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This week, we are changing views.

Watching the full moon rise yesterday, we realized that this is the first full moon of the year and it is the last full moon of the year -- yet is the same moon rising.

This got us to thinking about how we see things.

People who learn to manage with little money often have time to do what they love. People with lots of money often have no free time, even when managing their money well.

An unhealthy skinny girl will not feel better regardless of how many compliments or modelling offers she receives.

Circumstances are largely defined by our view of them.

The same simple shack is loving home to a family living in poverty and an eyesore to a fighting family living in luxury.

High oil costs lead to increasing costs. High oil costs lead to increasing conservation activities ... and more oil later.

How we feel is a direct reflection of our personal choices.

A personal dance instructor can feel more successful than the CEO of a global dance corporation.

Climbing above cultural norms and society rules and ideas of normal, we begin to see beyond our own beliefs and recognize when we are imposing them on others whose situations are nothing like our own. We have much to gain by exploring the options to our habitual choices.

There are many ways to look at exercise, vaccinations and immunity, respiratory issues, climate change, learning, companions, balance, astrology, hikes, money, world peace, fear and love.

Looking beyond our own definition of happy, we might just see happiness all around us.

We might even find ancient solutions to our modern challenges.

How do you see your situation a little differently today ?

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Community Calendar

Golden Rules

Simplified Wild Goose Qigong Course

Vaccinations - Yes or No?

Enneagram the Art of Breathing

Green Drinks : Climate Change Progress

Nutrition Therapy for Learning Challenges

SPCA Helpers Program

Nutrition Balancing for Health

Mayan Astrology

Green Power Hike

Transforming Our Relationship To Money

World Peace Meditation

Future Without Fear

Acupressure for Respiratory Issues

What's Love Got To Do With It?

Cleanse/Detox During the Festive Season

Immunity Boosting for Children and Adults

Introduction to Ascension

Lunar New Year's Day


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Marketplace

Local Creatives at Pop Up Store - January 9-22

Bazaar features fashion design, lifestyle goods and accessories

Join studio0o as we transform our 1,100 square foot atelier into a Pop Up Store from Jan 9 to 22. Our bazaar will showcase the local talents of local designers in fashion design, (special crafted t-shirts, multi-facet ready-to-wear, hip casual wear), lifestyle goods (handcrafted pottery and specially sourced items) and accessories (handcrafted FELT art creations, rings/pins/chains). Come and support these creations and goods at the tail end of the rabbit year before the dragon roars in. studio0o is shared by Ah Yuen and Wilson Chik - a gathering place for work, play and creation. Pop Up Store is open 12–8pm at 805, 8/F, Block B, Wing Kut Industrial Building, 608 Castle Peak Road, Lai Chi Kok, Kowloon.

ENQUIRIES :  Wilson Chik | TEL : +852 3483 1973

POSTED : 01-Sep-11


Bytes

Solar power can help the billion people without electricity (Carl Pope at the Guardian - 5 January 2012)

Ironically, the world's poorest can best afford the most sophisticated lighting

India's Drug Trials Fuel Consent Controversy (Rama Lakshmi at The Washington Post - 2 January 2012)

1,700 people died in clinical drug trials between 2007 and 2010 while 2010 trials generated $300 million of business for India

Need a New Kidney? Check out Facebook (Donna Gordon Blankinship at The Associated Press - 1 January 2012)

More people are using social media sites like Facebook, Craigslist to find transplant organs

US has replaced 100-watt bulb with halogen and other technologies (David Shaffer at Star Tribune - 1 January 2012)

The incandescent bulb converts only 10 percent of the energy to light and the rest is lost as heat

Recycling - a lesson from Japan (Justin McCurry at The Guardian - 29 December 2011)

At 77%, Japan's plastic recycling rate is about twice that of the UK and well above the 20% figure for the US

'Secret' Environment Canada presentation warns of oilsands' impact on habitat (Mike De Souza at Postmedia News - 22 December 2011)

Contamination of a major western Canadian river basin from oilsands operations is high-profile concern for downstream communities and wildlife

Learning from nature - Sony's bio battery turns waste paper into electricity (BBC - 21 December 2011)

Paper-powered battery generates electricity by turning shredded paper into sugar which in turn is used as fuel

Low-carbon and sustainable model of development an ongoing process in HK (Hong Kong Monitor - December, 2011)

Hong Kong sets target of reducing carbon intensity by 50 - 60 per cent by 2020 from 2005 levels

Act

Find out more about government plans for the Hong Kong Super-Incinerator

Create a public policy not to serve shark products at official Hong Kong functions

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Community Calendar

General ... more

January 10 7:30pm > Golden Rules

January 11 7:30pm > Green Drinks : COP17 - Climate Change Progress

January 12 11am-1pm > SPCA Helpers Education and Learning Program

January 14 > Green Power Hike

January 23 > Lunar New Year's Day

January 23 7:39am > New Moon

January 24 > The second day of the Lunar New Year

January 25 > The third day of the Lunar New Year

Personal ... more

January 11 12-1pm > Simplified Wild Goose Qigong Course

January 11 7-8:30pm > Vaccinations - Yes or No?

January 11 7:30-9:30pm > Nutrition and Systemic Therapy for Learning Challenges

January 13 12:30-2pm > Nutrition Balancing to Fine-Tune your Health with Martyn and Heather Chilvers

January 17 10am-12:30pm > Acupressure for Respiratory Issues

January 18 10am-noon > Cleanse/Detox During the Festive Season

January 18 7-8:30pm > Immunity Boosting for Children and Adults

Light ... more

January 11 7-9pm > Enneagram the Art of Breathing

January 13 7:15-9:45pm > Mayan Astrology

January 14 7:30-10pm > Transforming Our Relationship To Money & Cashflow

January 15 10-11am > World Peace Meditation

January 16 11:30am-1pm > Future Without Fear with Charlie Hogg

January 17 8-10pm > What's Love Got To Do With It? with Lama Marut

January 19 7-8pm > Introduction to Ascension

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Nikki Green - Psychotherapy, counseling, relationship, marital and family therapy

Counseling Psychology:Re-authoring Lives - Personal counseling, coaching, change facilitation

Red Doors - Individual and group coaching; professional facilitator and certified labyrinth builder

Ecovision Asia Ltd - Environmental educational programs and public-awareness campaigns

The Candle Company - Candles, essential oils, reed diffusers, candle holders and home accessories


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