I Have a Yoga Crush on Elena Brower.
by Kathryn Budig on Jan 31, 2010
Move over, Waylon. I have a yoga crush on Elena Brower. I must start by saying how grateful I am for this social networking age we live in. Facebook and Twitter have given me the opportunity to connect with fabulous fellow teachers around the world that I have yet to meet and practice with. One [...]
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Sweetly Creative, Sustainable Valentine’s Day Gifts.
by Lasara Allen on Jan 31, 2010
Give your loved ones sweetly creative, inexpensive, sustainable gifts that will make them smile the whole year round!
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That tone of civility you hear…
by Nathan Smith on Jan 31, 2010
One of the big issues that Barack Obama campaigned on was a change of tone in Washington politics. He promised a to make a real effort at bipartisanship, to eliminate some of the most blatantly profiteering and money-grubbing aspects of politics, and to try to “disagree without being disagreeable.” But, then came the reality of [...]
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Hey, what makes “Me” a Yogi, anyway?!
by Saraswati J. on Jan 31, 2010
What makes you a yogi?! Do you call yourself one?! by Sarah Miller Oh how the ego loooves itself and oh, how the ego gets carried away at times. Yogis take themselves far too seriously [note to "Self"]. What constitutes a yogi anyway? Do you use this word Proudly? Flippantly? Sparingly? Do you refer to [...]
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The Liberty Songbook (It’s a War on War!)
by Joana Smith on Jan 30, 2010
It was your Birthday this week. so we threw a party for you, and there was singing! You are just one year older… …but they do begin to build up. We have two kids of our own now, honey, can you believe it? It seems like just yesterday when we were in school… Time flies. [...]
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Guess where your American Flag is made.
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 30, 2010
Outsourcing Patriotism. Interdependence? Or hypocrisy? I’ll go with the latter: here’s one area where environmentalists and liberals and Republicans and chest-thumping tea partiers should all be able to agree: let’s keep the manufacture of Old Glory in these United States. Via Newsweek:
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Osama bin Laden goes Green!
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 30, 2010
And, quotes Noam Chomsky. In other news, Hell freezes Over. One hero the Green movement doesn’t want: Osama Bin Laden! From the Department of WTF. You know “green” has made it as a global issue when Osama “I care about the plight of innocent humanity” bin Laden tries to use public concern about Global Warming [...]
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“Lungta.”
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 30, 2010
This was emailed, with the above title, and without further explanation, to the international Shambhala Buddhist community recently. I clicked on the link, and found “Never Underestimate an Old Gal.” And I’ve been smiling ever since. Wonderful, a great mental health break and reminder that we’re only as stuck and fragile as we allow ourselves [...]
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President Obama + Republicans go at it—with respect. {Video}
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 30, 2010
“An Open Discussion Across the Aisle” Click here for NY Times coverage: “Off Script, Obama and the G.O.P. Vent Politely” This is my kind of democracy. This is something that hasn’t happened in decades—well, hardly ever. Making like the British Prime Minister, President Obama chose to directly engage his Republican un-fans in an extended, open [...]
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More wisdom in less time.
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 29, 2010
As seen on Facebook: an ad reading: “…Top Personal Growth Product of 2010: PhilosophersNotes – more wisdom in less time.” Spiritual Materialism…or Accessible Practicality meets Self-Help? We here at elephant are on the fence when it comes to spiritual products like The Secret…the materialistic focus seems out of place on a path or system of [...]
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JD Salinger: My Man, My Myth, My Legend. ~Megan Johnson
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 29, 2010
One day after Professor Howard Zinn passed away, we lose one of our greatest, and most reclusive writers: JD Salinger. If you haven’t read his work, what there is of it, do. Take the time, you’ll enjoy and cherish it. From JD Salinger: Tribute ~via Waylon Lewis We collect our “firsts” like official badges of our memories. [...]
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Boulder: We’re rippin’ up Broadway, have an opinion? [Open House Monday on Campus]
by Caroline Clark on Jan 29, 2010
Boulder folks may have heard that in the summer of 2011, construction will begin on Broadway from Euclid to 18th St. The basic idea is to put an underpass at 16th street, relocate and expand some transit stops, but in an intersection at 18th St, and improve the paths. This Monday there will be a [...]
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Twitter, Social Media, Green: The Shorty Interview with Waylon Lewis of @elephantjournal
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 29, 2010
What’s your best tweet? Hard 2 say, I send 40 a day. The best ones pass along useful info—or provide spark of levity or wisdom in our ADHD workaday lives. What are six things you could never do without? Water? Food? Bicycle? Laptop? Cafes? Mom? Love. How do you use Twitter in your professional life? [...]
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The Donut Story. ~ Dr. Sharada Hall
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 29, 2010
I’ve told the Donut Story to dozens of my patients over the years. Sometimes I call it “Enlightenment in a Heapful of Glazed Donuts” because it wasn’t until my teacher ordered me to admit and give in to this denied desire that I realized how blindly and foolishly principled I had become. It perfectly illustrates [...]
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Self Exploitation of the Hipster Bod. American Apparel Judges Best Bottoms.
by Lindsey Block on Jan 29, 2010
Objectification? My ass. American Apparel’s best butt contest: Is it objectification if you do it to yourself? They would. {Via twitter} @AmericanApparel Do you have the Best Bottom in the World? Show American Apparel your assets and vote here http://bit.ly/dntPAb “The Search for the Best Bottom in the World.” Only 209 submissions so far? I [...]
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The Act of Touch, Doing the Kartuli in Post-Soviet Georgia. ~ Elizabeth Atwell
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 29, 2010
I am in my fourth lesson of Georgian folk dance. That’s post-Soviet Georgia, land of wine, pomegranates and polyphonic music, where men dance on the knuckles of their toes and leap through the air at great heights. I am in Tbilisi continuing a year of research on Georgian dance, and my classmates’ range from age 17 [...]
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Don’t Flush Drinking Water! (Grey is Green). ~ via Water Legacy
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 29, 2010
Grey is Green: VaST architecture works with Thistle Community Housing to cut water use by 30 percent. Today 30% of the fresh water consumption of the average American home is used to flush toilets. We can no longer afford to flush our toilets with drinking water. Grey Water recycling must be an integral part of [...]
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Find A Yoga Class Anywhere (in NY) with iPhone App Yoga Local.
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 29, 2010
An-untested-review-of-iPhone-app-Local-Yokel-I-mean-YogaLocal via Claire Flannery: This (read below) would be a really awesome iPhone app for all the yogis in the country if it weren’t strictly limited to New York City, San Francisco & L.A. Great idea, but get it all over the effing country! “Anywhere”? not so much. Are you a busy, part-time yogi, full-timer [...]
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TOP 20 DANCE SONGS OF 2009 (We Have Band, Basment Jaxx, Noisettes, Britney Spears, Calvin Harris)
by Anna Gilkerson on Jan 29, 2010
It’s fun scrolling through my 2009′s. Another best dance? YES PLEASE. 2008 for some reason got google on board and we had a party. 2010 mix here Again these are in order of play. You can click on the song title to listen. 1. GOSSIP: Heavy Cross- From the Album Music for Men this is [...]
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Fly the Ayurvedic Skies. ~ Dr. Sharada Hall
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 29, 2010
With 4 hours to wait for my connection at the Tampa Airport, I’m left thinking about how to make this experience as Ayurvedic as possible. Travel, by definition, aggravates Vata dosha, the wind principal. Travel is movement, and air travel in particular, with the radiation exposure and high speed travel through space, sends one’s Vata [...]
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Finding Soul Fire in Post-Soviet Georgia. ~ Elizabeth Atwell
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 29, 2010
There are different kinds of heat in this part of the world. There is the summer sweat, when stifling, humid temperatures climb throughout spring and reach their peak on cement roads in public transport, bodies smashed against one another between bus or metro stops. Women wave fans in their faces trying to propel the salty [...]
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The Zen of Social Business Success: Greyston Bakery.
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 28, 2010
Brownies for a Healthier Society! Greyston Bakery video (at bottom), via Good Magazine. Greyston, founded by Roshi Glassman, a wild and crazy and sweet and actively-not-just-philosophically compassionate Zen teacher, is a wild success story—and it makes the world a better place with every yummy bite. The full story: Excerpt via Ascent Magazine …In 1979, after [...]
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eHarmony forced to admit gay people exist
by John Pappas on Jan 28, 2010
Oh eHarmony, there was always something about you that I didn’t like. I wasn’t sure if it was the annoying commercials, the latent Christian Right agenda or that annoying old guy who seems to be in desperate needs of getting laid. Then it dawned on me. It was the rampant homophobia… It seems that the [...]
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Conan’s Final (serious) Thoughts.
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 28, 2010
Cynicism: My Least Favorite Quality In his last clip on the grand dame of comedy, The Tonight Show, Conan gets grateful, serious, teary, and exhorts his fans not to ever be cynical. As powerful as late night gets:
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Jeffrey Smith Tells It Like It Is: Say No to GMO’s.
by Saraswati J. on Jan 28, 2010
My dear friend, Jeffrey Smith, is on a roll. Well, actually, he has been for years… by Sarah Miller
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J.D. Salinger: Tribute.
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 28, 2010
One day after Professor Howard Zinn passed away, we lose one of our greatest, and most reclusive writers: JD Salinger. If you haven’t read his work, what there is of it, do. Take the time, you’ll enjoy and cherish it. Breaking News Alert The New York Times Thu, January 28, 2010 — 1:17 PM ET [...]
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Darius Goes West: A Documentary with a Cause. ~Claire Lochridge
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 27, 2010
I didn’t mean to spend my Thursday afternoon watching a movie. I definitely didn’t mean to spend it boohooing like I was watching my baby brother leave for college (the first time). You know, that awkward wide-grinned but furrowed-brow cry that happens when you watch something heart-wrenching and suddenly you realize you’ve cried a wet [...]
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Dr. Weil Speaks About Health Care Issues.
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 27, 2010
Dr. Andrew Weil speaks about health care in Denver in 2008. He cites two major flaws in the American health care system and offers alternatives. The first flaw is in our strategy of managing disease rather than preventing it: I would say we don’t have a health care system. I would say we have a [...]
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President Obama’s First State of the Union Address. {Complete Video}
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 27, 2010
Thanks to Ecopolitology’s head up, I started watching President Obama’s first State of the Union on Hulu, live, on my laptop, at home (in the bath, with Vodka 14) where I could pay attention and hear what’s being said, instead of the usual gathering at a noisy (and fun) crowded bar in downtown Boulder (further [...]
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iSangha ~ Experiencing Buddhism Online
by John Pappas on Jan 27, 2010
Being stuck out here in Buddhist Purgatory, we look towards the internet and emerging media for ways of learning and experiencing the Dharma. This one was brought to my attention by a frien and it is quite comprehensive. Offered by the Contemplative Order of Compassion , the blog post below explains most of what it is about ~ The [...]
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Tribute: Howard Zinn.
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 27, 2010
We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. ~Howard Zinn “His writings have changed the consciousness of a generation, and helped open new paths to understanding and its crucial meaning for our lives” ~ Noam [...]
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Project Haiti: Yoga 4 Trauma.
by Nancy Alder on Jan 27, 2010
Maggie Juliano of Sprout Yoga and Sue Jones of YogaHope have rallied the yoga troops to create Project Haiti: Yoga 4 Trauma to provide long term self-sustaining mind-body trauma recovery programs to aid those suffering the affects of the devastating earthquake in Haiti. This newly formed project has been galvanizing the yoga and trauma community [...]
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Is the iPad green-ish?
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 27, 2010
The iPad, savior of media, is green! (Within the context of toxic consumption-happy electronics, that is). You can read anything, comfortably, on it. Goodbye Kindle. You can sit on it. You can drop it. You can unlock it. You can attach a keyboard to it. But will it !@#$%^ us up? If the iPad kills [...]
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It’s…The Dovekins! Walk the Talk Show w/Waylon Lewis, hosted by Naropa University.
by Walk The Talk Show on Jan 27, 2010
Video: Una Morera, Alex King, Jordan Schevene. Event: Lindsey Cash I like to think I was among the Dovekins‘ first handful of groupies. [slide] Now they have hundreds, closing in on thousands of ardent fans…they’re fun to dance to, fun to be around, silly, sweet, professional, talented, stylish, creative, poetical, real, going places yet grounded, [...]
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Boulder, Colorado: Local Nonprofit holds event for the Future of Uganda.
by Lindsey Block on Jan 27, 2010
In the midst of the Haiti crisis, it’s tough to talk about much else. But during this time when people around the world are opening their hearts (and wallets, thank god) for those in need, it’s important to open up our compassion to those countries in the developing world that have been wrecked by human-caused [...]
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Believe It or Not. ~ Dr. Sharada Hall
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 27, 2010
When it comes to health and healing, I choose to put myself in situations that push the limits of the rational mind. Growth comes from taking ourselves to the edge of our comfort zone, both mentally and physically. Since I always get sick when I go to India and Nepal, I’m given a great chance [...]
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There Will be Bud. {Theatrical Trailer}
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 27, 2010
There will be Blood Bud. (cough) My boyfriend’s a yoga instructor and a vessel for the god Shiva when it comes to the clam bake they won’t be there raise your hips the intonation is perfect the mannerisms from the minds of the Benver Droncos when do we get our ganja I see the worst [...]
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Happiness is a Warm Puppy.
by Kathryn Budig on Jan 27, 2010
Happiness is A Warm Puppy by Kathryn Budig I’m feeling the effects of being a spoiled Southern California resident. We’ve had non-stop rain (in Los Angelenos speak, hell on earth) for the past 3 days and I’ve come down with a sore throat while my dog, Ashi, is getting cabin fever. When I say cabin [...]
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If I see “abuse,” should I report it?
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 26, 2010
The below contemplation was provoked or inspired by my friend Gwen Bell’s recent, deeply personal post re: abuse and witnessing a clearly abusive situation in an airport, and her decision to report that family to the authorities. Click over to her post for a list of resources. If we see what we believe to be [...]
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In Search of a “Mindful” Hotel in San Francisco.
by Insiya Rasiwala-Finn on Jan 26, 2010
yogis in search for an eco-friendly, mindful hotel in san francisco.
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Howl: James Franco as Allen Ginsberg. {Videos}
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 26, 2010
“Today, it is still a violation of FCC obscenity rules to broadcast the words of Howl.” Allen Ginsberg woulda loved the overly hunky, progressive, grounded James Franco playing his poetical breathy self as a young man, following the story of his rise to infamy through the courts of obscenity-afraid America: Video clips from forthcoming movie: [...]
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Earthquake! We seen the earth shake! But the soul of the Haitian people will never break!
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 26, 2010
Hope for Haiti Telethon, iTunes ft. 18 original songs, 140 athletes, actors, musicians. Clooney is my idol. Why? He doesn’t want/need to be my idol. He + DiCaprio donate $1 million each. Organized telethon for Haiti. Earthquake! We seen the earth shake! But the soul of the Haitian people will never break! ~ Wyclef Jean. [...]
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Coal Smackdown: it’s Kennedy v. Blankenship. Complete videos.
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 26, 2010
Appalachia Smackdown. via OhioCitizen: Kennedy said coal operators are only able to compete in the world energy market by shifting onto society the costs of the pollution, workplace safety and climate change impacts of their product. ‘All of these costs are imposed on the rest of us,’ Kennedy said. ‘We should have free markets with [...]
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@elephantjournal wins national 2010 Twitter national Shorty Award in “Green.”
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 26, 2010
Update: we won twitter’s national Shorty Awards in “Green”, for 2010, thanks to our friends and supporters! Note: We’re first in voting for green with only 4 days to go, nationally, in #green. Would be great for recognition to win. Want to support? Just tweet: “I nominate @elephantjournal for a Shorty Award in #green bc…THEN [...]
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Noam Chomsky on Peace, Obama + the Considerable Achievement of Nothing. VBS Video.
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 26, 2010
Martin Luther King, Jr., didn’t inspire him, the students did. Obama accomplished a lot more than most by accomplishing nothing. A punk record re activism that Noam didn’t get, but participated in. VBS sits with Chomsky, one of the great minds of our time.
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Dharma Drinks, Buddhist Brewers and Rapping Monks
by John Pappas on Jan 26, 2010
Its Sunday, early morning and the Buddhists are talking about booze….I am in the Pure Land! For those out there who have made comments about how “stale” and “overly traditional” Buddhism is in Asia, and how the “real” innovation is happening in North America and Europe, here’s an interesting story out of Japan about [...]
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Obama wants me to buy a new (Energy Star) fridge—+ will help me pay for it.
by Liz Benson on Jan 26, 2010
by Liz Benson First, there was Cash for Clunkers and the First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit, later expanded to all home buyers. But, what if you don’t need a new car or want to move? Now, you have another chance to get in on the economic stimulus money – rebates for buying a new [...]
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The Mindful Critic’s Ten Best Films of 2009
by Reverend Danny Fisher on Jan 25, 2010
OK, everybody, here are this year’s picks: 10. Star Trek by J.J. Abrams It’s a mark of Star Trek’s incredible success that it scores big points not only with loyal fans of the venerable TV series and its many spin-offs, but with folks like me, who have no interest in the canon whatsoever. Like Steven [...]
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I’ve got a yoga crush on Hemalayaa Behl.
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 25, 2010
Mindfulness is Attractive. Our staff has authored a series of hard-hitting investigative journalistic “green crushes” here at elephant—on the likes of Treehugger founder Graham Hill, Entourage’s green-lovin’ loverboy Adrian “Greener” Grenier, sweet Summer Rayne Oakes, NASCAR race car drivin’ Leilani Munter; FEED Bag’s Lauren Bush, everywhere-all-at-once yoga teacher Tara Stiles, our friend the green journalist [...]
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Buddhadharma In Everyday Life. Lojong: Four Practices are the Best of Methods, or How to Love Haiti. ~ Linda V. Lewis
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 25, 2010
Everyone is aware of the huge international effort to help Haiti right now. Aid organizations and militaries from around the world are rushing to provide water, food, medical care, and security to the millions of Haitians utterly devastated by the earthquake that struck over a week ago, and from the aftershock a few days ago. [...]
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