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A positive vision of the future challenges the culture to dare, to be open to change, and to accept a spirit of creativity that could alter its very structure. ~ David Spangler

As a small organization with a global mission, the Earth Policy Institute has designed a unique information dissemination model, capitalizing on the synergy between a worldwide network of book publishers, the communications media, and the Internet. Through this distribution network, countless individuals and organizations have become aware of the environmental issues facing the world and

Coyote was walking down the road one day, thinking only of food.  It had been several days since he had last eaten, and he felt so sorry for himself that he sobbed with his face against his arm.  His stomach was making noises like boiling water, and his head hurt.  And then, near where the

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Tell your friends about the IE, visit us often, and be sure to let us know if there is anything that you would like us to cover.  As Margaret Mead wrote: “Never underestimate the power of a few committed people to change the world.  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

Man’s greatest single task today is to develop in himself the power of non-violence.  Everything he does violently, for example, in agriculture, could also be done relatively non-violently, that is gently, organically, patiently adapted to the rhythms of life.  The true task of all further research and development is surely to devise non-violent methods of

SAM’s mission in life is to streamline the setting of multi-person meetings through a simple, web-based scheduling interface. He eliminates the inefficiency of repeated phone calls and emails, providing a cross-platform, scheduler-independent tool for coordinating any number of meeting participants.

Xerox has created an outstanding site for individuals across the country to recognize U.S. troops stationed overseas. Let’s Say Thanks is a website that allows individuals to pick out a thank you card that Xerox will print and send to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq.  Senders cannot pick out who gets it,

You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’~ George Bernard Shaw

The Foundation for Global Community(FGC) is a nonprofit educational organization, dedicated to reconnecting people, the planet, and prosperity.  Recognizing that natural, social, and economic systems are all parts of a single interconnected whole, the Foundation has been promoting cultural change, facilitating personal development, and strengthening community connections for over 50 years. Click here for more

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart.  His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. ~ Pearl S. Buck

Reality’s Never Been of Much Use Out Here. ~ retired Wyoming rancher, 1997

And here I am in Colorado!  I kept thinking gleefully.   Damn! damn! damn! I’m making it! ~ Jack Kerouac, On the Road, 1957

Adobe Systems Incorporated‘s West Tower headquarters building in downtown San Jose earned the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)‘s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) Platinum certification.  The Adobe tower is the world’s first commercial office building to earn this highest recognition possible for energy and environmental design excellence under the USGBC’s permanent LEED Existing

Office Depot for the first time is customizing The Green Book(TM) catalog of environmentally preferable products in six country-specific versions. The award winning catalog is now available to Office Depot’s contract customers in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium. "Office Depot first launched The Green Book in the United States

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In the next society, the biggest challenge for the large company-especially for the multinational-may be its social legitimacy, its values, its missions, and its vision. ~Peter Drucker

A strange thing happened to me today.  I saw a big thundercloud move down over Half Dome, and it was so big and clear and brilliant that it made me see many things that were drifting around inside me. –Photographer Ansel Adams, late 1930s

"People who seem to have had a new idea have often simply stopped having an old idea." ~ Edwin Land

The emergency in Sudan’s western region of Darfur presents the starkest challenge to the world since the Rwanda genocide in 1994.  A government-backed Arab militia known as Janjaweed has been engaging in campaigns to displace and wipe out communities of African tribal farmers. Villages have been razed, women and girls are systematically raped and branded,

"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation." – Pearl S. Buck

"Today’s problems cannot be solved if we still think the way we thought when we created them" Albert Einstein