Inspirational and good news.
ThingsAreGood.com is going to have a general meeting for all peoples interested in changing the world for the better! Come out and talk about the world, meet like-minded people, or just come to drink.
Our first meet up will be in Toronto next week:
Where: The Last Temptation in Kensington Market (on the West side of Kensington Ave close to Dundas)
WhenThursday December 15th, 8:00 PM and on!
Look for the group of people who look like they’re talking about goodness!
A new website, Truthdig.com, that “drills” beyond the headlines to get to the truth.
From their About page:
“Truthdig is a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. The site is built around major “digs,†led by authorities in their fields, who will drill down into contemporary topics and assemble packages of content—text, links, audio, video—that will grow richer with time and user participation. To offer frequent change and surprise, the magazine will also present a diversity of original reporting and aggregated content culled by the site’s editors and staff.”
About a dozen people managed to sing six anti-consumer Christmas carols in a Winnipeg mall on Saturday before security removed them. The group promotes “Buy Nothing Christmas” because they are disgusted by the commercialization of the season.
They sung their carols beside “Santa’s House.”
Greenpeace activists entered a conference where Tony Blair was about to deliver a speech about the positive qualities of nuclear power and told the attendees that nuclear power is very dangerous. Blair champions the construction of new nuclear power plants.
Blair’s presence at the conference was kept secret, but rumors swirled that he would be present.
From the article:
“After a 40-minute stand-off – during which the protesters dropped yellow “nuclear fall-out” confetti on the delegates and Mr Blair went off and had a cup of tea – the CBI’s director general, Sir Digby Jones, emerged, somewhat embarrassed, to say that the speech would go ahead in another room.”
Green Drinks is a phenomenom that has been sweeping the world organizing and connecting human capital from the environmental field using age old organization tactics, networking and beer! Green Drinks brings together lively mixtures of people from NGOs, academia, government and business, fostering information sharing and networking under the guise of protecing the environment. Green Drinks is open to everyone becoming an organic, self organized network. Chapters exist across Canada and in: UK, USA, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Netherlands, Japan, Australia, Chile and Puerto Rica.