Monday, November 22, 2010

Institute of HeartMath Feeds Food for Thought with Science of Thanksgiving Gratitude

http://www.heartmath.org/templates/ihm/e-content/broadcasts/general/2010/thanksgiving/ihm-feeds-food-for-thought-online.php

"According to research at IHM, true feelings of gratitude, appreciation and other positive emotions can synchronize brain and heart rhythms, creating a bodywide shift to a scientifically measurable state called coherence. In this optimal state, the body’s systems function more efficiently, generating a greater balance of emotions and increased mental clarity and brain function."

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Rockefeller Remarks on Television Viewers, Retransmission Consent, and the Public Interest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHo5eovdMRI&feature=player_embedded

‎"When it comes to developing content, our entertainment machine is too often in a race to the bottom. In fact, it is in a race to the bottom. Getting close. Even worse, our news media has all but surrendered to the forces of entertainment. And much of our news media is entertainment as opposed to news. Instead of a wat...chdog that is a check on the excesses of government and business, we have the endless barking of a 24-hour news cycle. We have journalism that is always ravenous for the next rumor, but insufficiently hungry for the facts that can nourish something called our democracy. As citizens, we are paying one heck of a price in the dumbing down of America. You're probably responsible for that." Senator Jay Rockefeller

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Advice for Water Warriors

http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/advice-for-water-warriors?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=socmed&utm_content=BarlowM_WaterWarriors&utm_campaign=111010_Planet

by Maude Barlow

"I deeply believe it is time for us to extend these powerful new movements, which fuse the analysis and hard work of the environmental community with the vision and commitment of the justice community, into a whole new form of governance that not only challenges the current model of unlimited growth and economic globalization but promotes an alternative that will allow us and the Earth to survive."