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By elephant on May 16, 2008 in blog, the arts | 1 Comment
The trailer, flanking a small herd of junked cars and trucks, caught my attention with a silver glint of reflected midday sun as I…
By elephant on May 10, 2008 in videos | 0 Comments
Bill Ritter is a liberal in a conservative state, and a pro-life Catholic in a pro-choice party. He's also an environmentalist as we found at his recent address hosted by CU.
By elephant on May 6, 2008 in blog, the arts | 0 Comments
Wandering home on the way from doing errands, the overcast cold of the spring day is disappointing. But as I turn down an alley,…
By elephant on May 5, 2008 in non-new agey spirituality, videos | 0 Comments
Everyone's a little terrified of intimacy, but at the same time we all want it. What gives?
By elephant on May 1, 2008 in videos | 0 Comments
Buddhist principles can help you succeed in business—and business can help the world.
mukara-merideth
By elephant on Apr 30, 2008 in videos | 0 Comments
Porch Front Homes: an example of how green demand is shaping a new eco-market.
By elephant on Apr 30, 2008 in videos | 0 Comments
Inside Waylon's Head
By elephant on Apr 30, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
One little baby in that incredible and gorgeous globe of a belly?! The amazement at this most ordinary of miracles had us all in…
By elephant on Apr 30, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
Strut the Talk. Show your Support. Get yours at Boulder Bodywear, The T Bar, Om Time Yoga or, if you’re not in Boulder, online.…
By elephant on Apr 28, 2008 in videos | 1 Comment
Kirtan is auditory yoga and Wade is yoga's rockstar (and Alanis' bro)
By elephant on Apr 24, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
Today, April 22, is Earth Day. And for the first time, it doesn’t feel all that different from any other day of the year.…
By elephant on Apr 24, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
Before the green movement and even before the internet, we holistic-minded, eco-savvy moms were pretty much on our own. Raising two daughters in southern…
By elephant on Apr 24, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
Most recently seen on MTV’s Real World, touring the cast through their new green home, Summer Rayne Oakes is no stranger to bridging the…
By elephant on Apr 24, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
We go to Hooper Pool for an after-work swim in the hot spring water, and float around among the smooching teenagers, the yelling kids…
By elephant on Apr 24, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
Like most people, Alex King, ele’s videoman, is full of contradictions. On one hand, he’s passionate about getting the word out about the climate…
By elephant on Apr 24, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
You can now buy elephant at Powell’s Books in Portland (the largest indie used and new bookstore in the country), at Hudson News in…
By elephant on Apr 24, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
Hosted for the Center for Conflict Resolution at Columbia University, Pema Chodron (recently interviewed by Oprah) will give a Friday evening talk on June…
By elephant on Apr 24, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
Some folks feel the words “Olympics” and “sports” should never share the same sentence with “politics” and “protest.” They vent their comments online, calling…
By elephant on Apr 16, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
Our recent interviews with environmental big-wigs Paul Hawken and Lester Brown show two very different approaches to saving the planet. On one hand, Paul…
By elephant on Apr 16, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
Many of my friends headed straight to grad school after college, but not me. I’m a fan of real-world learning, rather than dropping thousands…
By elephant on Apr 16, 2008 in blog | 6 Comments
After 5.5 years of writing hopefully witty, hopefully insightful, hopefully-informative-to-new-readers, yet hopefully still-interesting-to-longtime-ones Editor's Letters in each issue of the magazine, I'm thinking of handing…
By elephant on Apr 15, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
The response to Obama's statements about voters being bitter is not exactly having the effect Clinton wanted, but at least this primary is almost…
By elephant on Apr 14, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
On ABC's This Week, The Bush Admin's brainiac Stephen Hadley confuses the two countries - Nepal and Tibet - while discussing the ongoing Olympics…
By elephant on Apr 14, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
For all you eco-minded hipsters with your skinny jeans and bright colored shirts... Thanks for the tip Evan. VIA KANYE'S BLOG…
By elephant on Apr 14, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
Why do we love flea markets? Because flea markets mean vintage, re-used, hand-made, one-of-a-kind clothing and furniture. The polar opposite of walking into a…
By elephant on Apr 11, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
Via Working Assets/Credo We'll Deliver Your Signature in Person to the FCC Next Week Without net neutrality legislation, telecom companies will be free to choke…
By elephant on Apr 11, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
VIA WASHINGTON REALIST It's interesting how politicians are quick to paint China as the one to blame for all the troubles and human rights…
By elephant on Apr 10, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
In a follow up to slideshow "the inconvenient truth", Al Gore presents some new material on TED last week. …
By elephant on Apr 10, 2008 in videos | 1 Comment
elephant journal’s editor, Waylon Lewis, welcomes Patagonia—the eco outdoor apparel company that’s paved the way for mindful businesses everywhere—to the green streets of Boulder, Colorado.
By elephant on Apr 10, 2008 in blog | 1 Comment
McCain
says that he wouldn’t attend the Olympics, if he were President—demonstrating guts that we have yet to see from Senator Clinton or Senator Obama. [Context: China is besmirching the ideals of the Olympics—int’l cooperation—by hosting the Olympics in their human-rights-smothering Communist nation founded by Mao, who killed more than Stalin and Hitler combined, and took over Tibet in 1959].
By elephant on Apr 10, 2008 in blog | 1 Comment
“elevision: ”elephant journal’s weekly talk show Every Wednesday: live interviews with people worth listening to, organic drinks, networking and live music! In the back of…
By elephant on Apr 10, 2008 in blog, blogofday | 17 Comments
“Bhakti” is Sanskrit for “devotion,” never a luke-warm feeling. So it’s fitting that Brook Eddy’s Bhakti Chai comes from the Masala lineage, which means…
By elephant on Apr 10, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
Want to work for elephant? We're looking for an ad sales manager to assist publisher Waylon H. Lewis in keeping ele surviving and thriving.…
By elephant on Apr 10, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
VIA THE NYTIMES.COM TOKYO — The Dalai Lama said Thursday that he supported Beijing’s hosting of the Summer Olympics, but he insisted that pro-Tibetdemonstrators…
By elephant on Apr 10, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
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By elephant on Apr 10, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
The days of Americans migrating from cars to ever larger pickup trucks and SUVs may finally be behind us as a perfect storm seems…
By elephant on Apr 10, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
During Earth Hour, eight to nine p.m. on March 30, people across the country shut off their lights to raise awareness for energy conservation.…
By elephant on Apr 10, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
This morning, Olympic organizers in Paris cancelled the last leg of the torch’s run through the city when the route was blocked by thousands…
By elephant on Apr 10, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
We heart Corey Kohn the best Miksang-ish Dharma Brat Photographer ever & Recommend you subscribe to her spacious photo of the week. An afternoon…
By elephant on Apr 10, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
Video of the Week: Mindful Comedy Saving the world is serious business, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have a few laughs. In fact,…
By elephant on Apr 10, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
In Mary Taylor’s upcoming Spring EcoKitchen column, she writes about the “Allure of the New”—the impulse to move onward and upward, simply for the sake…
By elephant on Apr 10, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
[Via Camren von Davis, the Paul Schaffer of elevision, ele’s weekly talk show. For more non-hippie (Waylon is shouting, “I like Hippie music!”) music,…
By elephant on Apr 9, 2008 in blog, blogofday | 0 Comments
James Norwood Pratt is the god of tea. The man who’s made tea an art in the West, not just the East. The man who’s…
By elephant on Apr 9, 2008 in blog | 1 Comment
LONDON:Â British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will skip the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, a spokeswoman said.Wednesday's confirmation from Downing Street puts Brown on…
By elephant on Apr 9, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
VIA GoodMagazine.com Samdhong Rinpoche is often overshadowed by the Dalai Lama, but the Tibetan prime-minister-in-exile is working behind the scenes to secure a future…
By elephant on Apr 9, 2008 in events | 0 Comments
Event Location: Gold Lake Resort, 3371 Gold Lake Rd, Ward, Co 80481 Event Price: Suggested Donation $100/ sliding scale available Event Details: Join the Buffalo…
By elephant on Apr 9, 2008 in blog | 0 Comments
 My mom used to be a commercial actress, so as a kid I spent plenty of time on sets, witness to all the manipulation…
By elephant on Apr 9, 2008 in events | 0 Comments
with Fr. Thomas Keating & Llewellyn Vaughan-LeeFriday Evening Talk & Saturday One-Day SeminarMay 2 - 3, 2008 in Boulder, ColoradoJoin us at this unique meeting…
By elephant on Apr 9, 2008 in events | 0 Comments
Presented by the Association of Health Care Journalists and its Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism MAY 2-4 MissouriSchool of Journalism Columbia, Mo. Nearly…
By elephant on Apr 9, 2008 in events | 0 Comments
On April 5, 2008 Design Project Build invites you to join us in an exhilarating inaugural event brought to you by Boulder Design Festival 2K09.…
