How Main St. Beats Wall St.
According to the Independent Community Bankers of America, “Community banks channel most of their loans to the neighborhoods where their depositors live and work, helping to keep local communities vibrant and growing.”
Holistic Living articles:
Terry Cole-Whittaker’s Direct Route to Bliss
We don’t have to pursue happiness, we just have to be who we are.
Borrow a New Perspective
What makes you afraid? What pushes your buttons? What are your biases and why do you have them? The Human Library, a global project designed to reduce prejudice and stereotypes, works like a regular library except human beings (living books) are “checked out” with the aim of breaking down social misconceptions and forging contacts between […]
WriteGirl Mentors Aspiring Young Writers
L.A.-based WriteGirl offers writing skills, confidence and possibilities.
Celebrating Women
Create your own map for success
Women make up slightly more than 50 percent of the U.S. population and have given birth to 100 percent of it, so what’s the deal? Only about 15 percent of Fortune 500 companies have women on their boards of directors, and although women have seen more parity in wages for the same jobs in the past few years, at this rate it will be 2050 before their compensation is equal to men’s.
Pronoia
Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings (North Atlantic Books) is astrologer Rob Brezsny’s revised and expanded edition of his earlier cult classic. In it, he proposes 888 tricks for a blissful life.
Sustainable Romance
Valentine’s gifts that also love the earth
Bye Bye Plastic Bottles
Japanese researcher Masaru Emoto claims that if words or thoughts are directed at water droplets, they can change the quality of the water enough to make frozen crystals more or less lovely. So then, why not send positive messages to every drop you drink? Be Truly You’s glass water bottles are imprinted with words like […]
Lather with Love
The lovely mother-daughter team of Donna and Lauren hand-milks French Alpine goats (who have names like Sugar, Muffin and Precious) on their small farm in Ventura to produce creamy, aromatic soaps that will perk up a shower and inspire longing for a lingering bath. Fair Trade shea butter adds moisture, and fragrances are all natural […]
Peace in the New Year
Share your passion for peace with someone you love. Made in Los Angeles of recycled silver, this stunning jewelry comes in a recycled box with a peace seal hand stamped on each box and an organic cotton storage pouch. PeaceLoveEarth.com. . . . . . . . . . .