Jon Gomm – Passionflower
“This song is about I plant a grew in my 10-feet-square backyard in the Leeds inner city. I put the seeds in a tiny tub, but it grew like a Roald Dahl story until it took over the whole yard, then one day the sun shone extra hard and 100 flowers all went “Pop!”. It was amazing, so I wrote a song for it.” – Jon Gomm
This song can be downloaded from jongomm store and a percentage of all proceeds go to The Happy House children’s home in Watamu, Kenya. http://www.childrenofwatamu.net/
GOOD Article-Make Shoes in A Place Full of So Much Poverty and Corruption?
‘Why or how could anyone want to make shoes in a place full of so much poverty and corruption?’
That’s the question many people asked Canadian Tal Dehtiar when he founded Oliberté Footwear, the first company to make premium shoes in Africa using African materials and explicitly linking shoes sold by Western retailers to job creation on the continent. Dehtiar started the Toronto-based company in 2009, and sales increased from a mere 200 pairs initially to 10,000 in 2011. He projects sales of between 20,000 and 25,000 this year.
More on this article on GOOD.
Oh, The places You’ll Go 2012!
Based on Dr. Seuss’s final book before his death, this is a story about life’s ups and downs, told by the people of Burning Man 2011. To buy the book here.
Christmas In Diverse City
Christmas is almost coming everyone! Let us be blessed this year all through!~
Change For A Dollar
Is he asking for Change, or is he asking for CHANGE?
Follow a man as he affects multiple peoples’ lives with just one dollar, proving that it doesn’t take much to be the change in someone’s life. Make a positive change in someone’s life.
Happy Thanksgiving Day!
For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
-R.W. Emerson-
A Little Piece of Paradise
The Orchid Man is one of the outreach activities organised to promote the 20th World Orchid Conference World Orchid Show. Unsuspecting visitors waiting at the taxi stand got some laughs when they were ‘punked’ by the 6-foot tall Orchid Man. Check out the ‘Punked by Orchid Man’ funny video below:
Another Weekend.
For those XFactorUSA addict as much as I do, this is a must see Astrooo! 
Weekend.
Ravaged Rice Fields Transformation
A fantastic project at the recent Tokyo Fashion Week, and is already harvesting results, aims at turning damaged lands in the Sendai area into fertile grounds for fashion. In the tsunami the rice paddies in these areas were not only destroyed, but left with high concentration levels of saline (NaCl, more commonly known as salt).
When the salt concentration level in the soil exceeds 0.2% it is impossible to grow rice on it, but cotton can grow on soil with 0.5% to 0.6% salt concentration. The attempt of the Tohoku Cotton Project aims to create long term employment for the rice farmers by planting cotton crops on what used to be rice farms before the disaster. The cotton seeds were provided to affected farms and Taishoboseki buys up the cotton crops to spin them.
Other apparel brands are also delivering their message “Don’t forget Tohoku! We are still alive!” with the vision of seeing in the near future a sea of white cotton fields that spread far and wide all over the Sendai area and more importantly give residents employment and a new sustainable lifestyle.