April 2007

Features

Hello, Dalai
While Tibetans struggle for autonomy, their spiritual leader and his ambassador continue to preach a message of universal oneness. BY CHARLES SHAW

Beyond Eco-Apartheid: Is the green movement too white? Van Jones proposes a solution
America’s poor people of color are the last to benefit from the bright green economy, but the first to suffer the fallout of environmental degradation. Why eco-chic, embraced by an eco-elite, won’t save the planet — and an alternate solution for what will. BY VAN JONES

Conversations: Bill McKibben
The author of The End of Nature speculates on hope for the future. BY RITZY RYCIAK

Party Like You Give a Damn
Rock out to live music, recycle your water bottle and wait in line to use the porta-potty turned eco-art-installation. It’s all in a day’s work for LA’s festival circuit do-gooders, Global Inheritance. BY CAROLINE RYDER

Departments

On Our Radar
What Counts, Vino Green-o, Soul Train

Green Scene
Kelly B, TerraCycle

Healthy Living
Food Not Bombs
How feeding the hungry got this grassroots activists’ network on the FBI’s domestic terrorist watch list. BY JEFF CONANT

Body Talk
Cat naps for heart health; freeway living leads to lifelong lung trouble; Cancer-blocking UV rays? BY ELIZABETH BARKER

Green Rooms
This Earth Day, open up to green yoga.
BY ALISON CLARE STEINGOLD

Bloom Café
Wilshire Vista sprouts new organic eatery
BY JESSICA RIDENOUR

Tune In
Live Well and Prosper
The harder we’ve pursued what we imagined was happiness, the more steadily and successfully it has fled our grasp. BY BILL MCKIBBEN

Art & Soul
Exerpt from Beyond Knowing
Mysteries and Messages of Death and Life From a Forensic Pathologist BY JANIS AMATUZIO, MD

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