The Today Show introduced me to the “Stand Up to Cancer” initiative this morning.  It’s anchored by a terrific

When you are making investments, I would look at a triple bottom line - the possibility of making money, the green effect and the social impact.  Dr Larry Brilliant, Executive Director, Google.org

UPDATE, JANUARY 23, 2008:  We received this lovely note the other day from Matthieu Ricard (pictured here) and Vivian Kurz who is his right hand person in the United States.

"The first digital decade has been a great success. The second digital decade will be more focused on connecting people. It will be more user-centric." Bill Gates, speaking at this month’s Consumer Electronics Show.

New Year’s resolutions – such as lose weight, stop smoking, make new friends, learn something new – usually fall by the wayside even before January runs out.

The front page story in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times

Ben Stein does commentary on CBS News Sunday Morning

Yesterday, Al Gore accepted the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and made an impassioned plea for action.  His acceptance speech was terrific. You can read it here in its entirety.

We went to a wonderful, inspired fundraiser for the Shechen Clinics which was hosted by a group of Googlers in Mountain View.  First on the program was

Quintessential of Just Cause’s “make some good news” motto is this story that came over the AP Wire the other day.