The Life is Good company, most well-known for their line of cool, casual clothing, also has its own children's foundation! This foundation helps children who are overcome by violence, disease, and poverty. They provide training, resources, and support to both adults and children, and hold a special Life is Good Festival. The money is given to Project Joy, a nonprofit charity that supports children who have suffered extreme trauma by building a community of commited members to help these children. Both the organizations joined together in 2010 to create a community of people dedicated to helping children.
Not only is it a really cool clothing company, but Life is Good is helping to better children's lives, something admirable and important.

Recently in Newfoundland, Canada, there was a wide spread slaughter of seal pups by seal hunters who kill these poor helpless animals for their beautiful white fur. They kill them by clubbing the animals with a spike attached to a stick, leaving them to die a painful and horrible death when they're only a few weeks old. This practice is sick and inhumane and should not be tolerated.
With the help of the Humane Society, the amount of seals killed has decresed from 217,000 in 2008 to 69,000 this year. If you agree that the slaughter of these beautiful adorable animals in immoral, please help by donating to the Humane Society to save as many of these seal pups as possible!

Today, a Muslim woman wearing a veil was detained in France and arrested for breaking the recently enforced law against wearing a veil. France, unlike any other European country, banned the wearing of veils and other religious garments. The French are all about equality, and they claim that the wearing of the veil undermines the basic standards required for living in a shared society. The punishment for breaking this law is generally a fine of 150 euros and a citizenship course. Although the punishment isn't harsh, the rule is more symbolic in that it disables people from expressing themselves and their religion. Needless to say, this ruling has caused a lot of controversy, both in France and outside France. The question rises, is it really ethical to ban something that should be a basic human right of freedom of expression? Also, is the ban really necessary since there are only about 2,000 women in France who wear the niqab or burqa?
France has stated that the objections are unlikely to have any effect on whether the law will be changed. Whether the law is ethical or not is a question of opinion, but if the French government illegalizes the wearing of the veil, it opens a door to a slippery slope that could lead to more unethical and controversial laws.