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The Oxford Word of 2019 By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post The word of the year for 2019 is "Climate Emergency," according to Oxford Dictionaries. Last year, that honor went to "Toxic." Climate emergency is defined as "a situation in which urgent action …
Reconnecting with Nature through Ritual By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post Many people feel that they are slipping further and further away from their once powerful and meaningful connection with the natural world. Stephen Cave and Sarah Darwin in their essay "It's Not Eas…
My Unruly Bushy Eyebrows By Frederic Brussat Blog Post Those who spend their time studying the body and human nature tell us that eyebrows are one of the most distinctive features of our appearance. No wonder so many women spend time plucking or pencili…
Just a Thought By KidSpirit Online Blog Post By Mia Ginsberg Have you ever thought about what it means to live?
A Prayer for the Change-Makers in America By Frederic Brussat Blog Post July 4 is Independence Day in the United States. Many Americans have mixed feelings about this day. As our friends at the Network of Spiritual Progressives wrote several years ago: "Faced with Ju…
The Universal Reach of Character Development By Frederic Brussat Blog Post KIP charter schools are offering teachers, children, and parents pragmatic and adventuresome ways to talk about and develop character. Their approach is based on the research of Dr. Martin Seligman …
The U.N. Report on Climate Change Is a Call to Action for Spiritual Activists By Frederic Brussat Blog Post The recently released UN report "Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability" makes it clear that the effects of global warming are already here with food shortages, droughts, and vi…
Sitting Too Much Is the New Smoking By Frederic Brussat Blog Post We have read that sitting is the new smoking and when we sit all day hunched over our computers, we are doing irreparable damage to our precious bodies. In this article by Caroline Dowd-Higgins, she…
A Meditation on the Animals of Australia By Patricia Campbell Carlson Blog Post Ecologists at the University of Australia in Sydney estimate that nearly 480 million mammals, birds, and reptiles have been killed by the bush fires sweeping the state of New South Wales, according …
The Ecology of Our Minds By KidSpirit Online Blog Post By Nimai Agarwal for KidSpirit’s Climate Change: Tending Our Planet issue. When I was eight years old, my parents used to take me to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. We would go every week…

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