Positive News : Edition XXIII

Woman’s Secret Santa Turns Out To Be Bill Gates, He Sends Her 37 Kgs Of Gifts

27dec2019bill-gates1-e1577362858671I hate playing Secret Santa. You know why? Because my friends are just the worst who think it is funny to gift me a bar of soap for Christmas. I’m not even kidding! But do you know who absolutely loves Secret Santa and ended up receiving THE BEST gifts ever? A woman named Shelby whose Secret Santa ended up being Co-Founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates!

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That’s a wrap: how brands are cutting down on plastic packaging

27dec2019plasticeliminationWith plastic pollution having exploded in public awareness, companies are having to urgently rethink how they package their products. As the gift-giving season approaches, we find out how some brands are leading the way with sustainable packaging, and we share some tips to help you reduce your impact at Christmas too

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Crowdfunding bid to tackle elitism in journalism by helping media interns

The PressPad social enterprise matches unpaid media interns with mentors who can offer them free places to stay. Now, the team is more than halfway toward a £30,000 fundraising target to expand its work

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The Czech priest who brought a village back to life

High in the Eagle mountains of the Czech Republic is a village with a difference: 80 per cent of its residents have a disability. A charismatic priest turned the once-abandoned spot into a community for some of the country’s most marginalised citizens

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Confused Between Eco-Friendly, Sustainable, Natural? Here’s What the Terms Mean

A sustainable lifestyle is all about being responsible & conscious of your choice. Let’s begin the journey with understanding the different terms associated with it

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Zen Fable : Truths are many

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Once there was a monk who specialized in the Buddhist precepts, and he kept to them all his life. Once when he was walking at night, he stepped on something. It made a squishing sound, and he imagined he had stepped on an egg-bearing frog.

This caused him no end of alarm and regret, in view of the Buddhist precept against taking life, and when he finally went to sleep that night he dreamed that hundreds of frogs came demanding his life.

The monk was terribly upset, but when morning came he looked and found that what he stepped on was an overripe eggplant. At that moment his feeling of uncertainty suddenly stopped, and for the first time he realized the meaning of the saying that “there is no objective world.” Then he finally knew how to practice Zen.

Interpretation

We all have our own versions of truth as our perspectives are different. We need to understand this and be accepting of all versions amicably.

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