A member of the Occupy Wall Street movement looks for tent in Zuccotti Park as the first winter snow falls in New York, Oct. 29, 2011 (Lucas Jackson/Reuters).
Showing posts with label snow creature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snow creature. Show all posts
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Occupy Wall Street: Snow on American Fall
A member of the Occupy Wall Street movement looks for tent in Zuccotti Park as the first winter snow falls in New York, Oct. 29, 2011 (Lucas Jackson/Reuters).
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Ganges Los Angeles: San Gabriel River
Wisdom Quarterly
The snowy, Himalaya-like San Gabriel Mountain range of LA (laobserved.com)
From Benares on the Ganges to the Sea
If "Pasadena is the Benares of the America," as Indian luminaries noted a century ago, then the Los Angeles River is our Ganges. Its holy mouth is the San Gabriel Mountain Range, and Mt. Wilson our Everest (Sagarmatha). The Santa Monica Bay is polluted because the LA River is polluted -- and that debris begin in the San Gabriel Mountains, river, and valley.
Working with the Army Corps of Engineers, L.A. County Public Works, L.A. County Parks and Recreation, and the San Gabriel Mountain Regional Conservancy, The Friends of the Whittier Narrows Natural Area, The Sierra Club Urban Park and Urban Environment Committee Angeles Chapter, and Surfrider Foundation...
Mt. "EverLAst" - archival footage of my pilgrim grandparents in the snow in Los Angeles
Angelenos can do something about it. Cleanup volunteering is available year round through these organizations. Join Wisdom Quarterly to get the trash out of the San Gabriel River in the foothills and the valley's reclaimed Whittier Narrows Natural Area. This part of the river has not been cleaned in more than six years.
Much trash, especially plastic bags, is snagged by vegetation and that trash affects the river. Not only is plastic trash bad for people but it is also bad for birds, bugs, assorted animals, and humans. And those clusters of plastic trash are accumulating in the Pacific Ocean Gyre.
The snowy, Himalaya-like San Gabriel Mountain range of LA (laobserved.com)From Benares on the Ganges to the Sea
If "Pasadena is the Benares of the America," as Indian luminaries noted a century ago, then the Los Angeles River is our Ganges. Its holy mouth is the San Gabriel Mountain Range, and Mt. Wilson our Everest (Sagarmatha). The Santa Monica Bay is polluted because the LA River is polluted -- and that debris begin in the San Gabriel Mountains, river, and valley.
Working with the Army Corps of Engineers, L.A. County Public Works, L.A. County Parks and Recreation, and the San Gabriel Mountain Regional Conservancy, The Friends of the Whittier Narrows Natural Area, The Sierra Club Urban Park and Urban Environment Committee Angeles Chapter, and Surfrider Foundation...
Mt. "EverLAst" - archival footage of my pilgrim grandparents in the snow in Los Angeles
Angelenos can do something about it. Cleanup volunteering is available year round through these organizations. Join Wisdom Quarterly to get the trash out of the San Gabriel River in the foothills and the valley's reclaimed Whittier Narrows Natural Area. This part of the river has not been cleaned in more than six years.
Much trash, especially plastic bags, is snagged by vegetation and that trash affects the river. Not only is plastic trash bad for people but it is also bad for birds, bugs, assorted animals, and humans. And those clusters of plastic trash are accumulating in the Pacific Ocean Gyre.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Regulating (or not) yoga
Yoga at the beach (healthyoga.com)
To regulate or not?
ReligionDispatches.org, Susan Campbell (StillSmallVoice, Courant.com)
A bill that's moving toward Texas Gov. Rick Perry would seek to exempt from regulation the training of the people who teach yoga in the Lone Star State. That has opened a whole can of worms of who -- if anyone -- should regulate yoga, writes Andrea R. Jain, at Religion Dispatches:
"Soul of Yoga" at Stake in Texas Regulation Push
Prof. Andrea R. Jain, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ., Indianapolis
A vote away from the desk of Texas Governor (and potential 2012 Republican candidate for president) Rick Perry is a bill that has ignited a debate over the so-called “soul of yoga” and who, if anybody, is entitled to regulate it. SB 1176, which recently passed both the Senate and the House committee on Economic & Small Business Development, would exclude yoga from the definition of “post-secondary education,” thus exempting yoga teacher training programs from career school licensing requirements.
Prof. Andrea R. Jain, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ., Indianapolis
A vote away from the desk of Texas Governor (and potential 2012 Republican candidate for president) Rick Perry is a bill that has ignited a debate over the so-called “soul of yoga” and who, if anybody, is entitled to regulate it. SB 1176, which recently passed both the Senate and the House committee on Economic & Small Business Development, would exclude yoga from the definition of “post-secondary education,” thus exempting yoga teacher training programs from career school licensing requirements.
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