Review of Raga Unveiled: India’s Voice [Interview With Gita Desai.]
by Saraswati J. on May 31, 2009
A raga is a melody bejeweled with notes and emotions that colors or delights the mind. – Sage Matang, circa 700 AD by Sarah Miller Last week, I attended the Houston premier of Raga Unveiled: India’s Voice, a vibrant explosion of sight and sound that explores the tradition of North Indian Classical Music. The film [...]
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“Generosity is the Virtue that Produces Peace” ~ Buddhist aphorism. Operation Frontline works to teach families how to shop, cook & eat healthy & affordably.
by elephantjournal.com on May 31, 2009
One Winter, I remember, my two-job-working mom couldn’t afford Christmas presents, and we lived on (healthy, whole grain) brown rice and popcorn. Still, it’s hard these days to imagine that citizens right here in Boulder, and all over Colorado, and the whole of the US are going through such tough times…and far, far worse. In [...]
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Everyday Buddhadharma with Linda Lewis: Buddhist Lojong Slogan #8: Always Maintain a Joyful Mind.
by elephantjournal.com on May 30, 2009
Obviously, it’s easy to be happy when things are going well—when we have “reasons” to be happy. This is known as conditional happiness—happiness due to positive conditions. But in any given life, mishaps and difficulties happen. We are not immune to problems and adverse circumstances. Being mortal, we all experience sickness, aging, and dying. Even [...]
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Yoga Adventures in Buenos Aires
by Caroline Clark on May 30, 2009
I don’t pretend to be any kind of yoga expert. I can barely to that one head stand position for more than 2 minutes and I can’t meditate for the life of me. The yoga classes I’ve taken in Boulder were casual and inconsistent, but I always enjoyed them and wished I had the time [...]
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Bill Moyers on: The Story of Stuff & Daniel Goleman, who I met with Nawang Khechog last week.
by Waylon Lewis on May 30, 2009
Goleman at Google, TED, Bill Moyers…on emotional, social, business & social intelligence. Plus, music & interview re: Free Tibet with Nawang Khechog, who’s just about all better since his life-threatening car accident in India. Last week I ran into my old dear friend Nawang Khechog, the famous Tibetan musician who’s played with David Bowie, [...]
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NPR Fondles Monsanto. [Petition]
by Saraswati J. on May 29, 2009
by Sarah Miller Oh you haven’t heard?! Your fuzzy, sweet little “public” radio station is getting monetary support from some of the largest corporations in the world. I’ve heard the GE commercials before and shuddered, but when I caught Marketplace’s blatant advertisement of Monsanto the other day, I gagged. Furthermore they used their name in [...]
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What is Xeriscape? by Boulder Landscape Architect Thomas Rutherford. Photos: Rusty Ralston for elephantjournal.com.
by elephantjournal.com on May 29, 2009
A (Very) Brief History of Xeriscape by Thomas Rutherford, of Mosaic Garden Design in Boulder, Colorado. Photos by Rusty Ralston …of Thomas Rutherford and family installing a Xeriscape landscape at Hotelephant, a “green” renovated Victorian belonging to (the bank and) elephantjournal.com founding editor Waylon Lewis For the sake of clarity, a few small things must [...]
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BCBR: Fastest Growing Private Companies in Boulder.
by elephantjournal.com on May 29, 2009
Eco Products, Simple Solar, Pangea, Boulder’s Best Organics are among Boulder County Business Report’s fastest growing businesses in Boulder, Colorado. For the complete list of Fastest Growing Companies in Boulder, with how much money they made, and how fast they grew percentage wise, click Boulder County Business Report’s article. It took some exhaustive research! [...]
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Summer Rayne Oakes, the “Eco Model.” Photos.
by Waylon Lewis on May 29, 2009
We’ve been big fans of, and fast friends (at least in our own minds) with Summer Rayne Oakes for years, ever since our Catherine Fordham interviewed her for elephant journal (when it was a print magazine) a couple eons ago. We’ve since blogged (and interviewed her) re: her tireless work for Mother Earth many times. [...]
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Rules to Eat By (inspired by Foodie Hero Michael Pollan), via Sara Watts & Lindsey Cash
by elephantjournal.com on May 29, 2009
Food for Thought Seminal food writer Michael Pollan came to Boulder on Thursday, May 21st, as a guest of The Boulder Bookstore. He was warmly received at Unity Church by a sold-out house of six hundred of his most ardent Boulder fans. His talk centered around his most recent book, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s [...]
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How many calories an hour does casual biking burn?
by Waylon Lewis on May 28, 2009
Via our friends over at Ideal Bite, some bicycle (click here for my Huffington Post article on Top 10 Commuter Bikes) basics: Every gallon of gasoline we burn creates about 20 pounds of climate-change-causing CO2, making commuting by bike way eco-friendly. Casual biking burns about 173 calories per hour. A typical U.S. family spends nearly $8,000 [...]
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I’m on a Boat!!! (made of re-purposed plastic bottles)
by Caroline Clark on May 28, 2009
Considered the “Hottest Guy in Green” by Earthfirst.com, David de Rothschild is turning out to be much more than a poster boy for the sexy green movement. After founding the successful Adventure Ecology project, he is about to head to Australia from San Francisco on a boat made of recycled plastic. The journey of the Plastiki hopes [...]
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Book review: Jesus in the Lotus: The Mystical Doorway between Christianity and Yogic Spirituality (Russill Paul)
by Todd Mayville on May 28, 2009
Some years ago I became aware of the issues between yoga and spirituality when a student on my climbing team approached me and told me that he wouldn’t be able to do yoga in training because his pastor told him that yoga was satanic (in spite of the fact that I had no plans to [...]
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elephantjournal.com events: The NYC Yoga Journal Conference, via Leah Beltran.
by elephantjournal.com on May 28, 2009
elephantjournal.com events: New York City Yoga Journal Conference 2009 via Leah Beltran. On Friday evening, May 14, I finished my first year as a jewelry design major at the Fashion Institute of Technology. It was a ten-month period in which I felt everything was due yesterday. I’ve been asked to start from paper and go to product, [...]
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Listen to the Silence.
by elephantjournal.com on May 28, 2009
The eco cool dream car for a generation that gives a care…has arrived. It’s available for lease in some parts of the country. Oh, and if you’re in Boulder for LOHAS Forum this June, you’ll get to test drive one—if we have time and resources we’ll video one of the test drives, whoot! From Comments: [...]
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elephantjournal.com event: June 2: Bizarre Boulder-Nicaragua Event ~ via Joshua Berman.
by elephantjournal.com on May 27, 2009
Nica-’radans Unite! Bizarre Evening in NoBo (Boulder, Colorado) to Help Nicaraguan Children. via Joshua Berman Nicaragua is Central America’s largest and most misunderstood country, but it’s finally shaking off the shadows of its past and entering this brave new global order – which, for better or worse, includes tourism and reality television. To wit: After appearing [...]
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Opportunity Green: “Top 10 Eco Twitterers to Follow.”
by elephantjournal.com on May 27, 2009
OPPORTUNITY GREEN’S TOP 10 ECO TWITTERERS TO FOLLOW Over the last month, we’ve been named a top 10 Green Video Blog by Karl Burkart of Green Dig for MNN, and a Top 10 Green Twitterer by Shea Gunther of MNN. We ourselves have penned a Top 10 Boulder Twitter Users to Follow and I wrote [...]
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Upgrading the Urban Model by Emil Kresl.
by elephantjournal.com on May 27, 2009
We cannot expect to sustain ourselves under the current model of urban living. The problem is not that we do not have enough fuel; the problem is that we are consuming too much. To stop this we must change the model of how we live. The hope of replacing oil with some other fuel source [...]
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Bike Sales 2008: The Good, The Bad, the Ugly. And the Inspiring.
by elephantjournal.com on May 27, 2009
From Treehugger, the Good: While news of the four-wheel variety remains bleak with news that GM is on the brink of bankruptcy, news for the two wheel set is mostly good. In fact, more bicycles were bought in the first quarter of 2009 than cars and trucks. That’s change I can believe in. The Bad: [...]
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Boulder: Art Happening to benefit EFAA.
by Waylon Lewis on May 27, 2009
There’s nothing I love more than an art party. Why? Perhaps ’cause I’m frequently accused of 1) being an unofficial mayor of Boulder or 2) having ADHD. Either way, I love having a half-dozen fun light meaningful conversations a minute, whether it’s at the Farmer’s Market or what. But there’s something about art parties that raises the [...]
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elephantjournal.com product reviews: Teatulia: the truly “green” tea.
by elephantjournal.com on May 27, 2009
If you’re eco, if you’re green, if you think caring about our earth isn’t a joking matter—and yet you like to enjoy life, take care of your health and feel good about your buying decisions, then tea is for you. Disclaimer: after two years drinking only green tea, never coffee, I’m back and hooked on [...]
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Want to fix the Economy? Legalize (and tax) Pot. And legalize Gay Marriage.
by Waylon Lewis on May 27, 2009
Want to fix the Economy? Legalize (and tax) Pot. And legalize Gay Marriage. I’m serious. You wanna fix the economy, Republicrats? Then let’s kill the war on (soft) drugs and tax the hell out of ‘em, instead. Less jail, less crime, more taxes. As for gay marriage, the civil rights issue of our time, The [...]
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7th Annual Garden Tour on Mapleton Hill: Where the world meets in the heart of Boulder
by Yesica Pineda on May 26, 2009
7th Annual Garden Tour on Mapleton Hill: Where the world meets in the heart of Boulder In Boulder, on April 23rd, 60 fourth grade students walked from Whittier Elementary to Goose Creek to collect water. Then they walked back to school. Each student carried one gallon of water and watered the school trees. In addition [...]
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Social Media: Top Boulder, Colorado Twitter Tweeters You Should Follow.
by Waylon Lewis on May 26, 2009
The Flatirons emerging through storm clouds H1 System, HC 210mm, velvia 50 Hasselblad 645. Photograph by Bob Carmichael. Used with Permission—we’re big fans of his work. Boulder is my hometown, the green mountain valley where the Great, Golden, now-suburb filled Plains meet and shake hands with the high n’mighty red Rocky Mountains. It’s where I [...]
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Karma, Love & The Path to Enlightenment.
by Nadia Ballas-Ruta on May 26, 2009
Once you learn the law of karma, your life is forever changed. At least, that was the case for me. I remember reading that every action I take creates a ripple effect and the results of my actions will always come back to me. The interesting thing is that the return effects may occur in [...]
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Technology meets Art on The New Yorker cover. Video.
by elephantjournal.com on May 26, 2009
The below video makes for a great viewing experience. Text excerpt: Jorge Colombo drew this week’s cover using Brushes, an application for the iPhone, while standing for an hour outside Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in Times Square. For the rest of the article and interview about the making of the cover, click here.
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Green Tip: drink beer from draft, not bottle or can if given choice.
by Waylon Lewis on May 26, 2009
This may be a short blog, but it’s one of the few that, in the process of writing, will forevvvver change my behavior. So why’s draft beer not only lighter on your wallet—but on Mother Earth? Click here. Or here. Or here. Oh, and if you’re looking fto drink an eco-responsible brand, go for Sierra [...]
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Paul Hawken: the Commencement Address.
by elephantjournal.com on May 26, 2009
They say in advertising that it takes 13 impressions, on average, before a reader of a magazine, say, will notice an ad. And so, like most of us, I generally barely register news until I’ve heard it three or four times…unless it’s really important, like the lifetime-changing appointment of a Supreme Court nominee or the [...]
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Obama picks Sotomayor as Supreme Court Justice Nominee. Would be Third Woman, First Hispanic.
by Waylon Lewis on May 26, 2009
Sonia Sotomayor will, if approved by Congress, only be the second woman on the current trending-conservative Court, and third woman ever. Read all about it at The New York Times. She would be our first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice ever, if approved! If approved, Sotomayor would serve for life—making this one of Obama’s most important, [...]
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The Bolder Boulder race, starring…Ryan Van Duzer!
by Waylon Lewis on May 26, 2009
Ryan Van Duzer duz the Bolder Boulder, one of the biggest races in the country. Ryan’s the best of Boulder, man, it’s like we grew him in one of our science labs, injected a big dose of not-taking-yourself-seriously, a big dose of athleticism, a shot of being-a-good-caring-guy, grew him in a test tube for a [...]
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Indie Fashion for Social Action [Rad Video!]
by Rachel Znerold on May 25, 2009
Featuring high-fashion performances by fAction, six cutting-edge San Francisco independent designers, (ok, ok, I’m one of them!) this Thursday evening, May 28th will bring a stunning combination of music, choreography and unique handmade costume designs. At one of San Francisco’s favorite hipster venues,
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Transforming the Business of Yoga with…Pay-What-You-Can Yoga!?
by Jayson Gaddis on May 25, 2009
Yup. You read that right. On May 26, 2009, my friends Quinn Kearney and Clarie Mark of Yogaview in Chicago are leading a bold experiment–pay-what-you-can yoga. It’s been done before (google pay what you can yoga), but to see a high-level yoga studio that is considered one of the best studios in Chicago to lead [...]
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We Are The Cosmic Americans
by Joana Smith on May 25, 2009
~Anais Mitchell~ “I’m a live wire, I’m a shortwave radio, do you copy? I’m a flash of light from the radar tower to the runway… If I love you Gonna do it semi-automatically… Do you blame me? Do you blame me?” -Cosmic American why, mother? why did you cover up all the windows? also we [...]
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Laughing in the Face of Resistance.
by Claire Amber on May 25, 2009
Life has taken some interesting turns lately. I didn’t anticipate living with my mom again. I didn’t think I’d end up taking a minimum wage job, either! The last time I made $8 an hour was in 1996 when I worked as a teller in a bank! I think it was $8.50, actually. Back then, [...]
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“The Secret” Authentic Spirituality? Or Spiritual Materialism?
by Jayson Gaddis on May 24, 2009
It’s time to go a little further with an intelligent discussion about “The Secret,” Secret followers, and the claim that if you want something in life, all you have to do is manifest it and create a vision board. After all, this website has a lot of spiritual content and is even known to challenge [...]
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Event: “Spark The Fire” yoga conference, May 29th-31st in Denver, CO.
by elephantjournal.com on May 24, 2009
an elephantjournal.com recommended and sponsored event Denver Yoga Studios are coming together to inspire community and provide support during this era of radically shifting work, life and values. “Spark the Fire – Igniting Yoga and Conscious Community” hopes to draw as many as 1,000 Colorado yoga practitioners to the New Hope Baptist Church in Denver. [...]
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Being Mindful While Being in the World.
by Nadia Ballas-Ruta on May 24, 2009
Whenever someone asks me how I first discovered Buddhism, I tell them the following: “Richard Gere“. That usually brings a laugh but it is seriously how I first came to know about Buddhism. � I was a teenager and had seen the movie Pretty Woman, after which I developed a huge crush on Gere. As any normal teenage [...]
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What you Need to Know about Recycling: It’s More than Putting Stuff in Bins by Tom Kemper, CEO of Dolphin Blue.
by elephantjournal.com on May 24, 2009
We can all put stuff in a bin and think we are doing a world of good. Anybody who has researched recycling to a meaningful degree will find otherwise. For example, take a deeper look at your city’s recycling program—if it has one. You might have 90-gallon roll-away containers used for facilitating recycling of recyclable [...]
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Develop Mindfulness through Climbing, and Improve your Technique. ~ via David DeFranza.
by elephantjournal.com on May 24, 2009
To look in most climbing gyms, with people grunting and shouting, lunging for holds and falling, you might not get the impression that mindfulness, a state of calm awareness, played much of a role in the sport. In fact, cultivating this sense of awareness is not only integral to improvement in climbing, but climbing itself [...]
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Organic Cuisine, Cocktails, and Cultivation…with Strawberries.
by Jennifer Russick on May 24, 2009
On the rare occasion that temperatures soar into the 90s on a Saturday (May 16) in San Francisco you can expect to find people basking in Dolores Park or soaking up rays at Baker Beach. In fact, the last place you would expect to find anyone might be the cellar of Macy’s in Union Square… [...]
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Got a flat roof? Put some bees on it!
by elephantjournal.com on May 23, 2009
Inspiring: the Fairmont Hotel in Washington, D.C. just put 105,000 Italian honeybees on its roof. Via MNN: …The bees will enhance the hotel’s culinary program by providing honey and pollinating the fresh herbs and edible flowers in the Fairmont’s interior courtyard garden. Executive Sous Chef Ian Bens and Executive Pastry Chef Aron Weber, who share the responsibility [...]
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Are Lawn Pesticides Bad for your (children’s, pet’s, family’s) health?
by Waylon Lewis on May 23, 2009
I sometimes walk barefoot. Children often do. My dog likes to chew on grass. Is this bad for us? This morning, in the green cradle that is Boulder Valley, I went drank some organic coffee, hopped on my bike and, with my rescue dog, went downtown—where local, independent business proliferate. Returning, I came across a [...]
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Summer swimwear interview with deux fm [eco swimwear]
by Anna Gilkerson on May 23, 2009
Mystique bikini from deux fm’s Summer 2009 swimwear collection in cream, sky and lilac $82.00 If I was to post a blog on my favorite eco swimsuit I would have to pick my own nautical bikini version. It’s cute, fits well and is sewn with the utmost quality. Oh! and did I mention it is [...]
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“Decency is absence of strategy”- Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
by Anna Gilkerson on May 23, 2009
Photo by Andrea Roth I received this from my daily Ocean of Dharma Quotes this morning and I want to share it. “If you are a warrior, decency means that you are not cheating anybody at all. You are not even about to cheat anybody. There is a sense of straightforwardness and simplicity. With setting-sun [...]
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Targeting the profound: Who do you listen to?
by Yesica Pineda on May 22, 2009
Targeting the profound: Who do you listen to? Mercury has been retrograde for a while now; therefore time to reflect is the best way to integrate to our natural planetary design. A pause into the flow of constant productivity is
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Poetry: Ballad of 28th & Pearl, by Jonathan Huey.
by elephantjournal.com on May 22, 2009
Ballad Of 28th & Pearl by Jonathan Huey I. Let their minds crumble star-shocked & Greedy The couple making out at the bar now standing forty feet apart in the alley behind the Outback Saloon forlorn under mid-august lightning moon haze Police officer asks: have we heard screaming in the vicinity of Taco Bell [...]
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Chef Ann Cooper on The Daily Show! Video.
by elephantjournal.com on May 22, 2009
I first read about Ann Cooper in The New Yorker a few years back. Working to offer school children healthy food, she’s fast become a hero to parents and real food lovers everywhere. And now she’s made Jon Stewart’s Daily Show! Following Michelle Obama’s organic garden, chemical companies actually wrote a much-parodied letter of protest [...]
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Boulder: Greening your Office begins with a (free) eco-audit.
by Jayson Gaddis on May 22, 2009
In Boulder? Want to know a great way to be green and save money for your small (or medium-sized) business? Talk with R.J. Mastic of Boulder’s Green Office Ideas and he’ll do a free eco-audit for your office. During an eco audit a consultant takes about 45 minutes to completely assess your office to find different [...]
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Raquel Allegra: Re-used shredded T-shirt Couture [Los Angeles]
by Anna Gilkerson on May 22, 2009
I love me a ripped tee. I do. It reminds me of all the Glass Tiger concerts that I never went to. Maybe this is why I am in love with the “shred” and it is top trend right now. It seems like there are so SO many old (perfectly worn thin) t-shirts lying around [...]
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New Website Dedicated to Natural Animal Care via Dr. Mercola and Dr. Becker.
by Saraswati J. on May 21, 2009
by Sarah Miller Those of us caring for animal companions want to do everything we can to ensure their total health and long, happy lives. Like parents, we make mistakes along the way, but keep asking questions in hopes of getting “it right” more times than not. My two canines get the royal treatment: a [...]
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