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    HANAMI DREAMING: The start of spring in Japan

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    REFLECTIONS ON TODAY’S POLITICAL REALITIES: We can prevail over ignorance, lies and Trump

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    Malecon in La Paz, Mexico - Back on American Soil: A Safe Return Home From La Paz

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Niyati Shah
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MW Waste

MADE TO BE WASTED: The unsustainability of the current system of production

Niyati Shah·November 9, 2012
Let’s talk about shopping. We buy a lot of stuff: food, clothes, shoes, stationery, electronics, furniture, presents, greeting cards, decorations...
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Holier Than Thou - Barelkowski

HOLIER THAN THOU: Discussing religion and spirituality through art

Niyati Shah·November 2, 2012
It was the Thanksgiving weekend and the streets outside were quiet with just the rustling of fallen leaves. On this...
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WORKING WITH MINDFULNESS: Guided mindfulness exercises for the workplace

Niyati Shah·September 15, 2012
The workplace can be a hub of competition, deadlines and pressure that causes stress, agitation and unhappiness. Often we get so preoccupied trying to catch up that we don’t realize the power our minds hold to help us expand our reaches. Mental exercises to calm our minds can profoundly increase our ability to work with more focus, clarity, creativity, efficiency and positivity. Mirabai Bush, a seasoned mindfulness meditation practitioner and teacher, brings mindfulness exercises to her CD...
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TRUE DEMOCRACY: How Icelanders took back their power from the government

Niyati Shah·August 16, 2012
Revolution is in the air, my friends. We’ve heard much about the Middle East: Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria and more. We’ve also witnessed the recent Occupy Wall Street movement on the home front...
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A Vegetarian Feast - Vegetarianism

STAYING VEG: Ponderings of a lifelong vegetarian

Niyati Shah·July 29, 2012
I know people who went vegetarian at the tender ages of 14, 15 or 16. And for those teenagers and others who decide to relinquish an entire food group for whatever their...
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GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS: A case of mass deception

Niyati Shah·July 3, 2012
DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the substance that carries the genetic information on which our entire existence is built. And genetically modified organisms are plants...
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THE GERSON THERAPY: Alternative cancer treatment that treats toxicity and nutritional deficiencies

Niyati Shah·June 29, 2012
"In the United States, two-thirds of Americans are overweight and 20 million of us have diabetes, half of all Americans take prescription drugs and the cancer rate..."
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NATURAL BALANCE: John Robbins at the Food Revolution Summit

Niyati Shah·June 22, 2012
We make people happy,” was the slogan of ice cream giant Baskin Robbins' ad campaign many years ago. It proved successful, enthusing co-founder Irv Robbins...
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WHERE’S THE SOLIDARITY?: Climate change talks and Cochabamba

Niyati Shah·June 9, 2012
The first Conference of the Parties (COP 1) to discuss collective action on slowing down climate change was held in Berlin in 1995. The most recent one, COP 17, ended in Durban this past...
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URBAN SUSTAINABILITY: Sustainable development must start in cities

Niyati Shah·May 30, 2012
Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs," the Brundtland Commission declared in its landmark 1983 report...
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