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Archive for May 30, 2011
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| May 30, 2011 |
| “Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower.” — S. H. Simmons |
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 “I have been sending out Smile Cards with little gifts around my work place for about six months. Since I place the gifts in our inter-office mailbox, I never know who gets them or see their reactions. As I place gifts in the mail box, I imagine people’s reactions and it makes me happy to know that maybe I am making someone’s day a little brighter. Today, I actually got to witness the reaction. Apparently, one of the little gifts I left in the mailbox this morning made it’s way to a co-worker of mine. Today’s gifts was a little cloth kleenex holder that you can leave in your purse and a yarn flower bag tag, so my co-worker, a guy, passed it along to another female co-worker. I heard them talking as they figured out what it was and why they had received it, and they started discussing the whole concept of “paying forward”. I later heard her talking and brainstorming on what she would like to do. It was exciting to hear others get excited about the “pay it forward” concept and hear their ideas.” — keriann
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| “I was recently disabled, and went from $80000 a year to poverty. Random gift cards would show up in the mail or stuck in my purse and calls from my nieces to say how much I’m loved.” — Annie74 |
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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
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The Great Tree Survey
According to a 2010 United Nations report, the rate at which forests are destroyed-logged or cleared to make way for farms or mines-was nearly 20 percent lower from 2000 to 2010 than it had been in the previous decade. Huge tree-planting programs, especially in China, reduced the net loss of forest even further. But vast areas are still being slashed, mostly in the tropics, including each year a Switzerland-size area of previously undisturbed, ecologically precious “primary” forest. Most of those trees are burned, and the carbon stored in their wood literally goes up in smoke. However, a new way of measuring the carbon in forests may help keep them from being cut down. { read more }
Submitted by: CF
Be The Change
Visit your local arboretum. Sponsor a tree. Plant a seed. |
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Sangha of Auspicious Companions 