One of my favorite daily rituals is walking home from practice and picking up a string of fresh jasmine flowers. The garlands are seen everywhere: at temples, strung around rickshaw lights, doorways, in people's hair,...
By Lainie Liberti on December 28, 2010 in Belize, Central America, Costa Rica, Events, Festivals, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Panama City, Photos
Scenes of Local Life.
The children dancers lining up to perform in Merida, Mexico.
Wonderful mariachis in Playa Del Carmen
Man in Merida, Mexico
Helpful waiter with umbrella in Merida, Mexico
Man in foreground, man in background in Merida, Mexico
Snack...
Photo courtesy of Ananda Banerjee
The terrible thing about tigers
This year, 2010, is the year of the tiger according to Chinese astrology — and according to the World Wildlife Fund. But though the year is almost...
This is a joint statement by the City of Cape Town, Cape Nature and the South African National Biodiversity Institute:
Setting the facts straight on arum lilies and frogs.
The City of Cape Town’s Environmental Resource Management...
[Disclaimer: back in 2006, Svein Rennemo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svein_Rennemo - chairman of StatoilHydro and Statnett - two major companies in Norway) gave a presentation regarding business culture in Norway. I was not present at his delivery, nor...
This is the mother of all blog posts. It's our annual Top 10 list of Green Things for the year. It's a way of celebrating all that 2010 has had to offer - from Saved...
Djibouti: if you’re pronouncing the name of this African country right, English-speaking people will raise their eyebrows. Try it out - ”dja booty.”
The word has had endless inappropriate puns associated with it. But let’s move past the unusual name… to the...
I've written a lot about Ashtanga elsewhere* so I forget that not everyone knows what I'm up to in Mysore or knows what Ashtanga is. This post is intended as a very brief, basic and...
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