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Want to write about a passion or interest of yours for elephant? Blogger Contest: July. Free eKo Manduka yoga mat.

by elephantjournal.com

Breaking non-news: July 1-Aug 1 whoever has most popular blog on elephantjournal.com wins a great big thick cool eKo Manduka yoga mat, color choice up to you. Worth $75 plus shipping. Wanna write something? If…
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Call for photos: elephant stickers, ele tees, ele totes…& you.

by Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com

Send us your photo, we'll post to your photo and link to your web site. It's like a free ad, and will do well in Google search results once we include your info. If your…

Lama Tsultrim Allione: The Feminine Principle.

by elephantjournal.com on Jul 3, 2009

I'm not quite sure why this video has been entitled: The Divine Feminine on youtube, given the non-theistic nature of Buddhism...but it sounds nice. I am sure that Lama Tsultrim Allione is, with Dr.…

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Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis @ LOHAS: 2009. Video.

by Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Jul 3, 2009

LOHAS—Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability—is an amazing green/yoga/health/wellness business to business conference that, each year, pumps a kazillion much-needed dollars into elephant's hometown, Boulder, Colorado. Even more importantly from a save-the-planet and have-fun-doing-so perspective…

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Book Review: The Green Bible.

by Lindsey Block on Jul 2, 2009

The Good Book just got Good-er: The Green Bible will help reduce impact of the Biggest Best-seller in History. When Waylon first handed me The Green Bible, I thought it was an environmental book…

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Conscious Consumerism. ~ by LaSara Firefox

by elephantjournal.com on Jul 2, 2009

Reframing Recession Fears to Conscious Consumerism via LaSara Firefox Every challenge is an opportunity. The recession is a perfect chance to create a shift in your family's values; a chance to move from want-based,…

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Biking to Boulder!

by Todd Mayville on Jul 1, 2009

Last year I set a goal to ride my bike out to Boulder (I live in Thornton), and for various reasons, it didn't happen. BUT... this year, it did happen, and it was GREAT.…

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Coke just got Greener, saved some Green.

by elephantjournal.com on Jul 1, 2009

Green equals Green. Coke just proved it. Now they just gotta go...organic? From the Common Sense Chronicles of Business getting eco-reponsible and saving dough, in so doing. Excerpt re that greatest of Imperialistic Capitalistic Multi-national…

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Dr. Oliver Sacks with Jon Stewart: What do Candy, Sex, Drugs, Gandhi, Hitler, Bach & an Orange Brain have in Common?

by elephantjournal.com on Jul 1, 2009

Dr. Oliver Sacks ...is one of the most incredible humans I've ever had the pleasure to know (from afar). I've read his incredible The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat (need a…

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Dear E.T. ~ via Marc Barasch

by elephantjournal.com on Jul 1, 2009

The Silent Heavens by Marc Barasch (Acting Plenipotentiary of Gaia) Marc Barasch is one of the best, and most renowned, writers we've had the pleasure to publish, both back when we were a magazine and…

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Crestone Colorado: When Silence speaks ~ Via Jeff Finlin.

by elephantjournal.com on Jul 1, 2009

Crestone, Colorado in Peril Crammed in between the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and the San Louis Valley, The small town of Crestone, Colorado rings with the essence of peace and natural wonder. You can…

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Boulder, Colorado—ranked the fittest, smartest, most bikeable city in the US—is lookin’ pretty good for 150.

by Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Jun 30, 2009

Boulder, Colorado, turns 150 years old. 1859 ~ 2009... ...And we're just getting started. I was born and raised in Boulder...and then, like so many hometown yahoos, never thought I'd come back once I…

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The Great Stupa at Shambhala Mountain Center in Red Feather Lakes, Colorado.

by elephantjournal.com on Jun 30, 2009

A family visit to...The Great Stupa Which Liberates Upon Seeing A Buddhist monument dedicated to Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche (and all sentient beings, too). via Leah Barasch Fox It has long been the tradition that…

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Gay Pridefest? What the Health. ~ via Rob DuRay of New Era Colorado.

by elephantjournal.com on Jun 30, 2009

What the Health?! Pridefest Edition via Rob DuRay of New Era Colorado If we at New Era Colorado learned anything from our weekend in Denver at Pridefest, it was clear that We the People…

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30% of Whales Killed are Pregnant.

by Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Jun 30, 2009

From the Department of WTF Supersize-Me Sushi: the hunting of (pregnant) whales continues. Whales have always been my favorite animal. They're amazing, majestic, peaceful, powerful. Their singing (see video, below) is particularly haunting. I…

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It’s getting harder to hate Starbucks.

by Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Jun 30, 2009

Starbucks is already Fair-Trade. Now, they say they're going green—and supporting local—by 2010. If they actually do it, I might have to give up my 15-year buycott of Starbucks. I used to dislike 'em…

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Your Hair. Your Salon. How green are they?

by Lindsey Block on Jun 30, 2009

Out of the top Five Ways To Green Your Haircut via Planet Green, I do 1 and 5. I have short hair (for a gal) and I cut it myself.  I usually get too…

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Book review: Happiness is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life (Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D.)

by Todd Mayville on Jun 29, 2009

Happiness is an Inside Job by Sylvia Boorstein Review: Todd Mayville for elephantjournal.com In this paperback reprint of Happiness is an Inside Job, Sylvia Boorstein uses the meditative parts of Buddhism's Noble Eightfold Path…

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Go ahead, be full of your self! ~ via “The Feng Shui Fairy,” Claire Burstein.

by elephantjournal.com on Jun 29, 2009

Why?  Because you have gifts and talents to offer the world and they deserve nurturing and appreciation from you first.  You know the idea that you need to love yourself before others can love you? …

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Let the Hair Shine On. [video]

by elephantjournal.com on Jun 29, 2009

By the two minute mark, I was getting chills. At 2:32, I literally had to hug someone. By three minutes, I was gagging with goodness. What is it about goodness and smiling that makes…

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The Twitter Dilemma: To Follow or Not To Follow by Nadia Ballas-Ruta.

by elephantjournal.com on Jun 29, 2009

When I first joined Twitter, I was overwhelmed.  I remember after creating my account, I just looked at the screen and felt like Robert Redford’s character at the end of the movie The Candidate. …

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Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis @ LOHAS: 2009. Video.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Jul 3, 2009

LOHAS—Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability—is an amazing green/yoga/health/wellness business to business conference that, each year, pumps a kazillion much-needed dollars into elephant's hometown, Boulder, Colorado. Even more importantly from a save-the-planet and have-fun-doing-so perspective…

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Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis interview: Michael Pollan. Sponsored by Gaiam.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Jun 22, 2009

elephantjournal.com founder Waylon Lewis interviews Michael Pollan re: how to communicate "green" to the masses, why he eats meat, GMOs, cancer, diet, Swine Flu & Michelle Obama's organic garden. Sponsored by Gaiam. A few…

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“Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis” ft. Paper Bird: music & interview. (Video)

By elephantjournal.com on May 18, 2009

Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis: Music & Interview with Paper Bird. Paper Bird is as beautiful in as out. Their music is the sound of a joy and love that's rooted in…

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Sister Helen Prejean of Dead Man Walking fame. A Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis on location special at Naropa University.

By elephantjournal.com on May 18, 2009

My interview with Sister Helen Prejean. The nun behind the best-selling Dead Man Walking best-selling book and movie (in which she was played by Susan Sarandon) offers a Christianity that's about mercy, compassion, forgiveness, humor—a…

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