Karma Kitchen in Berkeley, CA and Washington DC operates on a gift economy as well. What do you think about these unique restaurants? How does it make you feel to watch this video? I’ll tell you how it makes me feel. Warm + fuzzy.

As you may already know, Lovemore believes in giving back, and doing so is one specific way we choose love more as a business. To that end, a portion of each Lovemore sale is donated to Earth Birth women’s health collective. We’ve written about Earth Birth and our connection to midwife and Earth Birth co-founder Rachel Zaslow previously, and you can catch up on that here. Today we’re excited to share a great video that will take you to the heart of Earth Birth and the important work they are doing in Uganda. We are incredibly appreciative to everyone who has embraced Lovemore and has enabled us spread the Lovemore message farther and wider. Together we are increasing the love quotient in the world, and what’s more important than that? (We can’t think of one thing.)

Random fun fact: the translators who work with Earth Birth have a very hard time understanding the American English accent, so you will hear Rachel and her partner Olivia display a couple different accents in this video.

“Mirror in the sky, what is love?” This is! These kids, this teacher, the moving with the music, and finally, the way they move others. And me to tears. Every single time! Amazing. Beautiful. Thank you PS22 for existing and putting so much more love in the world than existed before you opened your mouths and sang!

This sure is a message for this particular time and place, isn’t it? Well, the chorus anyway. Not the whole lovers on the boulevard thing. Anyway, I wanted to share the cutest 5th graders in the world with you and then I started to ponder how believin’, as it were, and Lovemore are related. Angela and I have talked a lot over the past year about how there are simply more challenges for almost everyone these days. And like everyone else, we get all caught up in the panic from time to time when we momentarily do stop believing. Oh do we ever. Usually around midnight, speaking our fears and letting the tears roll on a park bench in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.

That said, we’re so thankful that we now have a spiritual home to return to in the mantra “love more.” Our belief that choosing love more is the answer to any and every question invariably grabs us by our shoulders, stops our spinning, and maneuvers us around until we are again pointed in the right direction. And from that perspective we see that there is an amazing gift in these difficult times. In the midst of a stressed out world, we as individuals can choose to grow our hearts big enough to hold this new level of challenge in love. We have the opportunity (perhaps unwelcome, but an opportunity nonetheless) to love*uncertainty*more, love*change*more, and love*vulnerability*more. As we practice bringing love instead of fear to what is tender, everything starts to shift and, well, we are 99.99% sure that is what will change the whole game. And that, we will never stop believin.

On this day in 1967 The Beatles recorded All You Need Is Love live on the British TV. Thank you Beatles! We couldn’t agree more.

Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
There's nothing you can do that can't be done.
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game
It's easy.
There's nothing you can make that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be saved.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you
in time - It's easy.

All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
Nothing you can see that isn't shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
It's easy.

All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
All you need is love (all together now)
All you need is love (everybody)
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.

Reblogged from LuvLuvLuv

If you’re looking for a film for the weekend, HOME is a stunner of a full-length movie that is being shared with the world for free viewing until June 14th. The producers say of the movie:

HOME is an ode to the planet’s beauty and its delicate harmony. Through the landscapes of 54 countries captured from above, Yann Arthus-Bertrand takes us on an unique journey all around the planet, to contemplate it and to understand it. But HOME is more than a documentary with a message, it is a magnificent movie in its own right. Every breathtaking shot shows the Earth – our Earth – as we have never seen it before. 

Click the pic to see the full length feature film. Enjoy and here’s to mama earth!

I learned about the film via Dhrumil Purohit from We Like it Raw, a blog “about the power of raw foods.” Thanks Dhrumil!

*Update: For more information check out this great feature, Behind the Seams, by Style Caster. 

**Pssst…lots of the shoes are vegan even, I mean come on, this company is so cool.

Lovemore is moving quickly to help put a whole lot more love in the world and to support the Courage Campaign’s fearless response to today’s Prop 8 decision in the California courts. Here is what the Courage Campaign is doing:

In response to the court’s decision, the Courage Campaign will hit the California airwaves in the next 72 hours with a 60-second TV ad version of “Fidelity” — the heartbreaking online video viewed by more than 1.2 million people, making it the most-watched video ever in the history of California politics.

We are launching this provocative new TV ad in the spirit of Harvey Milk’s call to “come out, come out wherever you are” and proudly tell the stories of the people most affected by the passage of Prop 8 — in moving images set to the beat of Regina Spektor’s beautiful song. 

Here’s what Lovemore is doing: 

During this 72 hour period, when you enter the code RESTOREEQUALITY at the checkout we will donate 10% of your Lovemore purchase to the Courage Campaign and give you 10% off the entire purchase. Lovemore’s motto, which is on the bottom of every page on our site is: “Love more…often, fearlessly, passionately…even when it’s hard.” Please help us do just that by sharing and wearing the love, and by donating personally to the Courage Campaign.

Only love will save the day, and we’re so honored to do what we can to dedicate Lovemore to this important cause. Please join us as we love*equality*more, love*freedom*more, love*all of our brothers and sisters*more, and most importantly, love*LOVE*more!