Downtown Angels: Local activist completes MonOrchid mural raising awareness for homelessness

Originally published on Downtown Devil on February 5, 2016 By Holly Bernstein. “My daughter has a name and now she’s gone.” After receiving this Facebook message from a mother whose homeless daughter was murdered while living on the street, homelessness activist Jon Linton used social media to raise money to…

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French supermarkets banned from throwing away and spoiling unsold food

Originally published on INDEPENDENT.co.uk on February 5, 2016 By Matt Payton. ‘Supermarkets will be obliged to sign a donation deal with charities’ Supermarkets in France have been banned from throwing away or spoiling unsold food by law. The stores are now required to donate unwanted food to charities and food…

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You are Responsible for You: autonomy, automaticity, and change

Originally published on DuffMcDuffee.com By Duff McDuffee No one else “causes” your thoughts, feelings, or behaviors. This is an impoverished model of reality. In this cause-effect model, people do things and you have a response. That’s the whole model. There are no choice points in this model. You are a…

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The Dangerous Myth of the Bad Kid

Originally published on the Huffington Post on January 20, 2016 by Dani Bostick. It’s the second day of kindergarten and Sarah is sitting on the rug, playing with a new classmate’s hair. It’s fantastic hair, wild and curly. The teacher snaps at her, “Stop it!” Sarah is also sitting with…

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