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Video: Niroga at work Niroga Institute is a non-profit Center for Integral Health and Development dedicated to providing life skills to at-risk and underserved individuals and families through Yoga. With over 50 Certified Yoga Teachers in the Yoga Corps, they are reaching out to several hundred people a week, including homeless, delinquent and incarcerated youth, people in rehab and recovery, and seniors. In addition to increasing strength, endurance, flexibility, and balance we help self-transformation by enhancing self-control and self-awareness, stress resilience and anger management - peace within leading to universal peace. You can hear directly from Niroga's students in this 8-minute video highlighting their work with at-risk youth. Reasons to be cheerful The state of green business. An artistic blow to the face CD Review: Punch by Punch Brothers. Watch this space The mayor of Sao Paulo is emptying his city of billboards, calling them "visual pollution". Is this the beginning of the end for outdoor advertising?  |
 
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 Life is a work of art!
Leafpond leafpond.com is a unique media space dedicated to the philosophy that artistic living and aesthetics are essential to a rich life experience. We provide an avenue for people of like mind to nourish their creative spirit. In May for our one-year anniversary, Leafpond introduces its new video series, "Conversations With...". Read more... The language of the heart
Filmmaker Nic Askew treats his audience with beautiful short films & stories about Life & the Human Spirt. Soulbiographies, he calls them. One of the movies that touched me deeply was an interview with old men and women in Guatemala. Nic wanted to capture the soul of Guatemala but during the interiew he couldn't understand the local language that the old people spoke. He tried hard to listen to their words. And then he gave up. He started to listen to their voice, he looked in their eyes and face and watched their gestures. He immediately understood what they were saying. He discovered that his attempts to understand their words kept him away from being open with his heart directly to theirs. Read more... Plug-in shipsShips in Gothenburg Sweden pull into port and plug in. The system was pioneered over 8 years ago. Zeebrugge, Belgium, along with Long Beach and Los Angeles, are trying similar technology, which costs about $70,000 to $109,000 for each outlet. But shore-side electricity hasn’t yet replaced diesel oil or heavy bunker fuel. Only a few ships have plugs, not all use the same electrical frequencies,and bunker fuel is cheaper. And much dirtier. Carbon dioxide emissions from shipping are about twice as high as from airlines. Read more... ZapRoot 035: Blind hit with hybrid
Blind people have introduced a bill that will require hybrids to make a noise while in electric mode, Patagonia embraces transparency in manufacturing, and we look at some Damn Good Designs, ZapRoot, helping you go green. Read more... Amphibian education - Save an endangered species!
Hello fellow Ode readers, I am part of a training program, Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leaders. Five of us are working together on a conservation campaign. You may know that this has been designated Year of the Frog to bring attention to amphibians - 1/3 to 1/2 are in danger of extinction in part due to an infectious disease that has devastated frogs around the world. Read more... Meet storyteller Sybil
The five year old who drew whimsical figures with charcoal on the walls of her modest home in the southern village of Gintota, Galle, in Sri Lanka, today is an internationally celebrated children's book writer and illustrator. For over five decades now, Sybil Wettasinghe has been amusing, entertaining and winning the hearts of millions of kids across the globe through her engaging stories and colourful illustrations. Read more... |
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