CITES CITES is the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna. It is an international voluntary agreement. When governments sign on, it is legally binding if they implement complementary domestic legislation. CITES has one of the largest international memberships of participating countries among conservation agreements. It was initially adopted in [...]
Adventures and Misadventures of a Month of Storing Trash Keira was the winner of the LA YOGA and Green Yoga Association Mindfulness Challenge, where she accepted what may seem like a crazy directive: save all of your trash for a month in an effort to create more mindfulness and less trash. For her dedication and [...]
Paddling to save pilot whales in Japan and beyond with Surfers for Cetaceans. In October, 2007, a pod of 35 surfers silently slipped into the ocean off the coast of Taiji, where the water washing around their ankles was tainted red, confirming they had reached their destination. Taiji is a small fishing village in Japan, [...]
I actually started to be personally affected by the implications of the scientific information that was coming out,” says British biologist John Stanley. This “information” includes a shocking prediction by the UN Environmental Program and the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)which represents a consensus view of 2,000top climatologists, that the effects of habitatdestruction and [...]
The Adventures And Misadventures of a Month of Storing Trash: The Story of LA YOGA and the Green Yoga Association’s Mindfulness Challenge Winner IT’S SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2009, and today is a good day because it is the last day I will be keeping my trash. I’ve managed to stuff thirty days and thirty nights of [...]
Robert Kiyosaki, Vietnam War veteran turned millionaire entrepreneur and best-selling author of Rich Dad Poor Dad recently teamed up with his sister Emi Kiyosaki, a peace-loving, working mother now known as Ani Tenzin Kacho, ordained Tibetan Buddhist nun. Their new book is Rich Brother, Rich Sister; the topic of which is...money. Ani Kacho recently faced [...]
Practice Pages: Meditation We are at a crucial transition period on our planet Earth. We have grown in numbers, technology and interconnectedness. The result is that we affect each other. We affect each other more than we can even imagine; just as we affect the environment that has sustained us for millennia. The news is full [...]
New Film Looks For Answers to the Mystery of the Disappearing Honeybees and Searches For Solutions We can thank humble honeybees for the bounty we enjoy. From cucumbers to coconuts, almonds to apples, flax to fennel along with numerous other food, oil and fabric crops (including cotton), our lives and fates are intertwined with those [...]
Coloring Our Practice With A Green Hue Helps Us Become More Intimate With Our Environment Earth from Space Our beautiful world seems a bit rough around the edges these days, from pollution, crowding and despair. We may feel helpless in the face of the bad news regarding climate change, species extinctions, chemical poisoning [...]
My platform has always been one of Mindfulness and raising awareness on a subtle level…the type of awareness that if we all made small changes to our daily routine we could generate massive changes. Living in a city, we become accustomed to trash lining the streets. Taking a quick look around, it is [...]