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The GoodLetter Thursday, December 12, 2002
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Holiday Card Offer: Be good and be mine
Thanks to all of you who have taken advantage of our special holiday card offer. You may know that through the end of the year, if you order a pack of GoodThings holiday cards from the top row of cards (see below), you'll get the GoodThings Valentine's Day card below it as a free bonus. Simplify your life and your card buying -- send a few GoodThings holiday cards this year and get a unique Valentine's Day card well in advance. Please remember -- we cannot guarantee shipment in time for Christmas for orders placed after December 13. And don't forget -- every card you send helps us continue to foster awareness of progressive actions and ideas around the world. (We print all our cards on recycled paper using soy ink.)
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This Week's Feature
Announcing FAVORITE GOODTHINGS 2002
by the GoodThings Team
With the announcement of our annual list of ideas, actions, and organizations creating a better world, we offer a much-needed reminder of all the inspiring "goodthings" that happened during a tumultuous 2002.
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Dear GoodLetter readers,
Once again, we have the great pleasure of announcing our annual list of the positive and constructive ideas, actions, and organizations that, in 2002, captured our imaginations -- and yours, the good readers of our little weekly e-magazine, The GoodLetter. This is the second year we've asked for your help with our Favorite GoodThings campaign by nominating your favorite people, programs, and pursuits that have had a positive impact on the world. Thanks to all of you who have weighed in -- you've told us about your favorite GoodLetters from the past year and, of course, you've shared fresh ideas that were new to us. We've relished the process of carefully considering each and every one of them. And while we wish there were room for every nomination among our honorees, we think we've come up with a worthy Favorite GoodThings 2002 list of honorees, each representing an issue or an idea that we hold dear and that we believe reflects not only the spirit of GoodThings and The GoodLetter but also humanity at its best.
Check out the twenty Favorite GoodThings 2002 categories below, and be sure to click the links to our Web site to learn more about each of the honorees and how you can connect with them. Of course, if you'd prefer to see them all at once, all in one place, just click this link: www.goodthings.com/2002favorites
As ever, the world seems to grow increasingly complicated, even frightening. We like to believe that these twenty examples represent some -- but, by no means, all! -- of the best of what the world has to offer. Remember, these are simply "favorites" -- yours and ours -- and we would never consider this an absolute "best of" list that would take away from the other amazing efforts to make the world a better place. We hope you'll use this list as a resource guide or launching pad to help you get involved and start 2003 on a positive, action-oriented foot.
Thanks so much for supporting us here at GoodThings. Enjoy our Favorite GoodThings for 2002 and the rest of your holiday season.
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:: Favorite Way to Make Waves
Oceana
:: Favorite Glimpses of Hope
The Promises Film Project
Seeds of Peace
:: Favorite Grassroots Poverty Solution
Women's Bean Project
:: Favorite Inspiration Behind a Cause
Women of Means
:: Favorite Beacon in the Smog
Grist Magazine
:: Favorite Way to Raise Awareness
AIDSchannel
:: Favorite World View
OneWorld.net
:: Favorite Peace Effort
War Child
:: Favorite Celebration of Democracy
Orion Society's New Patriotism book series
:: Favorite Recipe for Fighting Hunger
World Hunger Year
:: Favorite Way to Inspire Youth
Street Universe
:: Favorite Inspired Youth
Free the Children International
:: Favorite Meaningful Ways to Reach Kids
(music) This Land Is Your Land: Songs of Unity by Various Artists
(book) Parvana's Journey by Deborah Ellis
:: Favorite Use of the Internet
NOVICA
:: Favorite Visionary
Sebastio Salgado
:: Favorite Storytellers
1st Person Stories
:: Favorite Cross-Generational Connections
Jumpstart
Generations Inc.
:: Favorite Vacations with Purpose
Cross-Cultural Solutions
:: Favorite Approach to Restorative Health
Casting for Recovery
:: Favorite Resource for International Activism
Global Exchange
Hope you enjoy spending some time learning more about this year's Favorite GoodThings honorees. And thanks again for making The GoodLetter one of your personal Favorite GoodThings for 2002.
As always, stay in touch. Have a wonderful 2003.
:: GOODTHINGS
Seattle, Washington USA
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TALK ABOUT IT
Thoughts on the Favorite GoodThings 2002 honorees? Which ones inspire you the most? Of course, many ideas, actions, and organizations didn't make this year's list. Which positive pacesetters would you nominate for next year? E-mail us at editor@goodthings.com --
don't forget to tell us your name, where you're from, and if we can use your words in a future GoodLetter or on our Web
site.)
LEARN MORE ABOUT IT
:: Each of the Favorite GoodThings 2002 honorees is helping change the world. Please remember to click the links above to get information about what they're all doing and how you can get involved.
DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT
:: Please support our Favorite GoodThings 2002 honorees this holiday season and into a positive and constructive 2003!
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Good Grabs :
Headlines that teach and inspire
For the past couple of years, we've found our favorite positive or
constructive pieces of world news and featured them in our "Good Grabs" section on the GoodThings.com home page. We've heard from many readers who've told us they'd love to see Good Grabs in The GoodLetter. So watch this space, and we'll tell you about a few GoodThings-esque news stories we've found during our Web wanderings. And as always, if you have a positive headline to suggest, please let us know. It could end up here!
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Celebrating diversity
Love and Race
(New York Times)
(Submitted by GoodLetter reader Susan Emge Milliner of Cedar Park, Texas)
Getting out of our comfort zones
City kids heading to farm schools
(CNN.com)
Citizens of the world
Jimmy Carter speaks eloquently for peace
(Detroit [Michigan] Free Press)
[more (Norway Post)]
Hope for the elder generation
Team approach aids depressed seniors
(The Indianapolis Star)
Renewable energy
Hydrogen: Empowering the people
(The Nation)
Global health
US joins HIV/AIDS coalition
(United Press International)
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We love to hear from you about anything: ideas or situations that are inspiring you or challenging you to think, as well as
organizations, programs, and people that contribute to your community and the world everyday. Please drop us a line.
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