VIA Business Insider by Tony Manfred Milwaukee Bucks forward Larry Sanders has walked away from basketball after five years in the league, agreeing to a buyout with the team after the trade deadline. Sanders had three years remaining on a $44 million contract. He left around $21 million on the table in the buyout. Sanders, age […]
VIA “trueactivist.com” by Sophie McAdam Lasqueti is a secret Canadian island where the vast majority of residents are completely off-grid. Lasqueti is a small island between Vancouver and Vancouver Island, twelve miles long and three miles wide. It is home to a little known community of off-gridders who take pride in their isolation from both mainstream culture […]
“Don’t allow anyone to tell you that what you’re dreaming for yourself and for your family isn’t possible. It IS possible.” – Howard Shultz, CEO Starbucks Knowledge. from The Do-ers
VIA Collective-Evolution by Joe Martino The funny thing about testing in school is that all it truly does is show the understanding an individual has on a certain subject at a given time. Their understanding can change drastically in following months, yet the test score is typically all that matters. We then go on to judge […]
VIA The Mind Unleashed Sopie McAdam, True Activist In another creative and thought-provoking short film from esoteric vlogger ‘Revolution Love Evolve‘, one of Terence McKenna‘s most celebrated speeches is mixed with visuals to make a hard-hitting (but positive) point about the future of humanity. Terence McKenna talks about perception, environmental destruction, culture, politics and inner spiritual work from a joint lecture with […]
VIA The Mind Unleashed by John Vibes from True Activist NFL star Jason Brown has quit playing football professionally, and now spends his days as a farmer, who harvests free food for the hungry. Jason Brown was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the fourth round of the 2005 NFL Draft, and played college football at North […]
VIA The Spirit Science by Steven Bancarz In a national park in Keyna, near Mount Kilimanjaro, an 8 month old elephant calf fell into a man-made well with about a foot of water inside of it. The poor baby elephant was too small to crawl out of it, leaving her and her mother in a frantic […]
VIA Pulptastic In 2007, inventor Kenton Lee was walking to mass in Nairobi, Kenya when he saw a little girl in a white dress wearing shoes so small for her feet, her toes were sticking out. He thought, “Wouldn’t it be great if there was a shoe that could adjust and expand — so that kids always […]
This is the story of the people of Bougainville Island, a community in the Solomon Islands that successfully led a fight against attempts to setup a mining operation on their Island, which would have done irreparable damage to the local ecosystem. Directed by Dom Rotheroe, The Coconut Revolution shares the otherwise untold story of the successes […]