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Honoring the Days That Shaped You
Awareness, NEW
When a new year is about to begin, it can be easy to focus on what is next and skip over what has already been lived. But the year you
How Mindfulness Empowers Us
Awareness, Education Transformed
Mindfulness allows us to see our thoughts and feelings as they really are, freeing us from old ways of thinking. Want to give it a try? Check out this animation
How Public Schools Keep Kids in Poverty
Education Transformed
Why should a good education be exclusive to rich kids? Schools in low-income neighborhoods across the US, specifically in communities of color, lack resources that are standard at wealthier schools
How to Escape Education’s Death Valley
Education Transformed
Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish — and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring TED talk he tells
How to Practice Loving Kindness
Awareness
It is so easy for us to dwell on all of the regrettable things we have done or said — the times when we look back and feel we were
How We See Self-Directed Education
Education Transformed
Watch below as Akilah S. Richards and Laura Kriegel from the Alliance for Self-Directed Education explain how unschooling, free/democratic schools, learning centers, co-ops and more relate. As we move forward, we
Human Population Growth and Extinction
Environmental Crisis
The planet is experiencing a mass extinction event with an estimated 30,000 species being driven to extinction per year. This mass extinction differs from all previous extinction events in being
Human Population Through Time
Environmental Crisis
It took 200,000 years for the human population to reach 1 billion—and only 200 years to reach 7 billion. Human population growth has slowed in recent years as women are