mindfulness

Ready For Positive Media? Help HopeMob.org Get Kickstarted!

February 16, 2012 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

Update: Feb 17, 2012 Boom! And that's how it's done. Congrats HopeMob.Congrats world. Feb 16, 2012 Tired of skanky media with lousy messages and negative role models? Prefer to find fabulously positive uses of social media to uplift and inspire humanity? Ready to be part of something worthy, exciting, and impactful? In less than 24 hours Shaun King could be fully funded … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Age-of-Conversation, Believe, Blame Drew's Cancer, change agents, Changemakers, CNN Heroes, crowdsourcing, digital activism, Do Good, GameChangers, Gen Z, Haiti tents, Hope Mob, HopeMob, Humane Education, Inspiring Media, Kickstarter, marketing hope, microfunding, mindfulness, mobile-social, MTV Act, positive media influence, role models, service learning, Shaun King, social change, social-media, socially responsible, Tapestries-of-Hope, when generous strangers unite, wisdom of crowds, youth activism

How Can We Use Media To Gift Without Buying?

December 11, 2011 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Update: Dec. 12, 2018 Open Call...for any and all ideas to give the gift of TIME to teachers, elders, family and friends and reduce consumption/increase heartfelt meaning in the process! Hit me up with your favorite finds and well-received, positive picks? Dec. 16, 2015 Update For those who appreciated the post "Toy Joy vs Consumption Junction, or one of the original posts … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: anti-consumption, battling cancer, Buy Buy Baby, buy nothing, catalog shopping, CCFC, Coming of Age In a Crap Economy, commercial free, Consuming kids, consumption, critical thinking, don't buy it, eco literacy, family tradition, financial literacy, freebies, freecycling, gift of time, gift without buying, gifts, giving vs receiving, Good Night iPad, holiday debt, holiday rituals, kids gifts, Me to We, mindfulness, neuroscience of shopping, not buying it, regifting, shop til you drop, student debt, Think Geek, thought that counts, thrifty gifting, virtual gifting

Using Media With Mindfulness

April 1, 2011 by Amy Jussel 31 Comments

Update Jan. 14, 2016 Fame focus...don't bite the hook! Adding this excellent post by Ryan Holiday of the NY Observer calling out the recent Rolling Stone ratings raunch along with a slough of infamous examples of "shamelessness." It has a "spot on" tenor and a downright visceral headline: "This is the Hollowed-Out World That Outrage Culture Has Created" Yes. Yes, it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Counter-marketing, Damaging Drek, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Product Placement, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values Tagged With: Abercrombie, advocacy, African Americans, alcohol in the media, alcopops, American Apparel, backlash, Baiting Outrage, Blast Colt 45, Brand jamming, childrens health, childrens rights, Clawdeen, commodification, critical thinking, ghetto marketing, guerilla marketing, Hastac, hiphop, Industry Ears, lifestyle cancers, malt liquor, Marin Institute, media incivility, media mindfulness, media vitriol, media-literacy, mindfulness, Monster High Dolls, new media journalism, padded swimsuits seven year olds, payola, preteen-health, push up bras for kids, race baiting, radio DJ samplings, selling out kids, Sexualization, shock schlock, SnoopDog, social justice, substance abuse, teens, there goes the hood, Tuft's study, tweens, underage drinking, undermining parents, whacked in the assets

Earth Day: 40 Eco Links Worth Recycling to Friends

April 22, 2010 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

April 20, 2020 Update: (How often does that happen 20-2020?) 4-21-2020: Amidst the "Contagion" concerns of COVID-19, take a moment to imagine what POSITIVE CONTAGION taking action on climate change could look like... Here are just a few ways to engage and inspire kids with green media to advocate for our planet's future! 4-20-2018 update: I'll spare you the countless … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: #EarthDay2016, altruism, apps, avatar, behavior, blue is the new green, Blue Planet, cause marketing, CauseWorld, change agents, climate change, dirty thirty, Discover the forest, Disneynature, Earth Day, eco, eco heroes, eco labels, eco literacy, eco-friendly, ecology, Energy Star, Envirolution, Environment, Forest Ethics, Fun theory, Get 'Em Outside, green games, Green my Parents, green toys, Green TV, Green-Teens, greenwashing, habitat, Heal the Bay, Healthy Child Healthy World, how to turn people green, influence, Kids, marketing hope, media-literacy, mindfulness, NCLI, Ocean Conservancy, oceanized, Oceans, One world, philanthropy, planet stewards, Plastiki, reach and teach, recycling, safe cosmetics, Save Our Seas, save the planet, Sea Turtles, service learning, social gaming, socially responsible, Sustainability, The Lorax, unplugged, youth

Meaningful Manga: Graphic Novels and Growth

December 13, 2009 by Amy Jussel 15 Comments

Update: May 21, 2014 Our friends at Reach and Teach have added another clever manga style illustrated book called "A is for Action" which merits an update! I love the seeding of social change in a fun fresh manner. The A is for Action book and HelpTakeAction.com website are a result of a teacher-initiated action research project published in the IB Journal of Teaching Practice: … [Read more...]

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