Inspire thought for January

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."

~ Mark Twain

Inspire thought for December

"We need to learn and always remember that our actions today will dictate the type of world our children and grandchildren grow old in. It is our greatest responsibility."

~ Sir Richard Branson

Inspire thought for November

“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.”

~ Nelson Mandela

Inspire thought for October

“There are thousands and thousands of people out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they work long, hard hours at jobs they hate to enable them to buy things they don’t need to impress people they don’t like.” - Nigel Marsh

LifeEdited

Design your life to include more money, health and happiness with less stuff, space and energy.

To Learn More: LifeEdited

Sydney Allicock Explains How Tourism Provides Jobs

"We may not have a five star hotel, but we have a five star forest," says Sydney Allicock, a Member of Parliament and pioneer of community-based tourism in Guyana.

In this video, he explains the benefits that tourism has brought to his entire community and his hopes to expand the concept throughout Guyana. Conservation International has worked with Sydney and others throughout Guyana to develop sustainable economic paths into the future.

To Learn More: Conservation International

Divide In Concord

Divide in Concord is a feature-length documentary that follows the entertaining tale of banning bottled water in small town America.

In 1775, Concord patriots fired the infamous 'shot heard round the world' that began a Revolution and defined a nation. Now a local eighty-four year-old woman has waged another seemingly unwinnable battle. For three years Jean Hill has been trying to rid the town of single-serve plastic bottles of water. Complete with strong opposition from local merchants and the bottled water industry, Jean is once again leading the controversial crusade.

To Learn More: Divide In Concord

Inspire thought for September

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."  Anne Frank

Inspire thought for August

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.  You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."  Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspire thought for June

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)