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I went for my not-as-usual-as-it-used-to-be morning run and somewhere on my iPod between Tom Petty’s Breakdown and Lady Gaga’s Disco...

I’m sure you, like me, have been asked a million times: “What do you want to do?” Most of us have spent the majority of our adult...

When I started this column, it was my desire to feature artists making a difference in their creativity and communities. And I’ve had the...

Somewhere between dawn and coffee, the phone rang. James De La Vega was returning my call to schedule our interview, or so I thought... for him, ...

The video of Michael Franti and Spearhead’s new hit song ‘Hey Hey Hey’ was just released on Yahoo! Music. It is yet another of...

In his classic 1968 book "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth," futurist Buckminster Fuller writes, Having been trained at the U. S....

Chapter 1, Paragraph 2 (The long paragraphs may be divided for ease of reading.)“Because our spontaneous initiative has been frustrated, too...

Buckminster Fuller’s classic book “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth” was originally published in 1968, yet the insights and...

Annual "Journey to the Soul" Retreat with Gary Zukav and Linda Francis happening in July, 2010. Photo: Seat of the Soul Institute Once...

Undriver Licensing Station. Photo: Undriving.org. The Seattle based “Undriver” initiative was again prominent and vital at the annual...