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A Peacewalker Follows Her Dreams

Audri Scott Williams describes herself as a mother, a grandmother, a peacewalker, and a lover; also as a human rights activist and a vision- keeper. The vision she keeps led her to create the Trail of DreamsAncestral Journey, a walk from Pennsylvania to Georgia in 2000 and then to Ghana in 2002. Between 2005 and 2009, she started the Trail of Dreams World Peace Walk. Now she is preparing to launch the 13 Moon City Tour that will end in Washington, DC, late in 2011.

Café Gives Laptops a Rest

NORTH OAKLAND, CA - Intending to keep the Actual Cafe an actual cafe, owner Sal Bednarz embarked upon a monthlong experiment of no computer use on weekends during February. Sal wanted to create the kind of social atmosphere that existed before wireless internet and mobile computers by inviting people to step away from their Facebook profiles and connect face-to-face. “It’s important to me to have a place that’s not just about sitting around and studying and surfing the web on a laptop,” he said.

Cuba First to Help Haiti
After the quake struck this past winter, Haiti's first medical aid came from Cuba which played a major role in treating the earthquake victims. The Cuban team coordinator in Haiti, Dr Carlos Alberto Garcia, says the Cuban doctors, nurses and other health personnel have been working non-stop, day and night, with operating rooms open eighteen hours a day. International Celebration of Grandmothers P13 CORK, Ireland - International Grandmothers’ Day is to be celebrated in 132 countries on 25th April.

International Celebration of Grandmothers

CORK, Ireland – International Grandmothers’ Day is to be celebrated in 132 countries on 25th April. The event was established last year by Darina Allen, renowned Irish chef and founder of Ballymaloe Cookery School. A grandmother of six, Darina wanted to promote inter-generational exchange, the passing on of traditional wisdom and the fundamental ‘slow food’ values of sharing and generosity.

Chemical Regulations: Helping Us and the Economy

A European-led revolution in chemical regulation now requires that thousands of chemicals used in electronics, automobiles, toys and cosmetics be assessed for their potentially toxic effects. It is hopeful to know that multinational companies are adapting to the stricter European standards of safety for consumer products based on the notion that regulation is actually good for business.