From Barbara: Sergio Tripi publishes the best Good Positive News and this issue contains information about the conference and award Robert is to receive in October.
Love, Barbara
Good News Agency
Weekly - Year VI, number 11 - 9 September 2005
Managing Editor: Sergio Tripi, Ph. D.
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Good News Agency carries positive and constructive news from all over the world relating to voluntary work, the work of the United Nations, non governmental organizations, and institutions engaged in improving the quality of life – news that doesn’t “burn out� in the space of a day. Editorial research by Fabio Gatti. Good News Agency is published in English on one Friday and in Italian the next. It is distributed free of charge through Internet to the editorial offices of more than 3,700 media in 48 countries, as well as to 2,800 NGO and service associations.
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2nd Annual GlobalMind Change Forum - September 23-25
A Positive and Sustainable Future through Business
The second annual Global MindChange Forum sponsored by the World Business Academy will take place at the Fess Parker Resort in Santa Barbara California. This year's Forum will reveal and support opportunities which will enable business leaders to create business, societal, and personal prosperity as a response to a world increasingly beset by budget and trade deficits, ethical lapses, rising interest rates, escalating oil prices, and international turmoil.
Featured speakers at the Global Mindchange Forum will be Ray Anderson, Chairman , Interface, Inc.; leading advocate of Mind/Body Medicine, Deepak Chopra; Economist Hazel Henderson Ph.D; Jeffery Hollender, President and CEO of Seventh Generation; and George Zimmer, CEO of the Men’s Wearhouse which has again made Fortune’s 100 best companies to work for in 2005.
This year the Humanitarian Award is being presented to Dr. Robert Muller, cofounder of the United Nations University for Peace in Costa Rica. For 40 years, Robert worked behind the scenes at the United Nations in support of world peace and happiness. He ultimately achieved the post of assistant secretary general. In honor of the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Robert’s book, Most of all They Taught Me Happiness, is being republished. Conference speaker, Deepak Chopra, author of The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success says: "Robert shows how to bring ourselves to our highest bliss." Visit www.RobertMuller.org for more information.
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