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 (Stock photo/Roberto Adrian) Many in the West, and beyond, are waking up - to what they've spent, what they owe and what they've lost in the process. Many are choosing hope over fear.
Where This Economic Wake-Up Call Might Take Us
FEBRUARY 03, 2009Eazibee, HappyNews ColumnistFollowing up on yesterday's theme, trying to find some silver linings in current economic news, I stumbled across this piece on the Huffington Post website. It's an opinion piece, on the theme of America's "awakening". But it's not just America, of course. Many in the West, and beyond, are waking up - to what they've spent, what they owe and what they've lost in the process. The latter is an interesting theme - one that the author of the Huffington Post column says she's going to pursue in the weeks to come. The big question of course is whether and how we can recover what we've lost, find meaning beyond consumerism and achieve a more sustainable lifestyle. At the end of the day, we each have to answer that for ourselves...
Read the story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-cara-barker/choosing-hope-over-fear_b_161385.html
http://reasonstobehopeful.blogspot.com/2009/01/where-this-economic-wake-up-call-might.html
Eazibee hails from the UK but now lives in New York, where she works as a consultant - focused on health and environmental issues in developing countries - alongside raising a young family. She devotes any free time she has left to screenwriting and blogging. Reasons to be Hopeful is her principal blog, which she started in October 2007 in an effort to counter the negativity dominating the mainstream newswires. She aims to capture good news from across the world, reflecting the positive experiences of many different communities. Please feel free to send any good stories you come across to eazibee(at)gmail.com.
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