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Modeling Solutions Challenge Responses

In an effort to showcase the many exciting, solutions-based projects and activities that people are undertaking around the world -- and to encourage us all to take our efforts to the next level -- Circle of Life recently issued the "Modeling the Solutions Challenge." Check out a selection of responses that highlight actions that people and organizations are engaged in to improve their communities and heal our planet.

Stories Told in Our Circle

Every person is a story. We receive thousands of inspirational stories, poems and anecdotes from people every year. All of us are heroes and have the power to change our communities, our selves, and, ultimately, the world. You are our inspiration!

Ode to Hamilton's Tree Sitting Heroes By Bob Hicks

Denuded Range & De-Mockracy by Ronald D. Jones Sonoma, CA

Saving the Great Forest of Oz . . . And Other Great Forests, Too! by Tom Howard

The Joys of Creating a Mini-Habitat in Your Own Backyard by Diane and Skip

Inheriting the Earth by Mark Haddock. How does your spirituality create your worldview and motivate your actions? This essay describes one person's thoughts on the teaching that "the meek shall inherit the earth.

A Prayer for Creation, offered by Carlos Agnesi on the planting of a very special tree in Mexico City.

Raindance by Julia Adams. A poem for Luna.

Hopi elders speak by The Elders, Oraibi, Arizona, Hopi Nation: things to consider in the eleventh hour.

Luna by By Lou Contreras Bellevue, WA, July 15, 1999