Born in 1817, Thoreau was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, historian, and leading transcendentalist. His writings on natural history and philosophy anticipated the methods and findings of later-day ecology and environmental history, two current wellsprings of modern environmentalism. He is best known for his book “Walden”, a reflection on […]
Born in 1828, Tolstoy was a Russian writer, philosopher and political protagonist. Tolstoy was a master of realistic fiction and is widely considered one of the world’s greatest novelists. He is best known for two long novels, “War and Peace” (1869) and “Anna Karenina” (1877). Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona […]
Born Araminta Ross sometime in the early 1820’s, Tubman was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and activist. Born into slavery, she eventually escaped in the fall of 1849, only to return of her own free will to rescue her family. Thereafter, she continued to head back into southern lands to rescue groups of slaves and lead […]
Will Tuttle is an author, scholar, ex-Zen-monk, vegan educator, musician, philosopher, musician, and animal rights activist. After receiving a Masters Degree in Humanities from San Francisco State University and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (where his doctoral dissertation focused on educating intuition and altruism in adults – a treatise that was nominated […]
Underworld are a British electronic music group (composed originally of Karl Hyde and Rick Smith – often accompanied by Darren Emerson, and since 2005 with Hyde and Smith often alongside Darren Price) … Known for its visual style, driving beat, loving vibe, and dynamic live performances, Underworld have influenced a wide range of artists and […]
Richard Watts (a.k.a. Vegan Sidekick) has over the past several years produced thousands of comics boldly championing the cause of animal rights and cleverly debunking the many faux-arguments made against the cruelty-free vegan lifestyle – always doing so with respect, and always doing so for free … His efforts alone have inspired thousands of people […]
First coined in November of 1944 by Donald Watson when he co-founded the Vegan Society in England, “vegan” at first meant “non-dairy vegetarian”, and later was amended by Watson to refer to “the doctrine that mankind should live without exploiting animals”. Millions of the Earth’s human residents are already vegans these days (7% of Americans, […]
BONUS HERO: Donald Watson (the “Founding Father of Veganism”) … Great thanks go to Mr. Watson for gracing this Earth with his presence; and great thanks go to him as well for the legacy of Love for the animals that hehave left behind — a legacy that will indeed continue to grow & expand, until […]
Bonus Hero: Sam Simon … “Simon [co-creator of the TV hit “The Simpsons”] has set up a food bank in Los Angeles that serves only cruelty-free vegan food, and turned his Malibu mansion into dog rescue where animals who are about to be put down by local shelters are taken, cared for, and then trained […]
Vivekananda (born Narendranath Datta) was an Indian Hindu monk who played an instrumental role in the introduction of the Indian philosophy of Vedanta to the Western world. He is also credited with raising interfaith awareness, and bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century. He was a major […]
Bomb explosions were, sadly, not an unusual occurrence in Baghdad. And yet after a car packed with explosives detonated in the busy Mansour district in 2015, killing 10 people and injuring 27, something very unusual happened. Karim Wasfi, the renowned conductor of the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra, showed up just as soldiers and police were […]
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