From the monthly archives:

January 2008

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The world mar­kets crashed recently, and we were reminded of the futil­ity of short term think­ing. A friend wrote a piece about blog­ging (link) Another blog­ger wrote on the virtue of long vs short posts . I read an inter­view in ‘The McK­in­sey Quar­terly’ with Al Gore and David Bloods, founders of Generation […]

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One of my con­stant sources of inspi­ra­tion is best-selling author Dan Mill­man. I am start­ing to notice a pat­tern here: two of my spir­i­tual guides (Jack Lalanne and Dan Mill­man) were for­mer ath­letes, and shared their per­spec­tives on life with oth­ers in a rather pub­lic way. If you know of more characters […]

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About a week ago I cre­ated a ‘fun quizz’ to assess your level of envi­ron­men­tal lit­er­acy. Today we will focus on a few things you can do to con­tribute in the reduc­tion of car­bon emis­sions. Before we get started, let’s see why this is a worth­while goal.
The cause for reduc­ing car­bon emis­sions: Climate […]

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Do you always feel tired? This is rather easy to fix. As Jack Lalanne sug­gests on the video below, all you need to do is:

Exer­cise reg­u­larly
Eat a bal­anced diet
Relax

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBVk071N88M&feature=related
If it is so easy, and given the knowl­edge has been around for a very long time, why do we have a soci­ety full of exhausted peo­ple?
Maybe in […]

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A num­ber of things have made me think about the impact I have on this planet. There is the incred­i­ble promi­nence that envi­ron­men­tal issues have nowa­days in the news; Then there was Dan Millman’s blog post about the impact that my choice not to be a veg­e­tar­ian has on car­bon emis­sions. And yesterday, […]

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