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Giulia Rozzi
June 17, 2008 | 2:25 pm EST
The TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is a compilation of the week’s most notable stories from our entertainment-meets-social-action blogging network. Check out some of our most popular stories of the week, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites!
Nicole Hughes:
U.S. Media Ignores Link Between Midwest Floods and Global Warming
Top 10 Houseplants for Removing Indoor Air Pollution
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Dubai to Build Rotating Positive Energy Tower
Bioethicist Peter Singer Tackles World Food Shortage
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Jon Popham:
Americacorps Workers Assist Flood Ravaged Town
Australians “Out-Fat” Americans
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Giulia Rozzi:
Oprah Recommends “A New Earth”
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Gina Telaroli:
Yup, I’m a sucker for Oprah recommended reading.
I just finished reading A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. I usually take forever to finish a book, but this book captured my interest so strongly that I breezed through this book in just one week (I get very proud when I actually read a whole book).
The line “awaken to your life’s purpose” on the book’s cover led me to think this book was a guide to help me better figure out my career goals. And this book did help me with career goals, but not in a direct way. Instead the book explores our ego and how collectively our ego’s shape the world. He focuses on the notion of “being” rather than “doing” and how this presence allows to discover our true life purpose. I can’t really explain this book in one blog post. Actually I can’t really explain this book at all, all I can say is it’s calmed me down while also making my head spin (in good way). I read the final page with a smile on my face excited to incorporate Tolle’s advice into my life. That was 10 days ago and so far, so good.
Here’s how the book’s site explains things: Humanity now, perhaps more than in any previous time, has an opportunity to create a new, saner, more loving world. This will involve a radical inner leap from the current egoic
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