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This Month’s Being Game: Being Compassionate by Speaking Powerfully A Buddhist practice called Maitri, the practice of compassionate care and loving kindness, is a useful tool with which to practice compassion toward one’s self and each other. To us, speaking powerfully means being deliberate, clear, and compassionate in our communication. [...]

Co-Founder Alexia Marcous interviewed by GreenMarketing.TV Dharma co-founder Alexia Marcous was interviewed by Lorna Li of GreenMarketing.tv.  Check out this interview to find out why these principles are so central to Alexia’s entrepreneurial approach, including her thoughts on:- The benefits of incorporating the spiritual into your business- Using passive residual income [...]

You Are Born Worthy Self-esteem is the measure of how you feel about yourself at a given moment in time. Your worth, however, is not a product of your intelligence, your talent, your looks, your good works, or how much you have accomplished. Rather it is an immeasurable and unchanging [...]

Amazon Watch and SBA host Benefit Concert On July 22nd, Dharma was privileged to attend the Benefit Concert with Amazon Watch and the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance (SBA) at the beautiful Bently Reserve in downtown San Francisco. This team-up was the first time that a rainforest protection organization and a bio-fuels [...]

18 Reasons hosts Tomatoland author Barry Estabrook U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said “Sunlight is the best disinfectant” in regards to openness and transparency in government. Extended amounts of sunlight is also one of the best ways to grow a delicious tomato. Barry Estabrook, author of “Tomatoland,” drove these points home in a dinner/talk [...]

Merchant Interview with Ron Alcalay of Vital Hemp Ron Alcalay is a vital member of the sustainable community, working diligently to re-legalize the cultivation of industrial hemp in the United States. I had the incredible pleasure of hearing Rony speak at the Green America Green Business Conference in 2008, and [...]

Yellow Pages Opt-in Legislation Passes in San Francisco! On May 17th, San Francisco set a precedent for cities around the country to stand up to the Yellow Pages Association and prevent them from dumping unwanted Yellow Pages directories, sometimes more than once per year, on residents who don’t use them. [...]

Co-Founder Jeff Marcous interviewed by The Green Sheet Co-Founder Jeff Marcous was interviewed by The Green Sheet in an article "The triple bottom line: people, planet, profits." I appreciate individuals with a deep history of our industry. They have the knowledge and experience to put current events into historical perspective. Jeff [...]

Good news for B Corporations: AB 361 Passes in the CA Assemly! Great news: AB361 passed with majority support in the vote on May 3rd! The bill was supported by Assemblymember Jared Huffman, and would authorize and regulate the formation and governance of a new form of corporate entity known [...]

Want to Feel 25% Happier? Just Say “Thank You!” The YOU docs from “The Dr. Oz Show” have discovered what we at Dharma have known for quite awhile, expressing gratitude makes the world a better place. The doctors suggest people who practice this virtue feel 25% happier. We dont have to single-handedly stop global [...]