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Starbucks is already Fair-Trade. Now, they say they're going green--and supporting local--by 2010.

If they actually do it, I might have to give up my 15-year buycott of Starbucks. I used to dislike...

A few weeks back I got to interview one of my idols (as I mention in the first moments of the interview)--Michael Pollan. Michael, along with Alice Waters and a few thousand farmers and farmers' markets, has led a growing movement to reclaim our food from the growing danger...

Twitter: a free, powerful communications tool for Grassroots Green & Spiritual Organizations.

"You, too, can make Twitter work for you!"

My first few months on twitter, I spent my time making fun of it..."who needs another tech nerd geek web thing I...

Growing up, I was (as are most young punks) half-crazy with hormones, thoughts, adrenaline, ambition and insecurity.

What got me through those days? A great mom. Some great, patient girlfriends. Basketball, and...

My interview with Sister Helen Prejean.

Breaking News: Swaha! I just got word this morning, via Twitter, that Sri K. Pattabhi Jois has passed away at his residence in India following a brief illness. He was 93. Full report at elephantjournal.com/pattabhijois with additional photos, anecdotes, remembrances, videos.

The passing of this beloved...

I've only been on Twitter for say five months...and it took me the first few months--until I started using Tweetdeck (advice and link here)--to get Twitter.

For those of you who are still holding back from this latest greatest fastest virtual communications tool, I say: go for it....

Pass it on: The Cove may be the best, most worthwhile yet thoroughly entertaining movie you haven't seen yet. Winner of the Sundance 2009 Audience Award, The Cove is an "eco-thriller" documentary via Lionsgate, produced by a bunch of friends and acquaintances including filmmaker, Louie Psihoyos, right here...

I've been a fan of American Apparel for years. Its founder, Dov Charney--as everyone under the sun knows--is something of a maniac--and a sex maniac, at that. But I...

How is your Business Doing Well by Doing Good? Leave a comment (with link, if you like) at the bottom.

Do Well By Doing Good.

It's the moment that fills the dreams (and nightmares, more often) of business execs.

You, a potential customer, are standing in...

Two Tibetan American Buddhist gurus, back in the day. Best-selling Buddhist author and teacher Sakyong Mipham (right) with his father, Chogyam Trungpa (founder of Shambhala, Naropa, author of Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism)....

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. Why? Because if I can substantially reduce the miles my...

I run a little old media gone new media publication called elephant journal dot com. A week ago, I received one of the best/most interesting/most offensive/laughable/historically valid comments, like, ever:

I just discovered your website last night then...

Introductory Note: with the Chinese New Year just past, and the Tibetan New Year just days away (this week is considered Don Season, an inauspicious time to do anything new, risky or adventurous, including travel), I thought a post honoring the already-or-just-about-here Year of...

On December 31st, the last ecopaper-printed issue of my eco-magazine, elephant journal, sold off the last newstands in Whole Foods and Pharmacies, etc., around the US of A. A few weeks later, Plenty, the leading 'green' magazine, went kaput. And...

I heard the news today oh boy...about an unlucky small green pharmacy chain that made waves in wellness and was a model of successful LOHAS business for six years before, suddenly, announcing it was closing its...

Update, via New York Magazine:

"I don't have any burning issue with Alice Waters, a restaurateur and visionary whose accomplishments clearly dwarf my own, so I doubt it. In a perfect, candy-colored world, I'd like...

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... and when you do you'll find thousands of years of knowledge at the tip of your clickety click mousepad.

Did I forget any wonderful yoga videos? If...