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Technology extends our thought, our reach, our vision, helps us transcend our boundaries. I think that's a message everybody can get behind. 
I wanted my audience to identify with Shylock in a deeply personal way, so much so that they would involuntarily nod and think, “Yes, I understand, I have been there.”
In the 43 years since Earth Day was first observed, the number of Americans who view conscious environmentalism as "very important" has dropped by almost a quarter, according to a new poll.
NASA's recent discovery of two Earth-like planets within the Kepler-62 solar system - the most Earth-like planets ever detected - is creating excitement in the scientific community that we’re close to finding […]
The Chinese smart priority on diversifying their energy portfolio and creating jobs is something that we should match them on, again. 
Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev be tried as an enemy combatant or face a federal civilian trial?  
Not all vitamins are good for all people, all the time. In fact, some can kill you. And guess what? We know where the bodies are buried.
How can a uniquely Shakespearean habit of mind can be applied to our own lives in order to help us think more creatively?
Cruelty preoccupies me. I find that stories of cruelty stay with me, hauntingly, and infiltrate deeply. I cannot conceive of it in its most basic elements, the physical act of […]
We’re in a period now where capitalism is going to have to recreate itself because that selfishness works to an extent but it does leave people behind.
Historians believe that Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564, making today his 449th birthday. He also died on this date in 1616. And so Shakespeare is the subject of today's Mind Memes.
We need to support today's "Eco Warriors" so they can "get to work and keep on raising the awareness and push corporations, governments, society at large to make better decisions."
We need to create more resilient and innovative workplaces because the competition is fierce out there in 21st century.
You can equally improve my innovation or discovery skills if you just learn what they are and how to become better at it.
Key moments and achievements from the modern environmental movement. 
What has already silenced the voices of spring in countless towns in America?
"How can I stylize a movement -- the environmental movement -- and make it interesting?"
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Roger Moenks's I Am Eco Warrior Project aims to stylize the environmental movement as cool or in the frontline of pop culture.
If you take the analytic approach to realistically look at your skills and your strengths and help develop a plan, a roadmap to get through a challenge and identify role models in your life you'll be on the road to optimism.
In a push against a "buy-toss-buy" consumer culture, a group of residents in one German city get together once a month to fix broken household items. It's an example of the slowly-growing "hackerspace" movement.