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Whether it’s money or the environment everybody seems to be talking about green. They seem to be on opposite sides of the spectrum, money on the one hand, environment on the other. But are they? In this country, especially these days, money has a big voice and spending is how we have our say. We thought we’d give you a chance to think about that in this edition of transform. — a different sort of homage to Earth Day. Are you supporting the earth with your green?

Universal Form Universal Form, the body movement we do every morning to before we sit, reminds some folks of yoga, tai chi or qi gong. That’s because it combines all three. We do a modified version of the original form developed by Lawrence Tan, but it’s super effective and unlike ‘downward dog’ just about anyone can do it. Read more Universal Form at MLK Park:[New Day!] Sat May 9 | 11am

Super Om, Courtesy of Students for A Free Tibet: www.studentsforafreetibet.org

in SIGHT An Indigenous Perspective on How to Survive the Next Hundred Years At Bioneers in 2007 Evon Peter blew away the audience with this talk that radiates truth and compassion. In this clip he touches everything from colonization and its effects on both people and the environment. What he says does much more than make

seven deadly sins of change: a superhero's funding and field guide to transformation INcite with angel Kyodo williams

you think about the earth differently, you also have to begin to think about your place in it. Watch YouTube video An Indigenous Perspective:Purchase Complete DVD

in TIME

While then-candidate Obama wooed the electorate into an oddly fleeting historic

Inner Justice

moment with his steady call for us to all be Agents of Change, those of us that have been

Justice Intensive | June 20 to

stealthily exchanging our glasses for capes with only tepid results to show for it know that we need more than ordinary change to get us out of the one-step left, two-steps right shuffle our social justice agenda has been stymied by for the past 50 years. We need the kind of change that leads to deep-rooted, broad-based, sustainable lasting change that can't be rolled back with the swirl of a pen or crushed under a wave of conservative backlash. We need Transformative Change. We've been secretly biding our time in serene anticipation of the Fall of

Save the Dates: 4th Annual Inner June 27 | Prep on June 19 Weeklong meditation, Yoga, Breath and Study Intensive for agents of social change. Earth Day Weekend : Spring Spruce | April 25 | 10 AM - 1 PM Get your hands in the Earth this Earth day, while helping spruce up our beautiful garden. Snacks and refreshment. Come for any or all of the time and bring your friends. 4th Annual Inner Justice Intensive | June 20 - 27 | Prep June 19

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