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	<title>Mind Petals: Ideas to change the world</title>
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		<title>Mind Petals Plastic Bags Kill Campaign Continues</title>
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A few weeks back on April 29th, we had a Mind Petals Gathering at the Gramstand Cafe in the East Village. The night was focused primarily on plastic bag pollution, as I gave a discussion on the pollution / death factors of plastic bags.
We had some powerful discussion from everyone that attended. The night was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mindpetals.com/blog/2008/05/mind-petals-plastic-bags-kill-campaign-continues/</link>
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		<title>Insight from Watching a Crow being Mobbed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sitting in my garden yesterday, I saw an amazing event. Something large and black seemed to have fallen in the pine tree that sits on the side of my garden near the fence. When I looked up, it was a very large black crow at least three times the size of most the birds I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mindpetals.com/blog/2008/05/insight-from-watching-a-crow-being-mobbed/</link>
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		<title>Plastic Bags Kill (part 3)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part 3 of the &#8220;Plastic Bags Kill&#8221; discussion. The facts of the matter is that people honestly don&#8217;t know about plastic bag pollution. It&#8217;s my hope that these discussions will have educated you and lead to you making better decisions when going to the store and not consuming plastic bags, opting to bring your own [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mindpetals.com/blog/2008/05/plastic-bags-kill-part-3/</link>
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		<title>Plastic Bags Kill (part 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is part 2 of my discussion on plastic bag pollution. Have you stopped using plastic bags yet?? 




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		<link>http://mindpetals.com/blog/2008/05/plastic-bags-kill-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Plastic Bags Kill (part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Plastic bags are one of the most deadliest weapons of pollution in the world. Killing over 1 million birds per year and over 100,000 marine animals such as turtles, seals, and dolphins, plastic bag consumption at your local stores is one of the worst things that you can do for the environment. Please make the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mindpetals.com/blog/2008/05/plastic-bags-kill-part-1/</link>
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		<title>GIAS Video - Green Inspirational Acts of Spirituality</title>
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GIAS is the philosophy behind Mind Petals, our driving force. It&#8217;s the culmination of having compassion for all living things, including all animals and our environment; inspiring the world by planting as many ideas (seeds) as possible into the minds of others to bring about positive change; standing up and taking action for what you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mindpetals.com/blog/2008/05/gias-video-green-inspirational-acts-of-spirituality/</link>
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		<title>Let the Universe be your University</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Real learning takes place outside of the classroom. The greatest teacher in the world is the Universe. As Khalik said in this clip, &#8220;the universe is your university.&#8221; I think that&#8217;s so true. I&#8217;ve learned more in my life in the past 2 years &#8220;after&#8221; graduating from college, than, seriously, over a decade in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mindpetals.com/blog/2008/04/let-the-universe-be-your-university/</link>
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		<title>The Drug and Spirit Connection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Khalik Allah and I  speak about the effects of plants and drugs on your body and share real experiences with you.




Drugs &#8212; synthetic and naturally derived from plants &#8212; have various impacts on your mind, body, and spirit. Most prescription drugs serve to only alleviate and subdue the symptoms and have little to no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mindpetals.com/blog/2008/04/the-drug-and-spirit-connection/</link>
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		<title>Man vs. Nature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The destruction of the rain forest and the ancient redwoods of Northern California. The aggressive and careless consumption of animals. The poor and clumsy usage of technology without respect for the environment. The greed to attain material riches at the expense of natural resources. The blind burning of fossil fuels to increase our corporate bottom-lines. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mindpetals.com/blog/2008/04/man-vs-nature/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Remain A Slave to Fear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fear is such an interesting thing. Something so powerful, in fact, that it can easily determine the course of our entire lives &#8212; the actions we take, the thoughts we think, and the decisions we make.
Fear can be a scary beast that prevents us from growing and prospering in new directions of life. Fear isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mindpetals.com/blog/2008/04/dont-remain-a-slave-to-fear/</link>
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