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Instilling Children With a Sense of Wonder and Excitement

21 October 2015 Leave a Comment

"The inspiring words of Rachel Carson brought to life by the awesome talents of Zen Pencils. "Rachel Carson (1907-1964) was a scientist, ecologist and writer who helped start the environmentalism movement with her book Silent Spring, published in 1962. "Inspired to appreciate the natural world by her mother, Carson also loved writing as a child. The quote used in the comic is taken from The Sense of Wonder, Carson’s essay on how to nurture a child’s love of nature. Carson writes about her own … Continue reading

A Manifesto for Children and a Better World

4 October 2015 Leave a Comment

"All cultures, societies, and nations are shaped by the way we raise children, what we teach them about the world becomes the world they create as adults. A range of scientific disciplines have overwhelming concluded that this is true starting from the inside biologically, emotionally, and neurologically, then manifesting outward as behavior and ultimately becoming social policy. "Author and researcher Robin Grille is perhaps one of the most prominent voices curating and bringing attention to … Continue reading

Is Nothing Something? Thich Nhat Hanh answers children’s questions

16 August 2015 Leave a Comment

"Children have a special place in the Plum Village tradition of Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh. There are special practices, vows, and programs designed especially for children and teens, and Thich Nhat Hanh often fashions the first part of his dharma talks with them in mind. He regularly takes questions from children, and by and large adults can identify with what they ask. Children may be smaller and younger and they may have a funny way with words, but their questions reveal that they, like … Continue reading

Transformational Education by Dr Jean Houston | Kosmos Journal

24 March 2015 Leave a Comment

"All children need windows of opportunity that will open them to a world that they will partner in new creation. Never has the time been so ripe for change, and never before has education been more available to new strategies. "The goal of this kind of education is what I have called ‘the possible human,’ the fetus of the emerging self. Perhaps this full expression of human potential has been coded in us since time out of mind, but only now have so many been called to its realization. What … Continue reading

Mac Macartney in the Big Green Chair: Action for Social Justice and Environmental Sustainability

1 March 2015 Leave a Comment

  Mac Macartney is the founder of Embercombe Foundation, located in a valley on the fringes of Dartmoor National Park, UK. Alongside many other diverse projects around the world, it is here that the threads of a new story are emerging. This new story asserts that every human, child or adult, possesses a gift which if developed and generously offered forward will take us one step closer to the world of our longing – a just world, ecologically diverse and bursting with health, spiritually … Watch video

International Peace Initiatives in Kenya with Dr. Karambu Ringera

11 February 2015 Leave a Comment

A compelling video contribution from New Story Summiteer, Karambu Ringera, courageous founder of International Peace Initiatives in Kenya. Karambu writes.... "At the Findhorn New Story Summit, I met Andreas Hernandez and his team who invited me to speak about my work at International Peace Initiatives (IPI). I did talk about our work and he captured it very well in this youtube presentation he sent today. It is powerful. "An African proverb says: 'If you want to walk fast, walk alone; if you … Watch video

Instilling Children With a Sense of Wonder and Excitement

A Manifesto for Children and a Better World

Is Nothing Something? Thich Nhat Hanh answers children’s questions

Transformational Education by Dr Jean Houston | Kosmos Journal

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