Yoga Pose: Tadasana (Mountain Pose)
By Kerrie Cason

Tada = A Mountain
Asana = Posture

Description of Tadasana (Mountain Pose):

Tadasana is the foundation for all standing poses. At least one foot in every standing pose is in Tadasana. Everything builds from the ground up. When you stand firm and tall as a mountain, you can increase awareness of what’s going on in your own body.

Stand at the top of your mat with your feet together or hips distance apart. Make sure your toes are parallel to your mat. Gently lift all ten toes and spread them as wide as is still comfortable, and then [Read more →]

Sustainable Real Estate Development Catching Hold in New Delhi

NEW DELHI: It has been estimated recently that there are hundreds of millions of people, in fact, a billion plus people, currently living in India, according to the CIA’s World Fact Book. It is not a stretch to say that an idea like Sustainable Real Estate, were it to effectively take hold of a population that large, could provide just the right kind of progress to [Read more →]

Will Lake Mead Evaporate By the Year 2021?

Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have asserted that it is fifty per cent likely that Lake Mead will end up going completely dry within 13 years, or by the year 2021.

Lake Mead, which hedges the border between both Arizona and Nevada, was originally created with help from the Colorado River as well as the Hoover Dam. Tim Barnett and David Pierce, the researchers responsible for the study’s assertion, argue that the cause can be attributed to climate change and the increase in human demand for water.

Lake Mead, Lake Powell and Impending Doom

Between Lake Mead and Lake Powell (bordering both Arizona and Utah), aqueducts stem out and carry water from these systems to a variety of important and notable cities in the western United States and Southwestern communities. These include Los Angeles and Las Vegas, in addition to many others.

Further negative assertions from the recent study include [Read more →]

Solar Water Heaters

Sometimes known as solar domestic hot water systems, solar water heaters are an eco-friendly and cheaper way to heat the water used in your home for things like showers, baths and hot water cycles in the washing machine. Solar water heaters are functional in all climates, and because they are essentially powered by sunlight, they do not cost anything in terms of generating power.

How Solar Water Heaters Function

Solar water heaters typically run off of a two-part system that includes a solar collector as well as a storage tank. While passive solar water heaters do not have circulating pumps and control, active solar water heaters do. The storage tank must be insulated well, and [Read more →]

Why House Plants Are Good for the Inside Home Environment

It is known to many that the Environmental Protection Agency has determined that potentially hundreds of organic, damaging chemicals are at any given time taking up residence inside of homes and buildings. They make their way to us in the air we breathe, and take up space in our residence as they off-gas from walls, ceilings, clothing, carpet and even the furniture. Another cause for tremendous worry? Maybe not. Offsetting the damaging effects of these gases can be as simple as bringing a bit of live greenery into the home.


Having plants inside the home can benefit the inhabitants for a variety of reasons. But perhaps most importantly, house plants can [Read more →]

The Lowdown on Baggy Shirts: Reusable Bags for Shopping in Style

BaggyShirts is a company that creates reusable bags that are actually made from recycled clothing. They take the reduce-reuse-recycle slogan to another level with this eco-friendly business.

According to their site, “BaggyShirts tote bags can be used as grocery bags, bike bags, yoga bags, wine bags — use your imagination!”

Reusable Bags Made From Old Cotton Shirts?

Founded by Jan Ramos and Dana Miller, “friends and next-door neighbors who became extremely concerned about the serious state of our precious Planet Earth” one day in Denver. Like many, Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth film was the call to action — specifically the words from the film’s co-producer Laurie David, who said in an interview for each person listening to do one thing in order to help reverse the effects of climate change. [Read more →]

Paper or Plastic: Which Do You Choose?

So which will it be then, paper OR plastic, hmmm? The question is tough to avoid, unless you’ve figured out how to eat without EVER going to the grocery store. Chances are, most of us haven’t given the choice too much thought – or if we have, we remained clueless as to which was the lesser of the two evils. Understanding the impact that paper and plastic bags have on the environment is a great place to start. Inevitably, consciousness will lead you to purchase a canvas or otherwise re-useable bag for your grocery shopping, but educating yourself on the differences between paper and plastic is also a smart idea.

The Troubles With Paper Bags

It’s common knowledge that paper comes from trees that are found and later felled by the logging industry. Logging involves machines — from the machines used to remove the trees from the forests, to the logging trucks or helicopters involved in the process of harvesting, to the machines used to strip the bark – and like anything involving machines, fossil fuels are not far behind. [Read more →]

Burt’s Bees Natural Beeswax Products
Many of you already know about Burt’s Bees, a company whose mission and vision states directly – they’re on the planet to “make people’s lives better every day – naturally.” The company creates an Earth-friendly, personal care line of products, all of which are crafted from “time-tested, proven recipes using ingredients that are the best nature has to offer: beeswax, botanical and essential oils, herbs, flowers and minerals.”

My personal favorite is the Beeswax Lip Balm ($3), which includes “ingredients like ultra-emollient lanolin, coconut oil and sunflower oil, and seals in hydration with beeswax,” which is made naturally by bees. You never get that metallic taste that often happens when you get other lip balms on your tongue, and the tingle of peppermint is always nice. When the weather gets dry and windy in fall and winter, nothing works quite as well as Burt’s Bees Beeswax Lip Balm.

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On the Subject of Cell-Level Healing

Dr. Joyce Hawkes, a biophysicist and cell-biologist by training, completed her doctorate in Biophysics at The Pennsylvania State University. She was later awarded a postdoctoral Fellow with the National Institutes of Health.

Hawkes is currently a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. During her 15 years of work through that association, she has earned an international reputation for her scientific contributions in the field of ultra high-speed laser effects on cells, and the effects of environmental pollutants on cells. She has published 36 peer-reviewed scientific papers.

Question Posed to Dr. Joyce Hawkes on Cell-Level Healing
Taken from the Website of Dr. Joyce Hawkes.

What do you mean by Cell-Level Healing? Most people understand that if our cells are healthy, we are healthy, and if our cells are sick, we’re sick. Are you suggesting there’s more to it than that? [Read more →]

Green Owl Records Puts Out Environmental Charity Album

Green Owl Records recently put out a benefit compilation CD for the Energy Action Coalition, a team of 48 members and an active council of representatives from partner organizations and program developments for sustainable energy solutions. Energy Action , which is a founding partner of 1 Sky Platform, formed an alliance with other groups supporting young activists in climate change and environmentalism.

The Green Owl Comp: A Benefit for Energy Action

The featured bands are a hodgepodge of artists so different in genre listeners might wonder who put the mix together in the first place. However, they certainly have good taste ranging from chart-topping acts to eclectically eccentric groups to unheard-of newbies. Muse, Harper Simon, Citizens Band, Of Montreal, School of Seven Bells, Violens, Feist, Bloc Party, Deerhoof, The Exit and The Appletrees all show up on the 16 tracks of the first disc. The second disc features a DVD component containing video footage of Billy Parish from Energy Action, 6 music videos and bonus tracks from CSS and A Place to Bury Strangers.

Green Owl has 100% recycled packaging and understands the need for more enviro-friendly music practices, such as getting people to recycle plastic jewel cases and keep them out of landfills. So while this music collection may seem a bit disparate, it’s still got some good tunes and a charitable cause.

Look at the list of tracks on the CD, available at Whole Foods Market.

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