Sunday, February 25, 2007

Voluntary Homelessness

A young student in LA takes an interesting approach to getting out of his credit card debit. He gets a camper shell for his truck and decides to live in his truck for a year! Here's an article from the LA times: Story

Thursday, February 15, 2007

10 lessons from the Dalai Lama

A list of 10 lessons from HH Dalai Lama and some brief interpretations of them.

Monday, February 12, 2007

Food not lawns

An interesting idea about our front lawns. We spend so much time, money, and water on front lawns that are kinda useless, what if we grew food instead? Here is a review of a book discussing that idea.. Food not lawns.

Greenbridge development

Check out this new community coming up in Carrboro, NC (near Chapel Hill). Its a housing community built with Green building practices and looks to be very nice.
Greenbridge

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

NC State upsets UNC!!!

This past Saturday the NC State Wolfpack had an awesome upset of the #3 ranked Tar Heels! Ah how sweet it is! Here are some great motivational posters a NC State student put together.. posters

Social networking for change

Check out Change.org a social networking site asking what you would like to change in the world. There is an interesting tag cloud showing what people want to change most.

Surviving on $12000 a year

Check out this post on MSN about a lady who has decided to go back to school at 48 and live on $12k a year. Although I'm not sure if I could ever get that frugal, I have to admire her spirit.

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Terra Bite Cafe in Seattle

Check out this cafe in Seattle, practically another Seva Cafe!!!

Terra Bite

Cancel or Allow?

I saw this ad last night on TV, and thought it was pretty funny, especially being a Mac guy :)
Cancel or Allow?

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Grape Juice gives the health benefits of red wine

Great news for us lightweight drinkers out there, we can have the heart benefits of red wine without the alcohol :)
Article