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99 Good News Stories You Probably Didn’t Hear About in 2018

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The world didn’t fall apart this year. You were just getting your news from the wrong places.

Image credit: Our Ocean 2018

[reposted from our friends at FutureCrunch]
For the last 12 months, the global media has been focused on a lot of bad news. But there were other things happening out there too: conservation successes, huge wins for global health, more peace and tolerance, less war and violence, rising living standards, some big clean energy milestones, and a quiet turning of the tide in the fight against plastic. Stories of human progress, that didn’t make it into the evening broadcasts, or onto your social media feeds.

We spent the year collecting them, in our ongoing mission to stop the fear virus in its tracks.

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Lucidity Festival 2019 – Moon’s Eye View

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If you do only one festival in 2019 – This is the One!

With the Rising Dawn in 2018, the Sun illuminated our realization that the first six years of Lucidity were a dream sequence… Now in 2019, we step into Moon’s Eye View, our 8th Chapter. An opportunity for us to see a fuller, broader perspective – from outside of our limited, personal view point.
https://lucidityfestival.com/

Director of Photography: Colby Angelos / Angelos Media
Produced by: Megan Stone, Jonah Haas & Stazia Tippets
Written by: Noah Crowe
Edited by: Colby Angelos & Ruby Rose Foster
Voice: Priya Deepika Music
Supporting Footage: Follow Media Studios, Nicholas Bradford Imagery, Marisa Pfenning Photography, Aaron Cyrus Dorr Film & Photography, Sherman Wellons, Aline Kras Images, Transformational Eye, Brie’Ana Breeze Photography & Media, Anna Katarina

Envision’s Eco Initiatives

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Envision Festival is coming right up! Here’s a beautiful article about the Eco aspects of this greatly loved festival”

“We pride ourselves in the way we take care of our environment at Envision Festival, keeping the mindset at all times to take initiative to help grow and sustain our ecosystem. Now on the blog, Envision Eco Initiatives, highlighting exactly what we do each year to uphold our environmental standards. 🌿”

Envision Eco Initiatives

A Sustainable Environment: Envision Festival 2019

Envision Festival is rooted in deep environmental standards that grow past a simple mindset and intentionally blossom into our surrounding ecosystem; all while supporting surrounding communities, teaching greener approaches and simultaneously throwing an epic party. This year, we have been nominated for “Outstanding Green Event of 2018” at 2018 FestX Awards, and we are honored to uphold such a title and to be recognized for our environmentally conscious initiatives.

What is environmental sustainability and why is it important? …..

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The Earthdance Global Synchronized Prayer for Peace

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The Earthdance Global Festival for Peace
Earthdance International – Earthdance.org:
Saturday September 22, 2018
Held in 150 cities in 50 countries simultaneously
photo above – Earthdance Hungary

YOU ARE INVITED to participate in the Earthdance Worldwide Synchronized Peace Prayer – a four minute dance for peace held simultaneously at events around the globe and also live broadcast on YouTube so that folks at home can participate alone or in small groups, dinner parties and small gatherings wherever YOU are.

The Prayer for Peace is an incredible experience of global unity – to be in a prayer for peace, with an entire attendance at a festival and at the same time word for word in unison with festivals around the globe is nothing short of extraordinary and I urge you to join in. The feeling if connection is indescribable.

LIVE BROADCAST LINK HERE, but will not be live until the time of the prayer.
BOOKMARK IT NOW 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ZD24w6eGo

DOWNLOAD THE RECORDING HERE:
http://www.earthdance.org/linkup/

US Coastal times are – 8pm ET, 5pm PST – see Earthdance International for other time zones.
CLOCK HERE – https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock

If you want to Attend An Event near  you, you can begin on the global map here, though many smaller peace organizations in your area will have local events as well:
http://www.earthdance.org/events/category/ed2018/

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