Two photographers are heading off on a trip around the US to photograph offbeat festivals. They are traveling in an old airstream hitched to a diesel truck, which they will run on vegetable oil. You can even help fund their project by purchasing a print from their website!

Some of the festivals on their list:

• Hairy Chest, Legs, and Beard Contest in Fairbanks, Alaska
• All-Night Gospel Singing in Bonifay, Florida
• Machine Gun Shoot in Westpoint, Kentucky
• Toboggan Championships in Camden, Maine
• Little People of America Convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota
• The Quiet Festival in Ocean City, New Jersey
• The World Senior Games in St. George, Utah

Natalie Portman releases her vegan footware line. China get the greenlight to import African ivory, and Randy Olsen talks about his movie Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy.

Creative alternative fuel sources lead the news these days for good reason. From Switch Grass to industrial scraps we are waking up to the possibilities all around us for closing the loop on waste and energizing our ventures in the process. Here is a great story about researchers at Clemson University using microbes to digest the 20 million rotting peaches that are wasted each year in South Carolina. The result: hydrogen fuel from peaches for tractors to harvest peaches. What's not to love about that loop?

For more information please click on this link: www.clemson.edu

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The Pickens Plan is blowing in the wind and Green Gadgets: We tell you where you can recycle your gadgets   Read more...

As we head steadfast to the year 2012, the age of Aquarius or age of awareness, I notice the blend of science and spirituality becoming more apparent in mainstream society. Media outlets geared towards the average Joe now host an increasing number of movies, books, TV shows and the like around the subject of the unseen power of the human thinking potential.

How much power do our thoughts really have? If one would agree that we are energy beings housed in physical, flesh bodies then one might also agree that each individual energy being is connected to a much larger universal energy that thinks (has intelligence). These deeply held thoughts become beliefs which in turn spurs creation. If this is true then our thoughts are as powerful as we believe them to be. In this light, our beliefs may very well be the most valuable thing that we own.   Read more...

GreenEdge Kids (www.greenedgekids.com) is a brand new website devoted to eco-friendly and stylish fashions for kids, sizes 2-12. The site is filled with information about organic cotton, hemp, recycled fabric, organic wool, soy, made in USA, fair trade, etc. It allows you to Shop by Conscience, by Brand, by product category or by size.

The styles are adorable, and hard to believe they're eco-friendly...green style for kids has come a long way! By providing the very latest in kids' eco-fashions, GreenEdge Kids makes is possible to be green...look good...and play hard.   Read more...

Boredom is that frustrated sense of having nothing interesting to do. It is the companion to loneliness and depression for when we are bored we no longer feel good about our self.

Here are six steps to get your energy revved up and to recapture a lively sense of yourself.   Read more...

Please take a few minutes to view my website, "Doing Good, While Doing Business." It features businesses that give back to the community in a variety of different ways. You may see it at www.changethemold.com.

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This year's edition of Sfinks (festival for world music just outside Antwerp) was number 29, making it one of the oldest of its kind. The program was a mixed bag with quite a few disappointments but also some remarkable highlights.

By far the most surprising of those was a magic performance by Cryptonique, the bellows duo of composer and accordion player Fabian Beghin and diatonic harmonica virtuoso Didier Laloy, both hailing from Wallony, the French speaking part of Belgium. I was already familiar with their repertoire from the excellent CD Cryptonique they released in 2006, but their spectacular live performance rendered that album bleak in comparison.   Read more...

I'd like to share with you Laughter Yoga, as it profoundly uplifts my life. Laughter Yoga has connected me with that inner place of well-being from which springs joy. As a physician/healer I am still blown away by the power of Laughter Yoga to heal, uplift, and create well-being. Everyone can practice it. Besides it's fun!   Read more...