How Nature Affects the Brain

Saturday, August 27, 2011

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How Nature Affects the Brain

The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain -- the hardest and most iron-bound as well.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903 -

How Nature Affects the Brain

"For the first time in three days in the wilderness, Todd Braver is not wearing his watch. "I forgot," he says. It is a small thing, the kind of change many vacationers notice in themselves as they unwind and lose track of time. But for Braver and his companions, these moments lead to a question: What is happening to our brains? Braver, a psychology professor at Washington University in St. Louis, was one of five neuroscientists on an unusual journey. They spent a week in late May in this remote area of southern Utah, rafting the San Juan River, camping on the soft banks and hiking the tributary canyons. It was a primitive trip with a sophisticated goal: to understand how heavy use of digital devices and other technology changes how we think and behave, and how a retreat into nature might reverse those effects." { read more }

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A Morning When Everything Fell Into Place

Friday, August 26, 2011

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A Morning When Everything Fell Into Place

We must not cease from exploration; the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.

- T. S. Eliot -

A Morning When Everything Fell Into Place

"I finally found a Motel 6 about twenty-five miles east. When I got there around 11pm, from the cars and people I saw -- it was still warm outside, maybe 85 degrees -- I got the impression I was deep in gang territory. A young couple checking in at the office counter ahead of me added to this impression. I was nervous and felt out of place, but ended up getting a good night's sleep. In the morning, as I was carrying my bags to the car, there was a young man standing in the parking lot. I glanced at him and after a few more steps looked at him again. 'Good morning,' he said. 'Good morning,' I responded. And then, continuing to look at me with his smile, he said, 'Have a blessed day.'" So starts an extraordinary everyday story. { read more }

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The Inner Landscape of Beauty

Thursday, August 25, 2011

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The Inner Landscape of Beauty

Your identity is not equivalent to your biography. There is a place in you where you have never been wounded, where there's a seamlessness in you, and where there is a confidence and tranquility.

- John O'Donohue -

The Inner Landscape of Beauty

For the late Celtic mystic John O'Donohue, the visible world isn't all there is -- it's "the first shoreline of the invisible world." The question of what should I do, is secondary to the question of "how should I be?" In short, spirituality isn't an esoteric notion, but an accessible, natural response to the landscapes of beauty around us, and within us. His unique perspective, captured in this rare interview, is informed by a rich life experience, including a career as a Priest, a PhD scholar of existential philosophy and ancient Celtic wisdom, a corporate business consultant on leadership and creativity, and a modern poet and visionary. { read more }

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OneSeed Expeditions: Traveling for Good

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

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OneSeed Expeditions: Traveling for Good

I would define "good" as the daily pursuit of making the world ever so slightly better than you found it.

- Chris Baker -

OneSeed Expeditions: Traveling for Good

When you are 22, the world is your oyster. For Yale University graduate Chris Baker, that oyster contained a pearl, which was the idea for OneSeed Expeditions. OneSeed is now a way to take an amazing trip and give an entrepreneur in Nepal the seed money needed to start a business. As President of the Yale Mountaineering Club, Chris was inclined to start a business that would marry his passion for Nepal and love of climbing. OneSeed Expeditions germinated following his fellowship with Kiva.org, where he worked closely with a microfinance institution in Nepal and learned how he could create trips that could also assist the people of the region. { read more }

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The next time you take a trip, look for a small way to give to the local community you are visiting.


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A 21-Year-Old's Solution to Homelessness

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

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A 21-Year-Old's Solution to Homelessness

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

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A 21-Year-Old's Solution to Homelessness

As a design student in Detroit, Veronika Scott was keenly aware of the increasing numbers of homeless people suffering deeply during the relentless winters. At the tender age of 21, she created The Detroit Empowerment Plan to provide much-needed warmth to the city's 20,000 street dwellers. Scott is the creator of Element S, a coat that is self-heated, waterproof, and transforms into a sleeping bag at night. It is made by a group of homeless women who are paid, fed and housed while creating these coats made for those living on the streets. This Fast Company interview shares more. { read more }

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