Category: Living Treasures
Living Treasures: 56 Years of Entertainment, Dozens of Causes, One Really Cool Guy – Clint Eastwood
By: Rachel Schaeffer Imagine this year marks your 81st birthday. See yourself sharp as a whip, continuously learning, and contributing meaningfully to the world. Know that you are inspiring people across the globe to contemplate uncomfortable world events and situations. You’re a real Renaissance person: a golf enthusiast, talented jazz pianist and composer, helicopter pilot, [...]
Living Treasures: From Prisoner to President to Peacemaker – Nelson Mandela
By: Rachel Schaeffer – Living Treasures Columnist for Positive Impact Magazine How can a prison number be used to create hope for the millions of people suffering from HIV/AIDS? When human rights activist Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for his efforts to end apartheid, he was given identification number 46664 (pronounced four double six, six four) [...]
Robert Redford–Shining Star for the Environment
By: Rachel Schaeffer – Columnist for Living Treasures This past October, Robert Redford was knighted in the Legion of Honor, France’s highest cultural honor. The elite recognition of merit recognizes not only military, but also cultural, scientific, or social contributions of people from any nationality. In a ceremony at the Paris presidential palace, French President [...]
David Gershon—Living the Possible – Transformation
By: Rachel Schaeffer – Blog #3 Secondly, what are the leverage points? They’re all very carefully “screened,” if you will, to see where I can make the biggest impact, where the biggest needs are, and then designing a strategy that could actually work if gone to scale. A key principle in Social Change 2.0 is [...]
David Gershon—Living the Possible – Change
By: Rachel Schaeffer – Blog #2 First, how do you really make change happen—like what does it really take at all levels to be successful no matter what kind of change you want to make to improve society. There are so many needs and so many aspects of society that need to change—almost every aspect. [...]
David Gershon—Living the Possible
By: Rachel Schaeffer David Gershon has spent his lifetime achieving not only his dreams, but also supporting and inspiring millions of others to achieve theirs. David is the author of eleven books, including the 2009 award-winning Social Change 2.0: A Blueprint for Reinventing Our World. His other books include Low Carbon Diet: A 30 Day [...]
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