How & Why to Get (or Create) a Green Job: Q&A with Van Jones
Van Jones' 'New Deal' could get America back to work while weaning us off oil and coal. We asked him four questions about how you can put his ideas to work for you, your business or a friend who needs a new line of work.

Squash Is Superfood! Get Yours with 4 Yummy Recipes
It's not a favorite vegetable of many Americans today, but winter squash is delicious when you have a great recipe -- plus it's super-nutritious and inexpensive. These 4 favorite recipes using pumpkin and acorn, butternut and spaghetti squash may change your mind about these gourds.

Jesus, the Novel: Chapter 1 + Q&A with Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra captures Jesus' untold transformation during the lost years from teenage rebel to leader of men, and ultimately to the Son of God. Read Chapter 1 of 'Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment' and an interview with Chopra about his portrayal of Jesus as never before.

Functional Fitness 101: Is a Workout-Therapy Hybrid What You Need?
Ever thought about hiring a personal trainer but worried you’d be too inflexible or in too much pain to make it worthwhile? Even if you're in great shape, you may feel pain doing everyday tasks, whether from injury, arthritis or overtraining. Functional fitness may help.

Feeling SAD? A Doctor's Top 4 Remedies for Winter Blues
Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD also known as “winter blues,” is very common and very treatable. Four therapies to try plus tips on several more that can help with symptoms of SAD, from a psychiatrist and people who experience this condition every winter.

6 Ways to Green Your Thanksgiving Dinner
You don’t have to go cold tofurkey to green your Thanksgiving meal. Try these six ways keep Thanksgiving traditions while putting eco-friendly twists on your feast, starting with slashing the carbon footprint of your turkey dinner with all the fixin's.

Top 10 Green Gift Wrap Ideas
The most brilliant ways to wrap your gifts, in merry and bright eco-friendly alternatives to single-use wrapping paper.

Veggie Thanksgiving Tips & Recipes
Thanksgiving doesn’t have to be all about that big bird in the middle of your dinner table. This year, we’ll be making meatless options a bigger focus on our menu. But I will miss the wishbone!

5 Holiday Eco Decorating Tips
A guide to making any new additions to your holiday decor more eco-friendly. Five tips from an interior designer on how to choose more holiday decorations.

From Living on the Street to Earning a Living Wage: Fair Trade at Work in Hanoi
Phan had never dared to dream of the stability promised by fair trade job. But when he became an artisan in Hanoi's Kids & Stone workshop, life began to change. Read how he went from living on the street to earning a living wage.

5 Easy (and Cheap!) Ways to Detox Your Home
Amazingly simple and affordable ways to detox your home, recommended by experts in how to get pollutants and chemicals out of your living spaces — and keep them out. Why? The facts on how common household toxins affect human health may surprise you.

Sitting on a Ball Helps Kids Focus and Do Better In School
Get the details on a study, a school and parents of ADHD kids that found sitting on a ball improves focus and helps kids write more clearly. Ball chairs (and balls used as chairs) might be just what the doctor ordered to help fidgety children, especially those with sensory processing disorder or ADHD.

Study Shows Meditation Increases Compassion, Love and Forgiveness
Can a quality like love, forgiveness or compassion be measured in the brain? Scientists are finding that meditation and mindfulness practices can increase your capacity for positive qualities. A fascinating look at the neuroscience of meditation.

Buy Obama or Palin to Help Needy Kids
eBay auctions dolls in the likeness of Barack Obama, John McCain, Joe Biden and Sarah Palin; Corey Feldman releases an album with his band Truth Movement; Hayden Panettiere's whale tale; Daryl Hannah's dhlovelife vlog.

Gaiam Life Meditation Rooms
Step into a Gaiam Life Meditation Room for a few minutes to calm your senses and melt away stress. Escape your worries and experience imagery of some of the most relaxing and beautiful natural gifts on Earth, as you listen to soothing nature sounds and music.

7 Ways to Eat a Low-Carbon Diet
You don't have to cut out all your favorite treats to make these seven simple food choices to reduce your climate change impact. From eating local and in season to eating less meat and packaged foods, this guide explains how and why to go on a low-carbon diet.

3 Techniques to Dissolve Stress Fast (No Yoga Required)
All stressed out with nowhere to do some yoga? Try these three simple stress-reducing techniques from The Anywhere, Anytime Chill Guide by yoga teacher and Ms. Mindbody columnist Kate Hanley. Get breathing techniques, fast stretches and mantra tips for anxiety-ridden family gatherings, stressful work situations and, well … anytime.

Are LED Lightbulbs Better than Compact Fluorescents?
Why LED lightbulbs are becoming more affordable and practical, how energy efficient they are compared to compact fluorescents (CFLs) and incandescent bulbs, and how to find the newer, brighter LED bulbs and lamps.

Ringo Starr: Save Paper, Stop Sending Me Fan Mail!
Ringo Starr calls for curbing fan mail to save trees and CO2; the first Brangelina home for Katrina victims is completed; Kevin Bacon launches sixdegrees.org,; Neve Campbell speaks out about tar sands exploitation.

3 Workouts to Balance (Not Fight) Your Shape: Pear, Apple, Chili Pepper!
Rather than focusing mainly on your trouble spot (thighs for pears, belly for apples, and then there’s the chili pepper …) Make the most of what Mother Nature gave you by training to even out your imbalances. Try one of these three seven-day workout plans customized to each body type.

5 Easy Ways to Green Your Jack-O-Lantern
It's easy to green your jack-o-lantern and reduce the environmental impact of Halloween fun. These five ways to go eco-friendly with your pumpkin include resources for finding organic pumpkins, recipes for pumpkin bread and pumpkin seeds, and donating or composting spent pumpkins.

Can You Use the Law of Attraction to Achieve Financial Success?
What do financially successful people know that others don't? 'Money and the Law of Attraction' authors Esther and Jerry Hicks say the secret lies in asking yourself different questions.

Celebrity Planet: Leo's Latest Pet Project? Voter Turnout
Leonardo DiCaprio talks about what may be his true legacy, and his latest pet project: getting out the vote to help ensure better environmental policies. Also: Paul McCartney's veggie gal pals, Liz Hurley's organic products line and Bette Midler's community garden.

Why Humidify, and Which Type of Humidifier Is Best?
Health experts weigh in on whether you need a cool mist or warm mist humidifier, plus how and why using a humidifier can help prevent and alleviate cold, allergy and sinus symptoms as well as dry skin and nose bleeds.

6 Best Ways to Support a Loved One Who Has Cancer
Three out of four families will see a family member diagnosed with cancer. Our list of the six most supportive things you can do for a cancer patient reflects the advice of cancer–center doctors, social workers, survivors and family members who were there for them.

I Spy Eco-Spin: 5 Best Ways to Avoid Getting Greenwashed
Environmental science experts outline the five best things you can do to protect yourself from greenwashing — untrue or exaggerated claims of eco-friendly and responsible product sourcing and manufacturing.

Celebrity Planet: Rachel McAdams Has Eco-OCD
Rachel McAdams loves to ride her bike, Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds enjoy a green honeymoon, and more in this week's Celebrity Planet.

Kids’ Yoga: Get-Started Guide for Grade-Schoolers, Tweeners & Teens
Advice from kids' yoga teachers on how to get started with the right yoga program for your child. Includes yoga pose examples & benefits for kids at different ages & stages.

What's So Bad About Chemical Cleaning Products?
What exactly are the cancer-causing toxic ingredients in household cleaners? What are the dangers of using these products, and what are your alternatives, including store brands and homemade cleaning solutions?

5 Qs for Jessica Biel: Is She a Green Nerd?
In a time when eco-activism is practically a prerequisite for stardom, we asked Jessica Biel to reveal how green she really is in her everyday life, including the nerdiest things she does for the planet.

How Breast Cancer Patients Benefit from Pilates Therapy
How and why Pilates therapy is being used to support treatment and recovery for breast cancer patients, including exercise modifications and tips on getting started.

Celebrity Planet: Katherine Heigl's Fishy Situation
Katherine Heigl rescues a fish while on vacation, Brad and Angelina donate to human rights causes, and more Hollywood green gossip in this week's Celebrity Planet.

6 Rules for Feeding Your Toddler
Mealtime can be quite a frustrating experience. The best advice I can give you, as a mother and a pediatrician, is that children rarely starve themselves. So relax and try to incorporate these 6 rules for feeding your toddler.

Solar Cooking Saves Trees and Does Global Good
Solar cookers are helping families in remote areas of the world cook without firewood — helping reduce deforestation and carbon emissions from wood fires while offering solutions to health and social problems.

How Solar Cookers Work + 3 Recipes for Backyard or Backwoods
A starter guide to solar cookers including how they work, types of sun cookers, how fast they cook food, and three recipes you can make in your backyard or the backwoods.

Green Your Wardrobe: 5 Fall Eco-Fashion Trends
Being fashionable while maintaining your eco-ideals is all a matter of knowing where to shop and what to buy. Check out our coverage of the top five sustainable fall fashion trends and where to find them.

5 Ways to Stay Motivated to Exercise Regularly
To be successful at a fitness routine, you have to employ a variety of tactics to keep yourself motivated and inspired. Here are some tips proven to help make a lifetime commitment to fitness a reality.

Celebrity Planet: Scarlett Johansson's a Celluva Environmentalist
Scarlett Johansson gives recycling some sex appeal, Michael Jackson is confused about organics, and more Hollywood green gossip in this week's Celebrity Planet.

Get a Life ... Coach
What exactly is a life coach, and how do you find a good one? A 101 guide to how a life coach could help you, where to shop for a life coach, what kind of training a good life coach has, and what fees and results to expect.

What Environmental Issues Will The Next President Face?
From climate change to offshore drilling, nuclear energy, toxic waste cleanup and more, this guide offers perspective on the challenging environmental issues that the next president will face.

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2-Minute Stress Escape
Dr. Rouse guides you into relax mode with a simple de-stressing breathing technique.

Cyndi Lee on an untouchable student
One woman's journey and a seemingly insignificant event that was actually a really big deal.

Patricia Walden's Sacred Experience
How Patricia Walden finds in every Yoga session exactly what she was drawn to.

"Are You Here Now (on the treadmill)?" asks Rodney Yee
How the power to be present that you can learn in yoga and meditation can show up in other things you love (or hate) to do, and help you simply enjoy life more every day.

Ana Caban: Her First Love, Her Life's Work
Ana's passion for dance took hold early and became her life; then injury ended her ballet career. So she taught Spanish ... But when an unlikely guide turned her on to Pilates, circumstance morphed into her new life path.

Are You Taking Risks (Safely) in Yoga? Rodney Yee's Advice
Yoga practice is one continuous mistake. Make yours a good one with pointers from Rodney on how to feel when the risk is too great -- and how the power of observation and planning can help you move to a new place or master a difficult pose in yoga.

Beginner's Mind: It's a Good Thing, Says Rodney Yee
Rodney Yee on why being a novice in yoga can actually be to your advantage.

Crane Spreads Wings: Learn a Tai Chi Move
Master instructor David Dorian-Ross demonstrates a complete t'ai chi exercise. Excerpted from David's T'ai Chi Beginning Practice DVD by Gaiam.

Give Yourself a Break: Nature-Scene Stress-Reaction Check
What's your mental reaction to stress or to other's emotions? You can change it. Naturopathic physician, wellness coach and triathlete James Rouse guides this mindset-adjuster that takes you out of your head and into the altitude of Canadian wilderness.

It's Not About the Pose; It's About Balance
Feel like you're gripping everything when holding a pose? Rodney says it should feel more like a see-saw. A pointer on using your mind in yoga, not just your body.

Life is Intense: Rodney Yee on How to Deal
Can you be 100% "on" at work, yet be completely relaxed? Rodney Yee is in a zone in this clip on how intense life can get and how you can "rewire your mind" through yoga to better handle stressful, difficult situations, relationships and emotions.

Qigong: Tap Your Own Power to be Well
Why qigong keeps the body's natural healing intelligence at its peak in ways Western medicine can't. Excerpted from Qigong Beginnning Practice, with expert instructor Francesco Garripoli.

Rodney Yee: Life Story of a Yoga Icon
A limber friend sparked Rodney Yee's early interest in body mechanics. This plus his passion for community and philosophy led him to yoga. Rodney's story, his dad's take on his career path, how he's influenced his 4 siblings...

Rodney Yee: How Yoga Can Help You Accept Your Body
A lesson in really seeing, appreciating and loving what is, and letting go of expecting it to be something else.

What draws you to life? The Nature of Naturopathic Medicine
Naturopathic physician James Rouse explains how this branch of alternative medicine looks at health from more angles -- lifestyle, diet, emotional factors, core motivations -- to offer more than pharmaceutical and surgical solutions.

SPIN: A short film by Jamin Winans about Changing the Course of Events
If you could rewind or undo a fateful event, would you? This riveting and unusual short film puts the power to change the world in a whole new perspective.

Shiva Rea on the Cha Cha Cha of Life
Feel angst that you're not always going forward? How to be at peace with it by reconnecting with a simple rhythm, a grounding activity or simply being conscious of how "one step back" can be a positive one.

Shiva Rea's Unexpectedly Spiritual Moment
Spirituality doesn't just happen in churches and on mountaintops. Yoga trance-dance diva Shiva Rea experienced it in the power of connection at its most spontaneous, in a most unlikely place -- a public transit stop.

Superhuman? Dr. James, the "Life Athlete"
Physician, TV host, yoga instructor, author, triathlete ... How does this guy do this? James Rouse loved sports coaches who inspired him to "go bigger than himself." Now he says Ironman triathlons train him as a doctor, father, husband ...

Try This at Home: Warrior II pointers from a live class with Patricia Walden
Head outside with yoga expert Patricia Walden and a live class. Learn how Warrior II is done and take in tips on positioning as Patricia adjusts and guides her students in the optimal execution of this essential yoga move.

Want to have more peace? Cyndi Lee says, "Have an open agenda."
The beloved yoga teacher and founder of Om Yoga in New York shares her perspective on how each of us can connect with a sense of peace in everyday life.

What Rodney Yee Most Wants You to Learn
A few words on why we're all doing this thing called yoga, from a man who's been at it for a quarter century.

John Schaeffer's Dream House: It's Off-Grid AND It's Round
John talks with us in his living room about how he and his wife Nancy Hensley envisioned and created Sunhawk, their Rastra-block, solar-powered, uber-eco home in Hopland, Calif.

From Hippie to Green Living Guru: The sun lighted John Schaeffer's way
Gaiam Real Goods Founder and President John Shaeffer takes you back to the early days on the commune, where "Saturday Night Live" ironically catalyzed his start as a solar energy visionary.

Did Organic Agriculture Save This Community?
Chemical costs, health issues, dwindling crop yields and spiritual conflicts with pesticide use were threatening welfare and quality of life in this farming community in India. We talked with these soulful, hardworking people on why organic works.

When Will Yoga Transform You? Patricia Walden's Advice
Yoga expert Patricia Walden on when you can expect to feel a change for the better brewing if you practice yoga.

What can a yogi teach you about eco? Nicki Doane on living green
Can you really do anything to save the planet? Yogi and eco-homeowner Nicki Doane is converting everyone she knows to energy-saving lightbulbs. Here's why she says you should care.

The Greatest Spiritual Teachers May Be Closer Than You Think
Yogi Nicki Doane recalls a great influencer of her sense of spirituality -- her grandmother. This story about the power of faith is a reminder about the value of welcoming a tapestry of different belief systems into your circle.

Cameron Shayne, In His Element
Cameron gets into a zone in this brief glimpse into his Budokon method -- including dramatic leaping/spinning kicks drawing from the first martial art he learned. You won't do most of these moves in beginning Budokon -- but this is a must-see.

Cameron Shayne: Bullied Kid to Martial Arts Master
Photos and footage add to Cameron's recollections of taking tae kwon do against a friend's advice, bodyguarding celebs, choreographing fight scenes, being the ginnea pig at Om Yoga, his inspiration to marry martial arts and yoga, why women love the sense of power Budokon gives them, and more.

Why switch to compact fluorescents? Watch this.
Eco-living early adopter and entrepreneur John Schaeffer's demo shows how switching from incandescents nets a noticeable meter-spinning slowdown.

Solar: What's In It for You? 3 Ways You Win
Gaiam Real Goods Founder and President John Schaeffer on the very tangible paybacks of installing a solar electric system.

Top 5 Things You Can Do for the Earth: Where to Start
Want to do something to protect the environment, but feel overwhelmed by the prospect? Eco-living pioneeer John Schaeffer lists the 5 most important steps to take first.

Global Warming: How to Be Part of the Solution
Climate change threatens to dramatically change life on our planet, and experts say time's running out. But sustainability expert John Schaeffer says solutions that can make a significant dent in global CO2 output are within your reach now.

Seane Corn's idea of spirituality
Ask 10 people and you'll get 10 different answers on what spirituality means. Seane's take reminds us that it's not just about good things, and that everyone is a spiritual being.

Top 3 Cancer Fighting Foods
James Rouse, N.D., shows you the three foods the American Institute for Cancer Research says may pack the most punch for preventing specific types of cancer.

Can Thinking Positive Make You Healthier?
James Rouse, N.D., talks about research showing that positive thinking and gratitude can help boost your immune system, improve your eating habits, and even motivate you to fit in those workouts.

The Secret: Turn Thoughts Into Realities (film trailer)
Preview The Secret, the DVD featured twice on Oprah for its power to turn lives around. Learn to use the law of attraction to bring the things you hope for into your life, from positive loving relationships to weight loss, financial freedom, your dream job .... This is the trailer clip for the groundbreaking documentary / how-to film.

A Healthier Heart: Another Reason to Eat Your Breakfast
Naturopathic physician and triathlete James Rouse reports on a study that shows breakfast can help reduce your risk of heart disease and related illnesses.

Sunlight to Electricity: How Solar Panels Work
Solar power pioneer John Schaeffer with a quick 101 on how photovoltaic cells create electricity from sunlight, and why this technology makes sense as nonrenewable energy sources start to run out.