I am celebrating Earth Day by Hosting a Locavore Potluck Brunch - attendees need to source most of their food from within 100 miles of our home in Saint Paul, Mn.

One of the ways I'm celebrating Earth Day is by beginning a 40-day mantra dedicated to the healing of the Earth. Other readers might be interested, too. Check out: www.40daysfortheearth.weebly.com

Please check out Green Yoga by Georg Feuerstein and Brenda Feuerstein. This is an exceptional book about the interrelationship between self-transformation and the preservation of the the environment.

“My heart was bleeding when reading Green Yoga. I pray that everyone will read this book and start to serve Mother Earth, so that she may survive. I hope that at least Yoga practitioners, who have faith in the evolution of humankind, make it their mission to bring about the necessary transformation.” —B. K. S. Iyengar

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“This is one of those books that the mind does not want to read. Georg and Brenda pose the punch-you-in-the-gut question 'How realistic is it to expect to attain individual serenity in a troubled sociocultural and natural environment?' Then they go on to explain how we do this through a process they call '“sattvification,' which is a purifying that involves mindfulness and activism in relation to both the mind and the world. This book is a powerhouse. It is essential reading for Yogis and Yoginis who want to be part of the solution rather than a blind part of the problem. It is a challenge to act—Karma Yoga—not just sit on your butt in meditation.”—Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati