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03/28/12
thegreenchildrenfoundation
· Positive News

Mahatma Gandhi

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
Eminem

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Norman Vincent Peale

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Frederick Douglass

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw

Beth

Positive Quote Wednesday – on Healing

03/07/12
thegreenchildrenfoundation
· Positive News

A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I’m sure that’s true, but they aren’t willing to make healing a high priority. They aren’t willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.
Lindsay Wagner

A physician’s physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric’s divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
Samuel Butler

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It’s not a dormant. It’s not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.
Mos Def

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.
Matthew Fox

But I’m going to focus on salvation as well as physical healing.
Benny Hinn

Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.
Stanislav Grof

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
Reba McEntire

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
Catherine Drinker Bowen

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Hippocrates

Healing is a moral thing to do.
Jay Inslee

Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.
Michael W. Smith

Beth

Dutch Doing it Again!

03/06/12
thegreenchildrenfoundation
· Positive News

The Dutch are big on bicycling: In fact, nearly half of all travel within the Netherlands is by bike. Now, one Dutch bicycle designer, Thomas Tolkamp of Tolkamp Metaalspecials, has taken the country’s obsession to the next logical step by building a cycling school bus.

The big yellow bike has eight sets of pedals for kids, a driver seat (for a lone grown-up), and three extra seats, comfortably seating 11 kids for their journey to and from school. The bike even includes a motor, which can help with steep hills or at times when few cyclists are on board.

So far, Tolkamp tells Fast Company, he’s sold 25 school-bikes, at a sticker price of $25,000 each—substantially less than it would cost to purchase a traditional schoolbus with the same number of seats. Along with the traditional yellow, the buses are available in an entire rainbow of colors.

Read more at Gimundo!

Beth

One Heart Beating – a Reader’s Suggestion

02/27/12
thegreenchildrenfoundation
· Positive News

I love your site, and because what we are creating is extremely positive I want to share it with you.

(Watch our heartwarming One World, One Heart Beating video – created by 9-year-old Kasper here http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kY9HieCkT9c – and light up your day!)

One part “Playing for Change”, one part “We are the World”, One World, One Heart Beating is a global anthem for peace and understanding sung and played entirely by children from around the world.

It is also an interactive website where educators can find great tools for teaching tolerance, and kids (and grown-ups too!) can explore and share ways of fostering joy, compassion and unity.

Since the project’s Valentine’s Day launch, praise and invitations have been flooding in from teachers, kids, diplomats, film festivals, African based NGOs, the press and even Carnegie Hall!

For the full story please visit our EPK http://oonamcouat.com/EPK_One_World_One_Heart_Beating.html and/or http://oneworldoneheartbeating.com/.

Given that this project is a fundraiser for War Child, whose acclaimed programs assist some of the most vulnerable kids on the globe, any suggestions you have, or anything you might be able to do to help spread the word about our project would be most appreciated!

Warmly,
Oona

Beth

Positive Quote Wednesday – on Attraction

02/22/12
thegreenchildrenfoundation
· Positive News

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.
Gustave Moreau

I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.
Brian Molko

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.
Lars von Trier

I have never fallen in love with my own voice, but I’ve always had an attraction for it.
Tom Snyder

I hope I’m not a tourist attraction – I’m sure that they come here really because St. Andrews is just amazing, a beautiful place.
Prince William

I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I’m always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don’t understand the attraction.
Cate Blanchett

Beth

Positive Quote Wednesday – on Communication

02/15/12
thegreenchildrenfoundation
· Positive News

Ah, communication. Such an elusive concept at times, isn’t it? We know when we are communicating, but when we’re not, it’s not always that simple to fix it. One thing is sure: it’s very important. From interpersonal relationships to global peace, communication can make or break us.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn’t listening.
Emma Thompson

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.
Rockwell Kent

As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire’s job. That doesn’t mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today’s managers a bit differently.
Jim Evans

As soon as you judge communication a little more rigorously, there is a possibility that the message will not be democratized. I have to say what I believe to be right. I have to spread out the statement among all the means of expression available to us at present.
Alexander Kluge

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.
Rowan D. Williams

Beth

Positive Quote Wednesday – on Valentine’s Day

02/08/12
thegreenchildrenfoundation
· Positive News

When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein

I don’t understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine’s Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon. ~Author Unknown

For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown

Love – a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown

I claim there ain’t
Another Saint
As great as Valentine.
~Ogden Nash

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. ~Author Unknown

Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. ~Author Unknown

A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, “Outside the Dog Museum”

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness – and call it love – true love. ~Robert Fulghum, True Love

Positive Quote Wednesday – on Valentine’s Day

02/08/12
thegreenchildrenfoundation
· Positive News

When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein

I don’t understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine’s Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon. ~Author Unknown

For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown

Love – a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown

I claim there ain’t
Another Saint
As great as Valentine.
~Ogden Nash

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. ~Author Unknown

Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. ~Author Unknown

A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, “Outside the Dog Museum”

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness – and call it love – true love. ~Robert Fulghum, True Love

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness – and call it love – true love. ~Robert Fulghum, True Love

Beth

Composter Extraordinaire

01/26/12
thegreenchildrenfoundation
· Positive News

Sending food waste to landfill is unnecessary, unsustainable and costly. Discussing the problem in an Exmoor pub one night were Richard Gedge – an ex-stockbroker who now runs an award-winning farm for its green credentials – and Dan Welburn, a former formula one engineer. Together, after experimenting with prototypes, they created the Ridan composter.

Capable of composting up to 400 litres of food waste a week, they have helped divert over 1,000 tonnes from landfill in two years, according to the company. They are proving popular with hotels, National Trust sites, prisons and even climbing centres.

Perhaps most importantly, colleges and schools are using them, not only to save money on disposal costs, but to help raise environmental awareness about the food cycle – helping young people to learn to appreciate food and think about prioritising locally sourced food. Food miles are usually considered with the distance from where it is produced to where it is consumed. But perhaps less often does anyone factor in the distance that wasted food travels to be disposed.

The ‘in-vessel’ composter is simple to use say its manufacturers, and it is suitable for all food waste, including cooked and raw, meat and dairy. The Ridan composting process requires no electricity and is carbon negative. Its design led to it being a finalist in the Devon Environmental Business Initiative (DEBI) awards in its first year. It was recognised not only for its sustainable practice in dealing with food waste, but also for savings in emissions. The process saves in combustion emissions through eliminating transportation, as well as reducing the methane from decomposing matter, which occurs in landfill.

“We are proud of what we have achieved so far and are now expanding rapidly. One day it will be standard practice for every catering facility to compost on-site,” says Dan Welburn. And his best moment since their system was launched? “Watching ‘I’ve got a brand new Ridan Composter’ sung by children at an assembly to the tune of Wurzels.”

Source: Positive News

Beth

Blind 11-year Old Crosses Finishing Line

01/24/12
thegreenchildrenfoundation
· Positive News

Wakana Ueda followed the sounds of applause, of chanting and of her mother’s voice as she crossed the finish line of the Honolulu Marathon on December 11.

The blind, 11-year-old girl from Toyota City, Japan, had tears in her eyes as she reunited with her family after 14 hours, 3 minutes and 12 seconds since the start of the race, Hawaii News Now reports.

The girl’s first marathon was not without its difficulties: the physical strains of the course almost derailed her at several points – but determination and encouragement from her team carried her through the finish line strung with flower petals.

Source: Daily News

Beth

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