Business leaders demonstrate a new triple bottom line for business: announcing the first two recipients of the second annual Sustainability Awards MINNEAPOLIS - The Alliance for Sustainability recently announced four recipients of its Second Annual Sustainability Awards: Ray Anderson, founder and chair of Interface, Inc.; Alisa Gravitz, executive director of Co-op America; David Morris, vice-president of the Institute for Local Self Reliance; and Eureka Recycling of St. Paul.The awards are based … [Read more...]

Every time we blink, our eyelids spread tears over our eyes to lubricate, moisturize and wash dust and debris from them. Tears are secreted by specialized glands located around the eye and are essential for their maintenance and health. Tears are made up of a combination of water (for moisture), oil (for lubrication), mucus (for even spreading) and antibodies (to resist infections). If there is an imbalance in our tear production system, we can suffer from dry eyes.People who have dry eyes often … [Read more...]

The convening of the first World Health Freedom Assembly - and fourth annual National Conference for Health Freedom Advocates - in St. Paul on September 29 through October 1 is a watershed moment in the history of health freedom.For the first time, health freedom organizations from around the world will gather together and create a Declaration of Health Freedom and Health Freedom Resolutions. The public is invited to witness and take part. This body will form a counter-balance to the global … [Read more...]

September 6-10Wild River Festival Harriet Island and other St. Paul venueswww.wildriverfestival.comThe inaugural Wild River Music, Comedy & Film Festival - the only national festivalpresenting a unique mix of music, comedy and film - will take place September 6-10and will feature 40 bands, 20 comedians and 36 independent films.The festival is the vision of Mick Sterling, Dav Kaufman and Ken Onstad, who foundedRise Media in 2006, a multimedia artist's conglomerate featuring a record … [Read more...]

Mahatma Gandhi once said: "Be the change you wish to see in the world." What does that mean in the practical aspects of daily living?First we must ask, "What does it mean to live daily?"Because we are all involved in a body self idea that seems to demand our attention for nourishment, ingratiation and a fearful startle response to avoid pain, we are busy daily, devoting our energy to survive. The five senses of pleasure and pain are not bad or wrong, we just can't know God … [Read more...]

"Commitment is one-pointed intention toward the fulfillment of your deepest desires." - Deepak ChopraAt the conclusion of his newest book, The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices (Health Communications Inc.), David Simon, M.D., writes about how he understands why, for thousands of years, people have been threatened with punishment to get them to do something. But he also has learned, especially in raising his three children, that such an approach rarely is a … [Read more...]

Any adventure is always a leap of faith. Engaging our spirituality is our faith-filled adventure into life. With fullness and enthusiasm, we have an idea. The idea takes more form as a vision, and step-by-step our idea becomes manifest as a full-blown vision of our original intention. This whole process is so very special and so very important to me in making a personal impact on life. We have so severely underestimated our human potential. We have lived in a 5,000-year era dominated by fear and … [Read more...]

The solution for worldwide peace has always been there, right under our noses. But it requires more of us than we seem willing to give. Now, with our backs to the wall, we have run out of options. The choice is simple: act or perish.Ever since the outbreak of hostilities between the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and Hezbollah, my e-mail inbox has been jammed with requests to send prayers, light candles, link up with meditation groups, sign petitions, send light and love and a host of similar … [Read more...]

I am definitely a glass is half-full kind of guy. In fact, it's always been my nature to view the world very optimistically.But after I read a survey that was published this week by the United States Automobile Association (USAA) - "High School Confidential: An Inside Look at Teens and Money" - I felt it was time to reconsider my eternal optimist mantra. To better understand the reasons behind my new self-doubt, I invite you to ponder a few of the findings from the survey:   … [Read more...]

When was the last time you made a promise to yourself that you did not keep? How long has it been since you told yourself that you would start a diet? Exercise more? Have you wanted to start a meditation practice but never seem to get around to beginning the process? If you find yourself answering yes, you would probably think you are suffering from procrastination, but Ralph Hubbard would tell you that your actions are rooted in fear.Ralph is a life coach and teacher who has developed a … [Read more...]

Mid-afternoons, fourth Saturdays of each month, my travel partner Rick Bernardo and I set out on the Spirit Road. With our feet to the floor and the wind at our back, we ride to places real and imagined - on the way to a better world.It's all a theatre of the mind - a figment of radio technology generated in a stationery basement studio. In actuality, we are "riding" airwaves beamed to seven metro counties from Air America Minnesota (AM 950), the local version of the nationally … [Read more...]

I want to keep my spirituality deep inside. I want to spend more time in prayer and meditation, in dreaming, in self-healing. I want to take more time to study the writings, and open those energy centers. I want to gaze into my wondrously unfolding inner universe. But to take my spirituality out into the world, to use it as my fuel to change a system, this is perhaps the most difficult spiritual challenge of all. I tell myself I don't know enough yet, I am not healed enough yet, I'm not wise … [Read more...]