When Coke buys Odwalla or Pepsi buys Naked Juice, The Man dumbs the product down. It's no longer quite so high-quality, quite so green -- because The Man is about the bottom lines, not triple bottom lines.
If University of Colorado students had their way, Valerie Mitchell, an unknown candidate running for Boulder City Council, would be the city's new mayor.
John Mackey is finally losing me. His statements on climate change represents The Whole Foods CEO's latest foot-in-mouth jaunt through self-delighted devil's-advocate frankness.
"Even your parking garage has a Twitter account!" my friend Liz from Sacramento exclaimed from the back seat. Yes, Boulder's parking garages have a Twitter presence. So does our police department.
I grew up knowing Pema Chodron (the second most popular Buddhist in America, after that Dalai Lama guy). Or, rather, she knew me (I was just a little kid running around not paying attention to anything).
I do like to eat, but (as an uncivilized bachelor) I don't know how to cook or much care about cooking. That is, until Michael Pollan, told about the key to saving the food situation.
Studies like the FSA report need to look beyond the dinner plate and recognize that organic farming's avoidance of chemicals offers health benefits beyond nutrition.
The film, inspires me -- a lazy non-cooking nacho-loving but environmentally-concerned bachelor -- to start getting active with food issues and learn to cook.
Even if your idea of being a foodie is, like me, putting together some organic veggie nachos, you'll dig how eloquently, warmly and straightforwardly Michael Pollan communicates to the masses.
Just three active months on Twitter later, I've gained 4,900 followers -- and, more importantly, Twitter is among my web site's top ten traffic sources.
The nun behind Dead Man Walking, the best-selling book and movie offers a Christianity that's about mercy, compassion, forgiveness, humor. "It's all about waking up," Sister Helen says.
American Apparel's fashion sense is personal, retro, preppy, cute, disco, outre. Whatever their designers want to wear, it seems, they figure we'll want to wear. And most of the time they're right.
When our news is filled with the karmic results of our "Greed is Good!" ways (AIG, Merril Lynch, Madoff and Ponzi schemes), I personally find it helpful to turn back to my Buddhist tradition.
Who wants "All-American" weak 68 calorie yellow beer trucked halfway around the US? I'd rather drink...water. These days, I'm trying to green my drinking habits.
A mainstream talk show would reach millions of Americans each night, and in so doing, do for green interests what Jon Stewart has done for politics: make it accessible.
YouTube is full of Hooters-esque models (barely) in bikinis doing yoga. But unless you're a 12-year-old boy, it's best to scratch the surface - you'll find thousands of years of knowledge.