Top 10 Green Hotels in the US

It's safe to say that green is the new black — especially in the hotel world. From composting and water conservation programs to green roofs and landscaping that provide natural habitats for local species, hotels are striving to help sustain our planet. Along with their favorable ratings, they post their LEED and Green Seal certifications like badges of honor. While we can appreciate a candlelit yurt made out of reclaimed materials, GAYOT's list of the Top 10 Green Hotels in the U.S. shows that being eco-friendly doesn't require giving up luxury. Each property in this collection is notable not only for its attitudes toward the environment, but also for its food scene, sense of style and exceptional level of comfort. 

8 Feng Shui Tips That Bring In Prosperity

Feng Shui is a Chinese system of harmonizing the environment by balancing the elements to create a specific ambiance, clear negative energy and or bring in positive energy. These 8 Feng Shui tips can help you to not only bring in waves of prosperity, but they will keep the money flowing and growing.

Resources - Aingeal Rose

Aingeal Rose

www.AingealRose.com

I first learned of Aingeal Rose from Coast to Coast AM.  She offers an insightful look into the Akashic Records and does readings every Sunday (for a fee).  You can find past Podcasts in the Media section of the website.  Below is her biography taken from Coast to Coast AM.

During the past 40 years Aingeal Rose O'Grady has acquired certifications in numerous healing modalities including Reiki (all levels to Master Teacher), Psychic Laser Therapy, Hypnotherapy including past life regression, Kathara Healing and more. She was a Tarot reader and teacher for 35 years and teaches transformational writing. She has been doing private Akashic Record readings for clients world-wide over the past 15 years and began Group Akashic sessions in 2010 in Ireland and the United States.

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Spiritual Humor

Thought for the Day

"The greatest gift that you can give to others 
is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance."

 ~Brian Tracy

Norway to 'completely ban petrol powered cars by 2025'

Norway will ban the sale of all fossil fuel-based cars in the next decade, continuing its trend towards becoming one of the most ecologically progressive countries on the planet, according to reports.

Politicians from both sides of the political spectrum have reportedly reached some concrete conclusions about 100 per cent of Norwegian cars running on green energy by 2025.

How to Turn Your Life into an Awesome Journey

Life can be a celebration, but many of us don’t realize it, and don’t seem to savor the beautiful moments existence is offering us as a gift each and every moment. We are wasting most of our time doing things that we don’t enjoy doing, and our way of life is having tremendous negative effects on our body and our psyche.

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

8 devastating ways America’s children are being poisoned on an everyday basis

A culture is measured by how they treat their most vulnerable. Infants and great grandmothers. Sixty million unknown children being plucked and pulled from what was our sacred space – our womb – indicates just how much we don’t want to be bothered with children. They’re messy, they take too much time… they prevent us from doing everything we want to do, right? And, if they make it through that third trimester intact, we’ll shoot them up with vaccines to bring them up to our level of disease. Or kill them outright. Infants feeding on GMO formula are fungible fodder for sugar death or addiction, obesity, WiFi-fried brains, genderfluid-flowing minds bowing down to their cell phone robot gods.

Our Beautiful Planet

"Our Beautiful Planet" posts are amazing pictures from around our spectacular planet 

to help you relax, open your heart, mind, and soul 

to help remind you that we live on a pretty special planet to fulfill our soul purpose. 

Thought for the Day

Our thinking can take us down a road to a destination 

that we have no desire to visit, 

as in thinking of illness, lack, or disharmony in human relations.  However, at any time before we reach a destination, 

we can change directions.  

By changing the directions of our thoughts, 

we can change our course whenever we choose 

and reach a destination of health, happiness, and prosperity.

Escaping the Prison of Materialism: How to Not Let Material Things Take Over Your Life

In the materialistic world that we live, we worship objects and derive pleasure solely from them. We want to possess more and more, thinking that only this way we can live in joy. Our thirst for more material things is never quenched, and we end up even more thirsty, addicted, sad, exhausted.

Animals Now Listed As “Sentient Beings” Rather Than Property In Quebec

The Canadian province of Quebec used to be regarded as a haven for puppy mills, but that has since changed. In a bill tabled in Quebec in 2015, animals are now considered “sentient beings” rather than property. The legislation states:

“Animals are not things.

They are sentient beings

and have biological needs.”

Inspirational Video - How Wolves Change Rivers

When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent nearly 70 years, the most remarkable "trophic cascade" occurred. What is a trophic cascade and how exactly do wolves change rivers? George Monbiot explains in this movie remix.

This is a great example of how it is vitally important that we learn to live in harmony with planet earth.  She has a remarkable ability to heal herself if given the chance.

Spiritual Humor

Eating Black Raspberries Significantly Lowers Cardiovascular Disease

An extract found in black raspberries can significantly lower arterial stiffness, a key measure of cardiovascular disease!

Black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis) has long been used in traditional alternative medicine in Korea because of its potential to improve vascular function. An extract found in black raspberries can significantly lower arterial stiffness, a key measure of cardiovascular disease, according to data from a Korean study.

10 of the Top Eco-Destinations in North America

In the 1950s, the world was crisscrossed by some 25 million annual tourists (i.e., overnight visitors). In 2014, according to the Center for Responsible Travel, that number ballooned to nearly 1.2 billion—about a 4,000 percent increase—contributing $7.6 trillion (almost 10 percent) to the world's GDP.

But the sad and inescapable fact is that all our flying, driving and trampling about has also contributed to the destruction of the environment, harming wildlife, historical sites and the livelihoods of indigenous societies around the globe.

As the largest global service industry, tourism can—and should—play a significant role in conservation and environmental sustainability. That was the message that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon delivered on World Tourism Day in 2012. “One of the world’s largest economic sectors, tourism is especially well‐placed to promote environmental sustainability, 'green' growth and our struggle against climate change through its relationship with energy," he said. 

Inspirational Poster

Discover Your Gift and Offer It to the World

Every person on earth is unique and can contribute something original to enrich the beauty of existence, but most of us, not having discovered our individuality and hence our gift, feel unimportant, believing that we don’t have anything beautiful to offer to the world.

Our whole upbringing has made us feel this way. From a very young age, we’ve been conditioned to believe that we are not enough as we are, to do things other than those we enjoy doing, and to follow a predetermined course of life as dictated by others in order to be accepted by society. Naturally, we’ve lost touch with our Self, not realizing our uniqueness and significance.

Bombshell study admits antidepressants increase suicide attempts in teens and are completely worthless for treating depression

A bombshell study published in the medical journal The Lancet admits what Natural News and others in the holistic health community have been reporting for years: antidepressants kill. On Wednesday, researchers published the most comprehensive analysis to date of the safety and efficacy of widely prescribed antidepressants in children and teens.

What they found is that the majority of antidepressants prescribed to young people have far more risks than benefits, doing essentially nothing to ease symptoms of depression, while significantly increasing suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts, CBS News is reporting.

80 Percent of Americans Can’t See the Milky Way Anymore

New sky atlas reveals the worsening state of light pollution,
which has several consequences.

The Milky Way illuminates the sky over Dinosaur National Monument,
which spreads across Colorado and Utah.

 

PHOTOGRAPH BY DAN DURISCOE

The Milky Way galaxy, that torrent of stars that slashes across a deeply darkened night sky, has been a deep well of inspiration from humanity’s earliest days. The ancient Egyptians saw it as a pool of cow’s milk, while in Hindu mythology the arcing galactic arm was likened to a dolphin swimming through the sky. Countless scientists, philosophers, and artists, including Galileo, Aristotle, and Vincent Van Gogh, have drawn upon the galaxy as their muse. 

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

How To Simplify Your Life: A Practical Guide

This is a great article not only does it give you some good ideas on how to simplify your life, it goes a step further and tells you WHY taking the steps are necessary.  ~Todd

What does it mean to live simply?

This is not an easy question to answer, since a “simple life” is understood differently by every person.

For me, to live simply means to let go of all that is unnecessary and stick to the essential, make room in your life for what truly matters to you, spend quality time doing what you are passionate about and be with people you love being with, and, most importantly, find mental clarity and achieve a state of inner peace, so that you can live in happiness, enjoy every moment and be grateful for your life’s wonderful journey.

To live simply, however, is not as simple as it might at first seem. In fact, in the chaotic world that we have created and have been brought up, it can be quite difficult. Our traditions, habits, and overall conditioning prevent us from finding simplicity, and it takes much effort on our part to master the art of living simply.

Now you might ask: “How can I simplify my life?”

Thought for the Day

"Instead of hating, 

I have chosen to forgive 

and spend all of my positive energy 

on changing the world."

 ~Camryn Manheim

Belgium quits coal power with Langerlo plant closure

Langerlo power plant, Belgium, has burned its last coal (Flickr/Tom Davidson)

Belgium’s last coal power plant, Langerlo, closed on 30 March.

It is the end of an era for a dirty fuel that accounted for 27% of the country’s electricity generation in 1994.

The EU country becomes the seventh to quit coal, joining Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg and Malta.

11 Pearls of Wisdom From the 14th Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama is a monk and the spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism. Today’s current Dalai Lama is the the 14th Dalai Lama, and he is known worldwide for spreading a message of compassion and tolerance.

Below are a few of my favorite quotes from the 14th Dalai Lama. My hope is that they bring you a little extra peace today.

3 Tools To Forgiveness That You Need To Do Today

Sometimes it’s hard for people to differentiate forgiveness with weakness. Forgiving someone has nothing to do with being weak or the other person being right, instead it has everything to do with your health and the weight that carrying around ill feelings or hatred does to you. irregardless of the details as to the situation that occurred that requires forgiveness, when you forgive it all becomes irrelevant. And it is not about getting the last word in, or karma, or revenge, it is about focusing on how you can be a better person by putting positive energy into the world and if you can do that then you will rise up and fly beyond whatever it is that used to affect you.

Here are 3 tools to help you get to that place.

How to Awaken Your Psychic Power to Feel Your Aura

An aura is an energy field that radiates out from your entire body. It’s radiance has been photographed, and has a very different image than body heat escaping from the body. People have auras of varying intensity and color, which trained mediums attempt to feel, see and decipher.

Although it’s challenging to feel and see another person’s aura (video below), it is not at all difficult to feel your own. Following is the simplest way to feel your own aura.

Another way is to rub your hands together quickly, and then bring them slowly apart. This will help you form a sort of ball between your hands. This is your auric energy.

Resources - Bioneers

Bioneers
www.bioneers.org

We stand at the threshold of a singular opportunity in the human experiment: To re-imagine how to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations.

At the same time the world faces the escalation of climate change and extreme environmental and social disruption, we’re also witnessing a profound transformation taking hold in many parts of the world. It augurs the redesign of human civilization in accordance with a new paradigm that honors and emulates the wisdom of nature’s design sophistication, and that’s rooted in values of justice, equity, diversity and democracy.

It’s a revolution from the heart of nature and the human heart. From here on, the challenge is to alter the “mindscape” and advance the transformation in the shortest possible time. As Winston Churchill said, “It’s no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.” The way we’ll hold it together is to hold it – together. In community lies resilience.

This historic shift to become an ecologically literate and just civilization heralds a declaration of interdependence. Taking care of nature means taking care of people — and taking care of people means taking care of nature.

We can move from breakdown to breakthrough. The good news is that the solutions are largely present, or we know what directions to head in. Around the world in diverse fields of endeavor, social and scientific innovators have been developing and demonstrating far better technological, economic, social and political models. Human creativity focused on problem solving inspired by the wisdom of the natural world is eclipsing the mythology of despair.

Bioneers is a community of leadership, and in these times, we’re all called upon to be leaders. Connect with the Bioneers community of leadership and take part in the revolution from the heart of nature and the human heart…

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Penguin Travels 5,000 Miles Every Year To Visit The Human That Saved His Life

In 2011, retired bricklayer Joao Pereira de Souza, 71, who lives in an island village just outside Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, found a tiny penguin covered in oil and close to death.

Naming the penguin Dindim, Joao nursed the bird back to health. Dindim refused multiple attempts at release back into the wild, until he suddenly vanished more than 11 months later, shortly after he changed his coat.

Spiritual Humor

5 Foods To Ditch If You Struggle With Anxiety or Depression

When a bad day makes you feel like tearing your hair out, many of us head to the refrigerator for a strong dose of comfort food.  However, you may be about to sink your teeth into a treat that will leave you feeling even more stressed out and miserable than before! Whether it’s a slice of apple pie or a scoop of your favourite ice cream, everything in moderation can feed your sense of well being, but too much of a good thing can have long term effects on your mental health. Here are some foods to avoid when you’re feeling down and healthy substitutes that are satisfying without the guilt.

U.S. Senate Members Awaken To The Dumbness Posed By Smart Meter Technologies

Throughout the land and in lockstep with the United Nations and Agenda 21 [1, 2], AMI smart meters are being retrofitted on to utility customers’ services for electricity, natural gas, and water.

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

5 Pieces of Buddha Wisdoms That Will Change Your Life

There are many lessons to learn from Buddha, but here are 5 pieces of wisdom that could change you life for the better.

Thought for the Day

“I have never been especially impressed 

by the heroics of people convinced 

they are about to change the world. 

I am more awed by those who struggle 

to make one small difference.”

~ Ellen Goodman

Top foods that cause depression and destroy your mental wellbeing

Could depression be caused by your diet?  The link between unhealthy eating habits and chronic disease and disorders, including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity and increased incidence of stroke, are well known.  But, what about emotional wellbeing?

There is a growing body of evidence showing a strong connection between mental and emotional health, and a diet dominated by processed foods and refined sugar.

Our Beautiful Planet

"Our Beautiful Planet" posts are amazing pictures from around our spectacular planet to help you relax, open your heart, mind, and soul 

to help remind you that we live on a pretty special planet to fulfill our soul purpose. 

5 Behaviours That Show You Are Reaching a Higher Level of Consciousness

If there’s one thing we know beyond any doubt, it’s that all of life is an evolutionary process. Everything, from the smallest particle in existence to the universe as a whole is in the process of evolution. Immutability is the only truth. Expansion is the point. The only question is whether or not it’s happening consciously or unconsciously. As is the case with any pursuit — whether athletic, intellectual, or spiritual — certain signs will begin to show up after a particular amount of practice has been put in, and they will come out, as they should, in your behaviour. If they don’t, then you haven’t condensed the full understanding yet– the concept has not made its way fully to the level of action.

While there is, in reality, no actual ‘higher’ level of consciousness (this is an egoic idea based on comparison) there are, undoubtedly, different modes of seeing the world, resulting, of course, in different modes of being in the world– modes of being that open us up to more relaxation, harmony and balance, even as the external world continues on in the manner it always has. There has been an inner shift.

How do we know when we’re getting it? Here are 5 behaviors that show you are reaching a higher level of consciousness.

Cleaning Out Your Energy Closet

Is Your Energy Closet Getting a Little Too Full?

It’s that time! We all dread cleaning out the closet. It can seem daunting, taxing, and laborious. Afterwards, we feel organized once everything is in its place. Our energy can act as a closet too, storing things we don’t need. There can be old wounds, grudges, or heavier energy we forgot we had in our energy closet, that no longer serve us! Are you holding onto old things you no longer need? Time to take inventory!

So how does one do this? Cleaning our energy closet involves self-reflection and taking note of your energy system, emotions, physical health, and routine. Are you happy? Are you sad? Are you full of energy and zest for life? The answers to these questions will help let you know if you need to do some “spring cleaning.”

Inspirational Video - I Had a Dream

I had a dream that global peace was possible.

Spiritual Humor

15 Native American Proverbs That Will Speak To Your Soul

Imagine if these peaceful tribes we’re never raided and their land and lives never taken. The history of our world would have transpired completely differently. We would be in touch with nature, ourselves and the Earth.

We would be able to connect with animals, the stars, the flowers and each other so deeply; something so simple that has been lost through modern reality. Let us never forget the wisdom these natives shared. Let us re-create the world of cosmic, earthly and universal understanding they once knew.