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A Mission to the Venice of the Amazon

September 28, 2012 By Justin Cascio 2 Comments

Welcome to Belen, where the poorest of the poor float for half the year on the floodplains of the Amazon.

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Featured Content, Green Politics, Mentoring and Volunteering, The Good Life Tagged With: Adam Frange, alcoholism, Amazon, Amazon River, Belen, Bethlehem, Bola Roja Clown Doctors, broken windows theory, Capital of the Amazon, children, clown doctors, Community Health Council, community violence, criminology, Doctors, domestic violence, environment, family violence, flooding, Gesundheit! Institute, Global Warming, government, holistic health, Hurricane Katrina, Iquitos, isolation, jungle, La Red por Belen, Latin America, literacy, malnourishment, medical mission, mental health, mission, mosquito-borne disease, non-profits, nonviolence, Parenthood, Patch Adams, Peru, play, poverty, public health, public services, safety net, service mission, sociology, STDs, teen pregnancy, The Network for Belen, Third World, University of Washington, Venice, violence, volunteering, waste management

Radically Moderate

August 28, 2012 By Carl Pettit 6 Comments

Be passionate—even radical—in your dedication to balance and reason.

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Featured Content, Root Down, The Good Life Tagged With: beliefs, business, civilization, Common Sense, competition, convictions, Culture, defense, dogma, dogma is fool's discipline, ethics, Foreign Policy, hawks, ideas, labor, military, moderate, passion, politics, progressive, radical politics, regulations, religion, revolution, safety net, science vs religion, social change, socially liberal, taxes, values, welfare

From Homeless to Ithaca Mayor at 24 Years Old

March 3, 2012 By the Editors 1 Comment

“This is not the story of a self-made man. This is the story of a community that conspired to raise a child.”

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog Tagged With: african-american, Cornell, homeless, Ithaca, manhood, mayor, mothers, Obama, poverty, President Obama, safety net

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Illinois Passes Bill for Comprehensive Sex-Ed in Public Schools

“In fantasy land, we teach our kids abstinence—and they listen.”

David R. Dow: Lessons From Death Row Inmates (TEDTalk VIDEO)

David R. Dow is an attorney in Texas who has defended over 100 death row inmates over the last 20 years.

HuffPost Live: Decapitating Extremism (VIDEO)

Mike Sacks discusses the attack in Woolwich, London, and extremism with a panel of experts on Islam and the Quran.

Our Mission: The Vasectomy Files 8

The Vasectomy Project is encouraging men to join forces and take responsibly for family planning. This is an opportunity to bring people together to talk about our collective responsibility while offering men a concrete way to contribute towards a solution by having a vasectomy.