http://www.thegreenchildren.org/tgcf/foundationpress Positive News, Green Things, Microcredit and The Green Children. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:24:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.thegreenchildren.org/tgcf/foundationpress/2012/02/positive-quote-wednesday-on-valentine%e2%80%99s-day-2/ 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 ... http://www.thegreenchildren.org/tgcf/foundationpress/2012/02/positive-quote-wednesday-on-valentine%e2%80%99s-day/ PORTLAND, Ore. – A family of three huddled on the edge of an old-growth Oregon forest for six days, lost and cold, unable to signal search helicopters flying low and slow overhead. Without food, water or even warm clothing, Belinda and Daniel Conne, along with their ... http://www.thegreenchildren.org/tgcf/foundationpress/2012/02/family-found-in-forest/ None of us like to feel regretful. We want to believe our decisions lead us in the right direction. But often that isn’t the case. What do we decide on something that didn’t work ... http://www.thegreenchildren.org/tgcf/foundationpress/2012/02/positive-quote-wednesday-on-regrets/ It’s been three years since the green roof was planted on Vancouver’s new convention centre. Is it a success? Is it as good as they promised it would be? The answer is that some parts are terrific — attractive, quality planting; a beautiful habitat for songbirds and insect life. But other areas are ... http://www.thegreenchildren.org/tgcf/foundationpress/2012/01/the-largest-living-roof-3-years-later/ 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 ... http://www.thegreenchildren.org/tgcf/foundationpress/2012/01/composter-extraordinaire/ 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 ... http://www.thegreenchildren.org/tgcf/foundationpress/2012/01/blind-11-year-old-crosses-finishing-line/ From Only Positive News writer Beth Mann: I worry. More than I care to admit. Sometimes I don’t feel as if I have any control over it. But I do. (I mean, if I don’t, ... http://www.thegreenchildren.org/tgcf/foundationpress/2012/01/worry-freedom-an-everyday-practice/ One way that we can cultivate belief in ourselves is by incrementally increasing how we challenge our self. We can do this by setting one small goal at a time, taking the neccessary steps to set ourselves up for success and then of course, by sticking with ... http://www.thegreenchildren.org/tgcf/foundationpress/2012/01/new-year%e2%80%99s-solutions/ To Touch You More My New Year’s resolution made over a decade ago was to touch people more. To break that social wall that keeps our hands and bodies a safe distance from one other. To connect more physically. I’m speaking of the non-sexual variety of ... http://www.thegreenchildren.org/tgcf/foundationpress/2012/01/the-only-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolution-that-worked/