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First Annual Mountain Bike Fundraiser & Pilgrimage ~ via Josh Weinstein.

by on Aug 31, 2009

First Annual Mountain Bike Fundraising/Pilgrimage From Boulder To the Great Stupa of Dharmakaya. Great Vajra masters are often quoted as saying bring everything to the path of awakening.  For many years of my life I tried to pay attention only to the outdoor sports that I loved.   My passion for these activities made me feel [...]


How To Stop the Viral Spread of a Bad Mood ~ via LaSara Firefox Allen.

by on Aug 31, 2009

It’s happened to us all; you wake up in a great mood. The sun is shinning, and the first thought you had when you opened your eyes was, “Ah, I’m so lucky to have this life!” You happily hum your way into the kitchen, and begin getting ready for another full and fabulous day. You’re [...]


Dream Truck.

by on Aug 31, 2009

What if the Hokey-Pokey is What it’s all About? I went car-less maybe six months or a year ago. Though I hardly drove anymore—I’d arranged my life so that I could bike day in and out, by living downtown and getting a bike for riding on, not just looking cool on—it was tough to unplug myself [...]


Dear Family: I Am Not A Freak. On Becoming Buddhist.

by on Aug 31, 2009

One of the many joys of being a Buddhist is the reactions you get from the people who knew you before you were Buddhist. For example, many relatives of mine think that I have been brainwashed. One summer, I had a relative sit down and tell me that my soul was in danger because I [...]


Modern Day Forrest Gump is “Walking For The Climate.” But Where’s the Love?

by on Aug 31, 2009

Reading this article via the NY Times, I felt a little bit sad.  From the perspective of a college graduate like myself, it’s usually harder to convince the older generations of what’s hip in the here and now. They get stuck in their old ways, shun technology (don’t even start talking to your mom about [...]


I, for one, will support Silk Soy Natural vs. Organic—for now.

by on Aug 31, 2009

An old ad a block away from Steve Demos’ new offices on Boulder’s famous Pearl St. Mall still reads: “organic.” Steve Demos, Silk Soy, Dean Foods: the Devolution of a Natural Products Success Story. Changing the world, & getting rich while doing so. Steve Demos, Boulder Natural Products Industry hero, sold to evil Dean Foods [...]


Free Therapy? At your local Farmers’ Market.

by on Aug 31, 2009

Reason #78 I love the Farmers’ Market: live music & children & dancing. The other day I was down, and out, overworked and underpaid, my pickup had done broke down and my girl’d  packed up and left me. My dog had died, and the man from the bank had gone and repossessed my family home. [...]


don't worry be happy buddhist shantideva

Buddhist rule re: Worrying.

by on Aug 31, 2009

I tweeted this casually awhile back, and it got more RTs than all my other posts combined, today. So, guess it warrants being made into a short, sweet blog post in and of itself. The Buddhist rule re Worrying is simple: don’t. Or, as Shantideva said more eloquently, If it can be fixed; why worry? [...]


Coffee Ice Cubes in your Iced Coffee?

by on Aug 31, 2009

The moment Graham Markel fell in love with Burnt Toast…was when he noticed the ice cubes in his iced coffee were made of…iced coffee. Now that’s “the mindful life”: bothering with the little details is the difference between love and apathy; great and good.


Cell Phone Booth.

by on Aug 31, 2009

Every Cafe should have one. As seen at The Cup in Boulder, Colorado. The other way to go is, like the Trident Cafe & Booksellers, simply discourage any and all from talking on the cell phone while in the cafe. Still, unlike the above photo, that don’t always work so well come wintertime.


Nature: it just won’t die.

by on Aug 31, 2009

You can bury it, burn it, poison it, kill it dead. But Nature’s fundamental quality is life: it’ll find even the smallest, most unwelcoming of cracks, worm it’s seed in there, gather up some dirt and water and sunshine and make a go of it. Kinda like an entrepreneur.


iDea.

by on Aug 31, 2009

In case I lose my iPhone, I took an iPhoto of my business card & made that my default screen shot.


Bike of the Day. [BotD]

by on Aug 31, 2009

As seen outside The Kitchen, in Boulder, Colorado. I don’t know much about bikes, but I know a purty one when I see it—this one looks like it was built out of gorgeous hipster retro odds and ends bought off Velo-orange. And, greenies, note the retired (no pun intended) inner tube now used as a belt [...]


Whole Foods Hot Air.

by on Aug 31, 2009

“When pressed, representatives from the company admitted that the Organic Air was not local. Apparently they tried to source local air, but found that the standards in New Zealand were simply superior and resulted in a lower overall carbon footprint.” With thanks for the tip to Regeneration.


Dearest friends, A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes~ I will keep photoxing…

by on Aug 31, 2009

Let’s start with mem’ries. for more revolution click* a coup d’esprit on October 24th


Whole Foods—and you—support the School Food Project.

by on Aug 31, 2009

We’ve done a ton of posts on Whole Foods and the School Food Project and Ann Cooper before. So it was nice to see it all come together in 3D, last time I was at my local Whole Foods (ne Wild Oats ne Alfalfa’s) getting my ritual organic chips, organic veggie Amy’s chili, organic salsa, [...]


What’s better, Local or Organic?

by on Aug 31, 2009

If I buy a local apple at my farmers’ market that isn’t certified organic, it could be sprayed with chemicals, GMO, what-have-you. So organic’s certainly safer. Still, buying an organic apple that’s been shipped from New Zealand makes me responsible for a helluvalotta food miles, and resultant pollution. So I ask you: what’s better, Local [...]


Happily Never After.

by on Aug 31, 2009

A Tale of Homeless Co-dependence, Dolphins, and Freedom. ~by Jason Curtis You know it’s hard getting to that happily ever after if you weren’t that happy to begin with. I was about 19 when we met, living in a van behind my friend’s house. They were in a band called “Fuct.” (My sentiments, exactly). I’d left [...]


What is Local?

by on Aug 31, 2009

When it comes to local food, Whole Foods has an interesting definition that would seem to be at odds with that of your local farmers’ market. Considering that Americans’ average meal has traveled 1500 miles to get to our plate, and that means we eat more processed food and that the transport causes a great [...]


What would Duzer do? Host A Bike Party.

by on Aug 30, 2009

New Belgium Beer is Free if you Bike, $20 a cup if you drive. Most parties are fun for us, no fun for Mother Earth. We drive. We fill up trash bags. But bike parties are easy. Photos. Duzer is a crazy guy, but a good guy. That’s a great combination. Duzer is, perhaps like [...]


Is Quentin Tarantino an Inglourious Basterd?

by on Aug 30, 2009

Violence as Art? What is the point of this movie!? I take one step out of the theatre with the experience of being bludgeoned in the head with a Louisville Slugger. Such an affect can only be produced by a master shock artist like Quentin Tarantino, this time around the trauma results from his latest [...]


The Vajradhatu Sun.

by on Aug 30, 2009

Quality Buddhist Journalism, as the Vidyadhara Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche envisioned it. When I grew up the Vajradhatu Sun was, with the New York Times and the Daily Camera and Ranger Rick and National Geographic, an everyday source of news and reading in my life. Trungpa Rinpoche, trained in Tibet, trained further in India and at [...]


How To Eat an Elephant, Part 1 — reinventing Elephant in service to all beings

by on Aug 30, 2009

First is a series of blogs on re-visioning, re-strategizing and re-inventing elephantjournal.com in service to all. ~Cameron Burgess elephant journal has been around for a while — almost eight years (I think). I first discovered them in 2003, when the magazine was still growing and being published. I have no idea how — it was [...]


Star Wars Yoga. > Ovaspray.

by on Aug 30, 2009

Tell your children: Stars Wars does Yoga, they should too! Star Wars is Silly and Cool and Out of this World. So is Yoga. By Ovaspray. Update: our friend Jeffrey just did a post inspired by this one (and his is much better, and has much more to it). Click here for Star Wars Kirtan by [...]


Star Wars Kirtan. > Ovaspray.

by on Aug 30, 2009

No idea what this is about, but always love seeing yoga, or spiritual practice, or kirtan or ancient traditions come together in hip, humorous, well-executed way with modern pop culture. Click here for Storm Troopers heart Yoga.


A perfect Sunday in Boulder, Colorado: Hill Flea, Burnt Toast.

by on Aug 30, 2009

You may not want fleas or burnt toast…unless you’re in Boulder. For the best in community, the fun of a big farmers’ market and the deals of Goodwill, check out the Hill Flea. There’s also art, lovely people, crazy fun music, and deals better than anything this side of craigslist. You can’t get greener than [...]


Only in Boulder? As seen at Lazy Dog.

by on Aug 29, 2009

My kind of sports bar.


Teddy Kennedy: Videos.

by on Aug 29, 2009

Ted Kennedy was a Lion, a great man with a big heart, an imperfect man who famously said that imperfection is no excuse for not going out and serving others. Obama says it best, perhaps, below. A legacy worth reflecting on, particularly as we consider whether, or not, health care is a right, or a [...]


Reflections on becoming a grandfather

by on Aug 29, 2009

Last Saturday I became a grandfather.  I’d known about him for a quite a while, but the reality of my grandson completely overwhelmed the intellectual concept that I had of him a mere few hours before.  Seeing my son holding his son in his arms was one of the most incredible and beautiful things I’d [...]


Photo tour: A Walk through University Bikes, Boulder, Colorado.

by on Aug 29, 2009

Photo tour: A Walk through the number one bike shop in the number one bike town in the US of A. Quite possibly the best bike shop on planet earth, U Bikes has received every bike dollar me and my staff and friends and ex-girlfriends have spent in the last 10 years. Why? They don’t [...]


Childhood friends, reunited for an hour.

by on Aug 28, 2009

Jesse Grimes, Noel McLellan & Waylon Lewis. At Hapa Sushi, Boulder, August, 2009. What happens when you age, we’re just discovering, is that you’re continually wide-eyed at every birthday. I’m 32?! I’m 33! I’m 34?! WTF, I’m 35. It keeps happening. Before you know it you’re your parents. You have children. You hair is thinning [...]


Ancient Pervy Japanese Porn. I mean, Art. (Shunga)

by on Aug 28, 2009

The Japanese are elegant. Simple. Always have been. They’re also enthusiastically pervy, as anyone who’s had the (mis)fortune to see their modern cartoons or hear about their dirty schoolgirl underwear vending machines knows all too well. Shunga, or traditional woodblock art, combines the two—it’s the often stunning, sometimes grotesque, always intimate, occasionally homosexual, somehow-exciting-though-it’s-ancient-and-wildly-foreign art [...]


The Community Carbon Project: Upcycling our Glass Waste.

by on Aug 28, 2009

*Upcycling: the act of transforming a recyclable material into a reusable item and the most efficient form of recycling The Community Carbon Project [CCP] is all about “upcycling” . If upcycling is, as Wikipedia simply states, “a reinvestment in the environment,” Boulder, Colorado is growing richer by the day, thanks to CCP’s Ryan Rosburg and [...]


Scientist Receives Threats for Speaking Out About Monsanto?! [via OCA]

by on Aug 28, 2009

Did a Scientist Warning of Health Hazards of Monsanto’s Herbicide Receive Threats? “I expected a reaction, but not such a violent one.” by Sarah Miller


Fight Cancer with this Common Spice! ~ Dr. John Douillard.

by on Aug 28, 2009

Here’s an article from a longtime columnist and friend of elephant, the famous Dr. John Douillard. Who knew how powerful this common spice really is? Quick, run over to your spice cabinet and get healthy now. For more great articles by Dr. John Douillard, check out LifeSpa. ~ Lindsey Block Fighting Cancer with Ayurveda. For thousands [...]


Overthrow Your Mind! A coup d’esprit on October 24th.

by on Aug 28, 2009

Look around. There’s something *you* can do. Something revolutionary, but not necessarily new. Have you heard about the number 350? If not, welcome back. It’s time to dive in and start talking about an ideological revolution beginning October 24th. Why? Because you reap what you sow. What you sew. It’s for real this time. No, [...]


Photos: a Boulder Friday Night Review.

by on Aug 28, 2009

T Bar Lingerie Swimwear Fashion Show/Benefit at Mr. Pool. And, BMOCA hosts Art District. Last night, I got to go out. For the last year, transforming elephant from eco magazine into eco-er web site, I haven’t been able to wine and dine and party the way I’d like to. Gone are the days when I [...]


Ideal Bite’s shopping guide for Dorm-outfitting College Kids.

by on Aug 28, 2009

Nothing’s greener (or saves more green) than buying from your local craigslist, or Goodwill, Salvation Army, flea markets or yard sales. That said, here’s a great green shopping guide for Dorm-outfitting College Kids via Ideal Bite. Why’s this green crap important? Because each generation is supposed to be better than the last. We’re supposed to [...]


Richard Freeman! Waylon Lewis. Kasey of Yogamates.com covers the Boulder yoga scene.

by on Aug 28, 2009

Right before Wanderlust Festival, lovely Kasey of Yogamates.com came through Boulder and interviewed Yoga master Richard Freeman and I. Here’s the video. Click here to see the rest of Kasey’s yoga video voyage through America. Bonus, our friends at Om Time and Carbon Project:


The Mindless Life: If you fall off the path…

by on Aug 28, 2009

This picture was taken either minutes before or minutes after I puked on Blackberry. I think. As in, I think I remember puking on my Blackberry, but let’s face it, if you’re drunk enough to puke on your Blackberry, your memory is not going to be up to par. (Time to get an Iphone?) I [...]


According to the report, over the past 20 years, the wide-ranging, largely migratory hippies have more than tripled in population, insidiously infiltrating nearly every other U.S. subculture while venturing far beyond their natural Vermont and Colorado habitats.

by on Aug 27, 2009

Things look bad. Cull the hippie herd? Spray at Phish concerts? Over at The Onion, America’s most trusted news source, this new threat to our ecosystem is addressed in scurilous detail—including a shout-out for Boulder, elephant’s once hummus-rich hometown. Experts say the hippie-related environmental damage has largely been the result of their sheer numbers. Long regarded [...]


A Photo tour of a Sunny Afternoon at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.

by on Aug 27, 2009

Naropa University, August 2009. The other day I was at Naropa for a meeting. Inspired after said meeting, I biked about the main Arapahoe campus (there are two other Naropa campuses in town) and took a few dozen iPhotos. It’s a plot of land with a lot of crazy wisdom and Beat history, and yet [...]


Same Dress, Different Day: The Uniform Project reinvents sustainable style for a good cause.

by on Aug 27, 2009

The Little Black Dress — a staple in the wardrobes of many a female. But could you rock the LBD for 365 days in a row? Creative, eco-happy Brooklynite Sheena Matheikin decided to give it a try in an impressive display of sustainable style meets wearable art. From The Uniform Project website: I have pledged [...]


Joshua Onysko, as seen after prAna Fashion Show.

by on Aug 27, 2009

For farrrr more professional photos (these shots were taken by yours truly, with my iPhone), click here.


“Ecological garden tractor.”

by on Aug 27, 2009

Get one for your father-in-law.


I’z about to Eliminate your Carbon Footprintz.

by on Aug 27, 2009

We may take out the Polar Bears—they’re scheduled for extinction before your children have children—but like the noble mighty native Sioux they’ll take a few of us out before they go.


Going Green is bad Ass.

by on Aug 27, 2009

Second in a series of my surprisingly controversial Hummers are Gay!? post: Going Green is Bad Ass. You think you’re tough? Do the right thing? Big Hummers are for lazy fat senseless Americans, and that ain’t you.


I has a Icecap.

by on Aug 27, 2009

I can haz Cheezburger? Yes, you can haz: but you can’t haz your natural habitat, ’cause we be warming our globes.


Stretch Prius.

by on Aug 27, 2009

America loves to take perfectly fine, eco-responsible products and put engines and gas in ‘em. Weed cutter? Dust sucker? Snow blower? Here’s the stretch Prius (particularly popular in LA, I’m sure). Via Found Shit.


Here’s what Chip Giller thinks of so-called Global Warming.

by on Aug 27, 2009

Chip Giller, founder of Grist.org, is onto the whole green eco climate change liberal whacko scam…as you can see, ironically, on this bleached but 10 percent recycled plastic-lidded to-go cup from Starbucks. Funniest thing of all is, if a Republican read this text, they’d likely be converted to the whole “liberal” conspiracy. Industry? Innovation? Jobs? [...]


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