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World Harmony September 21 Brings International Peace Day
Since its inception in 1981 at the United Nations, Peace Day has marked personal and planetary progress toward peace. Each year, events commemorating and celebrating peace involve millions of people through- out the world. This year’s 30th anniversary theme, Make Your Voice Heard, pays tribute to the many civil society activists that have lent the strength of their imagination to the institution of peace. Anyone can celebrate Peace Day. It can be as simple as lighting a candle at noon and just sitting in silent meditation. Or, it may evolve into engaging co-workers, organizations, communities or local government in a larger event. The impact of coming together for one day of peace is immense. The International Day of Peace is also a Day of Ceasefire—both personal
and political. Why not take this opportunity to make peace in your own relation- ships as a start to positively influencing the larger conflicts of our time, by holding participants kindly in your thoughts? Imagine what a whole day of ceasefire could mean to humankind.
Visit
InternationalDayOfPeace.org.
Sea Power Tidal Turbines on the Way
Harnessing the power of tidal currents to produce electricity may seem like a new idea, but President Franklin D. Roosevelt started the first U.S. govern- ment test project in Eastport, Maine. The site sits across from Canada’s Nova Scotia on the American side of the Bay of Fundy, known for its tremendous tides. “The tides are about as reliable
as anything in nature, so you can pre-
dict years in advance how much power you will have at a given time—that’s a great advantage,” says Paul Jacobson, Ph.D., ocean energy leader of the Electric Power Research Institute. New tidal technologies are inspired by wind turbines and are mounted on
the seafloor, where they slowly spin in the current, out of sight. Ongoing tests by the University of Maine suggest no effect on marine life, which seem to avoid the devices. Several companies are in the hunt to be the industry pioneer, but the Maine- based Ocean Renewable Power Company already has plans to deploy a full-scale 150-kilowatt unit, the first tidal device to be connected to a U.S. electrical grid, off of Eastport later this year. They expect to add more units by 2015, to initially yield a total of five megawatts of current, enough to power about 4,000 homes.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Youth Perspective Religious Leaders Out of Touch with Sexuality
Andrew Yip, Ph.D., lead author of a new report, Religion, Youth and Sexuality, a multi-faith study by sociologists from Nottingham and Nottingham Trent uni- versities, in England, says that young
people are finding it difficult to recon- cile their religion with their sexuality. Nearly 700 students ages 18 through 25 were interviewed. More than 72
percent of them practice six different traditions: Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism or a mixed faith. The study found that most feel that
their religion is a positive force in their lives, but that religious leaders are out of touch with issues of sexuality. “There are young people that are finding it enormously difficult to combine their religion with their sexuality, especially if they are lesbian or gay,” says Sarah-Jane Page, Ph.D., a colleague of Yip. Almost a third of
the young adults interviewed believe that celibacy is fulfilling, with the per- centage of men leading that of women. More than 83 percent support the idea of monogamous relationships, with slightly more women than men valuing it, according to Yip.
Source: The Guardian
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