The goal is to utilize religious structures as institutions to promote social justice.

The idea here is that in order to truly bring about the revitalizing change that occurs though such social movements, one must contemplate in solitude and reflection, to receive a divine revelation and guidance.

Jim, you rock. I saw you on CNN for the Compassion Forum, it was awesome. Barack Obama is able to articulate this vision incredibly.

Go Obama.

By: ee cummings

you shall above all things be glad and young

For if you're young, whatever life you wear it will become you; and if you're gladwhatever's living will yourself become.

Girlboys may nothing more than boygirls need:

i can entirely her only love 

whose any mystery makes every man's

flesh put space on;

and his mind take off time that you should ever think, may god forbid

and (in his mercy) your true lover spare:

for that way knowledge lies, the foetal grave

called progress, and negation's dead undoom. 

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing

than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance

Wouldn't cost nearly as much as a space program.

I wonder if web based courses are going to instill the same sense of community responsibility?

This is not a criticism of MIT's web-course; I adore that idea. I am just asking a critical question.

Environmental Health Perspectives (ehponline.org) has just published a study on the effects of pesticide exposure in children (Jan 2008). Researchers concluded that dietary intake from produce is the main source of organophosphorus pesticide toxin exposure for children. Results also indicate that a 5-day washout period with an organic-produce diet reduced toxin levels to none-detected or close to none.

Is this a human rights issue? These toxins impact the human nervous system negatively and contribute to various malfunctions and diseases.

It is obviously the current trend. Wal-Mart has recently announced that it now requires suppliers of its private label and other food products to have their factories certified against one of the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) standards.

It is time for economic structures to give way to this new model of business.

Any other good meditation mantras out there?