Can You Imagine a Better World?

I have recently found a website that has really great ideas and great potential if it and its ideas were put to use. Below is a page from the site that I think highlights the spirit and potential of idealist.org. Check it out and join if it sounds good to you. If you are [...]

Complaining (or how to pour ten gallons of shit into a five gallon bucket)

This summer’s math class taught me a lot of things. The main one is that I shouldn’t complain. Complaining only wastes valuable time that could be spent practicing math. Math after all is a large part practicing formulas and making sure you carefully follow all the steps needed in order to solve the problem that [...]

What is True Wealth?

Finding Leland Lehman’s article, “Weathering the Economic Storm,” is yet another syncronicity to add to my list. Just the other day a friend and I had been wondering what happened to the alternative currencies that sprung up around the country in the mid 90’s. One begins to think of such things as the economy dives, [...]

Mother’s Trading Circle

Below is an email that I received from Mother Media on a topic that I have been wondering about lately. Remember local currencies? The seemed to pop up everywhere back in the 90’s. Since the economic dive lately I had been thinking of those currencies and when they might begin popping up again. Well, here [...]