99% of plastics are made from fossil fuels, including fracked gas and oil. While plastic pollution is not a single event like a pipeline leak or tanker explosion, it has been referred to as “Earth’s biggest oil spill” because of the enormous volume and presence of fossil

Learn why material wealth without spiritual growth leads to emptiness—and how harmony brings lasting happiness. #Bahai #Spirituality #Wealth #Happiness bahaiteachings.org/5-reasons-why-…

Just logged off from a second discussion, under the heading of the biological basis of #HumanRights, of "Survival of the Friendliest" by Woods + Hare. Stimulating, daunting, ultimately hopeful and useful knowledge from #science which harmonizes with much #SpiritualTradition...

One of a dismaying number of current examples, joining a brave and bloodied list of #Bahais persecuted in #Iran (and by other nations under the "Islamic Republic"'s influence), now numbering in the tens of thousands over the past two centuries. #FreeTheBahais

Holy cow

She says it superbly #EducationIsNotACrime

What lessons from the 1995 Beijing Conference continue to shape gender equality today? Great question! solidarity no matter where in the world you are

Religion must be the cause of fellowship and love. If it becomes the cause of estrangement then it is not needed, for religion is like a remedy; if it aggravates the disease then it becomes unnecessary. - Baha'u'llah #Love #Fellowship #RaceUnity #Unity #Bahai

Dorsa Dehghani summoned for Interrogation following Home Raid in Shiraz On 23 September, nearly three weeks following a raid and search of her home, Ms. Dorsa Dehghani, a resident of Shiraz, was contacted by intelligence officials and summoned for interrogation.  She presented

Three judiciary officials in Isfahan province, Iran, have issued seizure orders against several local Baha’is who as a result face the imminent and catastrophic loss of productive assets including a pistachio farm. Isfahan’s Chief Justice Asadollah Jafari, Judge Morteza Barati,

Last night was another #NineteenDayFeast in the #Bahai community (the Feast of Knowledge/Connaissance). I shared it with a superb variety of fellow believers, born in Iran, Haiti, Guyana, Taiwan, Sierra Leone, Belgium and Canada. #UnityInDiversity #Sweetness

There are many #outrageous deeds done in the world. This is one, especially since these women -- as has long been the case in #Iran -- are jailed for their belief in #UniversalEducation, the equality of women and men, and such

I think he's right. Nobody is suggesting that boring, monotone lectures are the way to go, but to suggest that the way of #education is to *not* use the greater experience/knowledge of the #educator directly? Well, that seems sub-optimal...

#Unicorn. The joke always was that he'd *written* more books than his teammates had read -- likely an exaggeration, but sheesh, the athlete as #scholar, as intellectual? #TheGame is, somehow, something I've never read. Remedying this. #RIPKenDryden #TheyBrokeTheMold

Me, too. Including *her*.

NOT JUST ABOUT THE #MentalHealth. Uh-oh...

#OnceWereReaders...

Shameless. The most obvious kind of #scapegoating. I can only assume the anti-#Bahai propaganda is also ramping up. Again.

Thank you @BBCPersian for reporting on the state-led theft of productive Baha’i-owned assets in Isfahan, Iran, by three judiciary officials in the province. The seizures expose the judiciary’s systematic campaign to persecute the Baha’i community through dispossession and

And getting THIS planet right (and becoming more demonstrably conscious of the #OnenessOfHumanity) would seem to be a good approach, yes and yes!