HuffPost: "embrace a more sustainable way of life"

This quote, on the eve of Earth Day, comes from Brian Hardwick's article, "Finding a New Way to Live - Innovation Isn't Enough to Spark a Clean-Energy Revolution". Although it appeared on the Huffington Post, it first appeared elsewhere.

"While pushing for global consensus and regulation, we need to spend an equal amount of time and money on figuring out how to redesign our current existence. We need to better understand how we live, work, and interact with energy right now. If we examine what the average person in any society doesn't like about how they currently live, what annoys them, and what they want improved, perhaps we could find answers in clean, healthy alternatives. Additionally, we need a deep understanding of the cultural and political obstacles to change and determine the best ways to break these down. I'm not suggesting focus groups or polling for attitudes. We need practical research that involves experts and people working together to identify what works for individuals and communities -- and what doesn't. We have millions of smart‚ creative professionals who spend their time and billions of dollars figuring out how to get consumers to buy the latest car or embrace the next mobile phone. Imagine if we could get these same folks to apply their energy and talent toward convincing consumers to embrace a more sustainable way of life."

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Finding a New Way to Live - Innovation Isn't Enough to Spark a Clean-Energy Revolution

NYT: "a way of life he didn’t like"

Sadly, this quote come from Kareem Fahim's article, "New Hate-Crime Murder Trial, This Time in Brooklyn", in the New York Times. Gay or not, it shows how homophobia and any other kind of prejudice can be destructive to all people, when there are those who violently act out merely because of perceptions (in this case misperceptions).

"“He didn’t like what they looked like,” the prosecutor added. “He didn’t like that they were Hispanic. From his eyes, it appeared they were a gay couple, a way of life he didn’t like and wasn’t going to tolerate.”"

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New Hate-Crime Murder Trial, This Time in Brooklyn

CNET News: "The Second Life way of life..."

So this one comes from CNET News, specifically from Caroline McCarthy's article, "Is Foursquare's growth boxed in?" Now I've actually, tentatively, used Foursquare, although what you call a place isn't always what it might be registered as on the site.

It's definitely an interesting concept despite having very little to do with the game I remember playing as a kid. Anyway, interesting article:

"The Second Life way of life--owning a virtual home, spending real money furnishing it, socializing in a 3D fantasy world bursting with oddball characters who've reinvented themselves into whole new species with purple skin or the ability to fly--didn't prove to be what the Web wanted. And I'm not sure they all want to be earning "Douchebag" badges and stealing the mayorships of their local Chinese take-out restaurants either. If this remains the basis of Foursquare and its business model, which looks to use the same mechanics with advertisers and sponsors, its ultimate reach could be limited."

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Is Foursquare's growth boxed in?

JournalNow.com: "for research into our contemporary way of life"

This selection comes from Marsha Mercer's piece at JournalNow.com, "Products of Twitter, no passing fad, are now being recorded for posterity by the Library of Congress Tweeting Into History". It's interesting because it comments on a recent decision by the Library of Congress to officially archive every Tweet.

"It's startling to think that the Library of Congress' stamp of approval on Twitter, Justin Bieber and all, may be as significant in the 21st century as preserving the library of Thomas Jefferson was in the 19th. Jefferson gave his leather-bound volumes to rebuild the collection after British troops set fire to the Capitol.

Here's Librarian of Congress James H. Billington: "The Twitter digital archive has extraordinary potential for research into our contemporary way of life."

Tweets, he said, provide "detailed evidence about how technology-based social networks form and evolve over time. The collection also documents a remarkable range of social trends.""

By the way, if you're on twitter, you can follow me at AWayofLife0 or JStreetJr. You can also follow a couple of others I'm involved with, Plate 2 Stage & DC PAL.

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Products of Twitter, no passing fad, are now being recorded for posterity by the Library of Congress Tweeting Into History

News-Leader.com: "yoga is a way of life"

This quote comes from News-Leader.com, based in Springfield, Missouri. The article is "Yoga for better health and life", by Linda Leicht.

"The goal of the Teach to Inspire Foundation is to allow students in the center's instructor courses to practice the art of serving as well as the techniques of yoga."I believe that Beth's vision makes so much sense," says Marilyn Gilmore, chair of the foundation's board of directors. "For me, yoga is a way of life.""

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Yoga for better health and life

Free PC Guides: "The Hippie way of life"

Today's quite comes from another blog, Free PC Guides. While the entry isn't attributed to one particular author, you can learn a bit about the authors here.

"The Hippie way of life definitely explores and even promotes cultural diversity. And as I mentioned in a previous article about how the lack of network neutrality is the new racism, the Web is so great, that it can teach people around the world how to collaborate and connect, without discriminating based on religion, culture and ethnic prejudices."

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The Web Promotes A Hippie Way Of Life. And I Am Glad It Does

WSJ: "Remorse as a way of life"

Like the selection from the 7th, today's entry does not have AWoL in the body, but just the subject of the piece. It's actually a book review by Brendan Simms, "Remorse as a way of life", from the Wall Street Journal, of Pascal Bruckner's "The Tyranny of Guilt". Like before, here's the first paragraph (of the review):

"Over the years, historians and political scientists, studying the ways in which societies organize themselves, have come up with a range of categories to describe the state itself: the "feudal state," for instance, or the "garrison state," or, more recently, the "knowledge state." Properly applied, such labels can be a useful way of understanding the character of a nation or society at a particular historical moment."

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Remorse as a way of life