Karen Armstrong is an author, religious historian and former nun who observes that world religions are not helping us realize our shared humanity.  She also observes that the one thing all religions have in common is the Golden Rule: do to others what you would like to be done to you. Karen Armstrong’s TED talk [...]

The Compassion movement continues! Please join the Compassionate Action Network and Seeds of Compassion on April 24th for: Compassionate Seattle; It’s Up to Us. This event marks the two-year anniversary of Seeds of Compassion, which was the largest event in the history of Washington State. Seattle made history again by being the first city in [...]

Valentine’s Day is a great day to reflect and evaluate how we are leading in the world: with our heads or with our hearts. I would argue that most of the time, especially those of us who pride ourselves on getting things done, spend too much time in our heads. There’s a lot of cerebral [...]

I had lunch today with my friend R. Paul Herman, founder of very cool investment concept and company called HIP Investor.  HIP stands for Human Impact + Profit. They’ve created a new index called the HIP 100 Index (TM) and it uses a completely new method for evaluating corporate profit and sustainability.  This is such [...]

Right now I’m helping with the launch of GlobalMojo, the first charitable web browser for socially conscious Internet users.  GlobalMojo gives 50% of their gross revenue to the nonprofits and schools of their consumers’ choice.  If you haven’t checked it out already, please visit GlobalMojo and download the full browser or add-on for Firefox. Please [...]