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In The News
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 Nobel
Peace Prize for Wangari Maathai
Wangari Maathai has become the first African woman to be awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize. Best known as the founder of the Green Belt
Movement which inspired Kenyan women to plant 30 million trees,
Wangari was elected to Parliament last year and is now Assistant
Minister of Environment.
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 Bianca
Jagger receives Alternative Nobel Prize.
Bianca Jagger has been awarded the 2004 Right Livelihood Award of
£150,000 which she shares with Argentinian scientist Raśl Montenegro
and a Russian organisation, Memorial. This year's Awards highlight
Human, Social, and Environmental Rights Worldwide. The Honorary
Award goes to Swami Agnivesh, a leading Hindu social reformer, and
Asghar Ali Engineer, a prominent Muslim scholar.
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Ryan's Well Inspirational Young Boy Continues His
Journey In Helping Communities In Africa To Get Clean Water.
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 The
Power of Love "When humans truly discover the power of
love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire."
Teilhard de Chardin
Boudewijn Wegerif was a remarkable man. He first came to the
notice of Positive News when we reported his magnificent two and a
half year walk from Sweden to South Africa to high-light the
iniquities of the debt-based money system.
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 Report Shows That Values Work
by Frances Farrer
A recently published report, Values Education: developing positive
attitudes, concluded that Values Education 'has the great potential to
provide a structure and framework to help staff and children develop a
language and a way of discussing difficult, often unfamiliar, aspects of
moral education.
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 Values Education in EgyptThe seeds of Sathya Sai values have been planted in Egypt and are
already being sown in partnership with charity, Children of the Future
Foundation. The Foundation, whose work includes renovating old, run-down
government schools, made a request for five days Sathya Sai Education in
Human Values (SSEHV) training in Egypt, a teaching programme designed to
help children understand the importance of human values in
education.
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 Kids Get HIPP to Peace
by Elizabeth Grindey
Hong Kong is becoming a more peaceful place than it was two years
ago. A growing circle of school kids, teachers and local residents are
learning the skills of peacemaking, inspired by the work of the
Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP).
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Overseas editions in New York and Hong
Kong News and information regarding the ongoing efforts of
spreading the Positive News. For Full Article, Click Here:
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 Taxi!
If you hail a taxi in London you might be in for an unexpectedly
quiet ride that is if you are lucky enough to get the first new
Diesel Electric Hybrid.
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Whales Reprieve Anti-whaling nations led by Australia and New Zealand have seen
off another attempt to make commercial whaling legal again at the
annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Italy.
Special permits are granted for 'scientific purposes' to whaling
countries notably Japan, Norway and Iceland, which were pushing for
a proposal to open the way to commercial whaling in coastal waters.
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 Guest Editorial
Happiness is our basic state of
being according to psychologist, Robert Holden, founder of The
Happiness Project.
Traditional psychology focuses on what is wrong with people. The
Happiness Project encourages people to find their inner happiness.
Quoting Carl Jung, he said, "Most people suffer not from physical
illness but from spiritual aimlessness. They have lost sight of who
they really are and what is really valuable". That's not really
surprising in this day and age, says Robert, when every year, in
western culture, the average adult is exposed to over a hundred
thousand advertisements telling us what we should truly value.
Our job, as friends of the world, is to distinguish between
desire and truth.
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Global Resources
Websites devoted to Positive Planetary Transformation
Environment & Ecology
International Dolphin Watch
www.idw.org
A charity dedicated to the care and study of Dolphins. IDW is
involved in research, conservation, education, dolphin healing, and many
other issues relating to dolphins across the globe. Online shop offers
dolphin related products to help support the work of IDW including Dilo
books written by the founder, Horace Dobbs.
Earth Action
www.earthaction.org
EarthAction's goal is to mobilize growing numbers of people around the
world to press their governments (or sometimes corporations) for
stronger action to solve global problems. EarthAction's strategy is to
create a global action alert network a kind of Amnesty International
for the planet made up of individuals, groups and legislators who are
prepared to act together on global problems. We devote particular
attention to the challenge of building a more democratic and effective
UN system to help solve those problems.
Centre for Alternative Technology
www.cat.org.uk
CAT is concerned with the search for globally sustainable, whole and
ecologically sound technologies and ways of life. Within this search the
role of CAT is to explore and demonstrate a wide range of alternatives,
communicating to other people the options for them to achieve positive
change in their own lives. CAT is an environmental charity aiming to
'inspire, inform, and enable' people to live more sustainably. A
solutions driven organisation, offering practical solutions to
environmental problems, our key areas of work are renewable energy,
environmental building, energy efficiency, organic growing and
alternative sewage systems. We have been in existence for 25 years.
Centre for Sustainable Energy
www.cse.org.uk
CSE seeks sustainable energy solutions that engage people and
communities to meet real needs for both environmentally sound and
affordable energy services. We work with individuals and organisations
from public, private and voluntary sectors on a wide range of
initiatives at local, regional and national level.
Centre for Ecoliteracy
www.ecoliteracy.org
The Center for Ecoliteracy was founded in 1995 by Fritjof Capra,
Peter Buckley and Zenobia Barlow. The Center for Ecoliteracy is a public
foundation that supports a grant making program for educational
organizations and school communities in the Bay Area California,
convenes networks of its grantees, sponsors projects consistent with its
mission, administers donor advised funds, and manages a publishing
imprint.
(The above resources are provided
as public a service. GVNR has not researched nor does it endorse any
products or services listed in the Resource section. Readers are advised
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