In a previous article, I mentioned the interesting confession of an educator friend who has years of experience in teaching, and only at the best schools.
“Usually,” my friend had lamented with a big sigh, “a small child arrives for his first day of school with an excellent self-imag…
One man’s single-minded determination built this city on a swamp, on territory claimed by the enemy. Years later, Hitler decreed it should be wiped off the face of the earth. The name of the city? St. Petersburg, Russia’s Window on Europe, Venice of the North, City of Light, is quite simply the…
What does it mean to look at the Earth as you would your own body?
We hear it said that the rain forests are the lungs of the world, oxygenating the air that we breathe.
Our body is made of about 70% water and the planet’s surface is covered with about the same area as water. The wea…