You don’t have to find a job cleaning the ocean, ripping dolphins out of fishing nets with your bare hands or throwing barrels of toxic waste into space to make a difference through your occupation. In fact, a simple a change as changing how you work makes a world of difference. Depending on what you [...]
We’ve been hearing about the death of print media for years. Magazines and newspapers are finding it more and more difficult to survive in a mostly electronic world and while sales in books has remained largely the same (although some studies have shown steady growth for many retailers but that could be attributed to Barnes [...]
On a recent episode of the popular internet series Diggnation, they mentioned a teenager in Ontario decomposing a plastic bag over a period of three months. If you’re not sure why this is a breakthrough, plastic bags regularly take up to a thousand years to break down.
Daniel Burd, a 16-year old student at Waterloo Collegiate [...]
I wrote an article for citruspie last october on the subject of the Canadian government promoting asbestos and selling it to chinese drywall companies… you can see my article by going to this link. http://citruspie.com/uncategorized/exporting-asbestos-good-business-for-canada/. I wrote that the Canadian government has spent millions of dollars to help promote the sale of asbestos to china. Maybe that [...]
It’s a shame that one small group of idiots ruin it for so many other people. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, Critical Mass is basically an organized group bike ride to encourage people to get out of their cars and ride their bike instead. They do so by clogging up the city’s [...]
I literally thought I landed on the moon when I flew into Leh, Northern India. Ladakh is situated at a height of 3505 meters and is towards the eastern parts of Jammu and Kashmir. Ladakh is a cold desert laying in the rain shadow of the Great Himalayas and other smaller ranges. Little rain and snow reaches [...]
The weather is beginning to get unbearably hot as we delve deeper into the summer months of the year. Actually, it was getting too hot for me weeks ago despite the fact that I live in a relatively neutral climate here in Vancouver. The high 20s begin to turn my place a greenhouse. Some might [...]
This is a guest post by Dr. Henryk Skolimowski
Spirituality is a sublime subject. Great minds and souls have reflected on it and left behind many illuminating insights. Yet we need to reflect on it again, if only because we wish to prove that we are spirituality alive. Our circumstances and problems are unprecedented and they [...]
I did some research before I left home on what different ashrams provided. There are many and some provide only a safe, low cost hostel environment while other provide a place for deep reflection. I decided on Aurovalley because of the 2 main evolutionary founders; Sri Aurobindo and “The Mother”. They wrote countless books on how [...]
This is a guest article by Andreas Moritz
The widespread economic crisis and political/social uncertainty we are currently experiencing seem to threaten our very survival on this planet. However, any attempt to fix the symptoms of our crumbling economy, our sickness industry, and our own lack of worthiness and security merely prolongs the hardship and, in [...]
