trauma
An Indigenous Approach to Healing Trauma
The Healing Power of Listening in Stillness
Jonathan Davis
5 Difficult Situations Where 'Letting Go' Is the Best Decision You'll Ever Make
5 Difficult Situations Where 'Letting Go' Is the Best Decision You'll Ever Make
1. When the people you love hurt you
Yasmine Amin
Bill Nye: Can We Stop Telling Women What to Do With Their Bodies?
Bill Nye: Can We Stop Telling Women What to Do With Their Bodies?
The Science Guy argues that most anti-abortion legislation is derived from outdated beliefs that predate smart science by fifty centuries.
5 min
The True Source Of Greed
The True Source Of Greed
How much of the ugly does it take to substitute for a lack of the beautiful? How many adventure films does it take to compensate for a lack of adventure? How many superhero movies must one watch, to compensate for the atrophied expressionof ones greatness? How much...
Chris Agnos
Ocean of Plastic (Do You Think That Marine Pollution Does Not Affect You? Think Again.)
Ocean of Plastic (Do You Think That Marine Pollution Does Not Affect You? Think Again.)
This short film which shows you an extremely important reason why you should take marine pollution seriously.
3 min
Ex-hedge Funder Buys Rights to Life-Saving Drug and Raises Price from $13.50 to $750 per pill
Ex-hedge Funder Buys Rights to Life-Saving Drug and Raises Price from $13.50 to $750 per pill
A former hedge fund manager turned pharmaceutical businessman has purchased the rights to a 62-year-old drug used for treating life-threatening parasitic infections and raised the price overnight from $13.50 per tablet to $750. According
Tom Boggioni
5 Questions to Ask Yourself If You Think Your Partner Is Toxic
5 Questions to Ask Yourself If You Think Your Partner Is Toxic
Despite it all, I loved him and that love was not enough. How can you tell if your partner is healthy for you? Here's some guidance that can help.
Melissa A. Fabello
Judge Less, Accept More, and Restore Your Happiness
Judge Less, Accept More, and Restore Your Happiness
Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest. ~Sri Chinmoy
Patricia Tashiro
Ten Films You Need to Watch About The Reality Of The World's Indigenous Peoples
Ten Films You Need to Watch About The Reality Of The World's Indigenous Peoples
Films that show the complex reality of indigenous health and well-being.
John Ahni Schertow
Greed Dies Hard in a Poisoned Land
Greed Dies Hard in a Poisoned Land
When Arizona Sen. John McCain met with the Navajo Nations tribal government earlier this monthat their capital in Window Rock, Arizona, after arriving in a big black SUV, he believed he would be spending the day observing the commemoration of Code Talkers Day. This was not...
William Rivers Pitt
The Man Box and the Cult of Masculinity
The Man Box and the Cult of Masculinity
Rule 1: There is no man box.
Derrick Jensen
Transgender Healthcare Equality
Transgender Healthcare Equality
Transgender healthcare access is crucial for trans people to live and be themselves, but trans people are frequently marginalized in so many ways, including equal access to healthcare. This film covers the current issues faced by trans people in the US. Please watch, like...
6 min
Worried Your Partner Is Emotionally Abusive? Check Out These 7 Warning Signs
Worried Your Partner Is Emotionally Abusive? Check Out These 7 Warning Signs
Theres a misconception that abusive partners always use physical violence, which can make it hard to tell if your partners abusive.
Emma Rust
Cure Your Ailments and Be in a Good Mood for No Reason with Nature Rx
Cure Your Ailments and Be in a Good Mood for No Reason with Nature Rx
Set in the world of a spoofed prescription drug commercial, Nature Rx offers a hearty dose of laughs and the outdoors - two timeless prescriptions for whatever ails you. Side effects may include confidence, authenticity, remembering you have a body, and being in a good mood...
2 min
Inside Her Sex: Where Shame And Sexuality Collide
Inside Her Sex: Where Shame And Sexuality Collide (trailer)
While we live in a highly sexualized society, the messaging around female sexuality is distorted and rife with shame. What women should look like, who women should want, what women should desire...in fact, who women should be, is dictated to us from screens and pages and people.
3 min
Are Hospital Farms the Next Big Thing in Healthcare Reform?
Are Hospital Farms the Next Big Thing in Healthcare Reform?
This summer, St. Lukes Hospital started sending all new moms home from the hospital with a basket of fresh produce, recipes and literature about the importance of a healthy diet. All of the produce in the basket was grown on an organic farm on the hospitals Anderson campus...
Jodi Helmer
Got First World Problems? This Might Help
Got First World Problems? This Might Help
A pop-up shop selling placebo pills for first-world problems just opened its doors in Amsterdam on June 7th. A Netherlands-based fund created the campaign to raise money for very real problems facing millions who cannot access AIDS medications.
1 min
Red Path
Red Path
"Red Path premiered at the Unmentionables Film Festival in New York, a festival dedicated to breaking taboos and this first year the taboo was menstruation. I truly believe
7 min
How Does Addiction Relate to Our Relationship to the Living World?
How Does Addiction Relate to Our Relationship to the Living World?
The recently published piece titled The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think' gave me a lot of food for thought for how we relate to the phenomena of addiction, and how society goes about treating it. As a budding cultural ecologist and...
Sarah Levine
Stupidity and Intelligence: Science, GMOs and Our Food
Stupidity and Intelligence: Science, GMOs and Our Food
How industrial-scale farming is actually becoming anti-science.
Vandana Shiva
10 Ways Truly Happy Couples Argue Differently
10 Ways Truly Happy Couples Argue Differently
1. They arent going to just throw down. Instead, theyre committed to helping one another overcome problems and conflicts. Simply being mad at the person wont resolve anything. 2. They focus on the problem, not its embodiment. They keep in mind that a relationship is sort...
Higher Perspective
Of Mindfulness, Meditation and Other Aliases
Of Mindfulness, Meditation and Other Aliases
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti
Rishi Miranhshah
A Simple Guide to 10 Personal Care Products You Can Make at Home
A Simple Guide to 10 Personal Care Products You Can Make at Home
You can make everything from Deodorant to Sunscreen using Coconut Oil as the main ingredient. We have compiled ten different recipes in this Infographic as a guide for homemade personal care products.
Health Perch
We Need a Revolution; It Starts with Falling in Love with Earth
We Need a Revolution; It Starts with Falling in Love with Earth
This beautiful, bounteous, life-giving planet we call Earth has given birth to each one of us, and each one of us carries the Earth within every cell of our body.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Audacious Mic Takeover by “Millionaires for Wealthcare” Present Award to Senator at Republican Event
Audacious Mic Takeover by “Millionaires for Wealthcare” Present Award to Senator at Republican Event
Perhaps you recallRepublican state Senator Todd Gardenhire (R-Tenn.), apparently unfamiliar with camera phones, getting caught on filmcallingan uninsured activist in Tennessee an a-hole.Gardenhire had
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Nature Therapy: Forestry with Natural Sounds
Nature Therapy: Forestry with Natural Sounds
Nature Therapy is a video project to bring the serenity of the natural world into the home or healing environment to provide a more tranquil experience.
30 min
7 Ways to Support Friends When They're Mentally Unwell
7 Ways to Support Friends When They're Mentally Unwell
Most of us will experience a mental health difficulty like depression, anxiety or addiction during our lives. And at some point, most of us will have a friend or family member who is mentally unwell.
Meg John Barker
Our Addiction to Control Is Enslaving Us
Our Addiction to Control Is Enslaving Us
Is there a belief about the Universe or about ourselves that causes all of the conflict in the world?
Chris Agnos
The Science Of Why You Should Spend Your Money On Experiences, Not Things
The Science Of Why You Should Spend Your Money On Experiences, Not Things
You don't have infinite money. Spend it on stuff that research says makes you happy.
Jay Cassano
Five Reasons Why You Never Want to Be rich
Five Reasons Why You Never Want to Be rich
If youre suffering from affluenza its time to recognize that youre sick.
Darrin Drda
Our Culture's Unhealthy Ideas Surrounding Masculinity Is Killing Men: On The Roots of Men and Trauma
Our Culture's Unhealthy Ideas Surrounding Masculinity Is Killing Men: On The Roots of Men and Trauma
The three most destructive words that every man receives when hes a boy is when hes told to 'be a man,' Joe Ehrmann,coach and former NFL player If we are honest with ourselves, we have long known that masculinity kills men, in ways both myriad and measurable. While social...
Kali Holloway
How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti ­and Built Six Homes
How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti ­and Built Six Homes
Even as the group has publicly celebrated its work, insider accounts detail a string of failures
Justin Elliott and Laura Sullivan
Seven Sins of Our System of Forced Education
Seven Sins of Our System of Forced Education
Sometimes I find, no matter how uncomfortable it makes me and others feel, I have to speak the truth. We can use all the euphemisms we want, but the literal truth is that schools, as they generally exist in the United States and other modern countries, are prisons. Human...
Peter Gray, Ph.D.
GMO OMG
GMO OMG (2014) ($3)
GMO OMGdirector and concerned father Jeremy Seifert is in search of answers. How do GMOs affect our children, the health of our planet, and our freedom of choice? And perhaps the ultimate question, which Seifert tests himself: is it even possible to reject the food system...
84 min
The More a Society Coerces Its People, the Greater the Chance of Mental Illness
The More a Society Coerces Its People, the Greater the Chance of Mental Illness
Throughout history, societies have existed with far less coercion than ours. While these societies have had far fewer consumer goods and less of what modernity calls efficiency, they also have had far less mental illness. This reality has been buried, not surprisingly, by...
Bruce E. Levine
Under the Dome: Investigating China’s Smog
Under the Dome: Investigating China’s Smog (2015)
A controversial film by celebrity journalist Chai Jing investigating China's air pollution problems.Chai Jing started making the documentary when her as yet unborn daughter developed a tumor in the womb, which had to be removed very soon after her birth. Chai blames air...
104 min
Cursed by Coal: Mining the Navajo Nation
Cursed by Coal: Mining the Navajo Nation
There's a resource curse on the Navajo Nation. The 27,000-square-mile reservation straddling parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah has an extremely high abundance of many energy resources particularly coal. That coal is what's burned to provide much of the Southwest with...
13 min