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Denver Post: "Adventure Rabbi returns to spiritual experience of outdoors."

"The Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics is an educational, nonprofit organization dedicated to the responsible enjoyment and active stewardship of the outdoors by all people, worldwide."

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Via DailyKos:

"The catastrophic decline around the world of 'apex' predators such as wolves, cougars, lions or sharks has led to a huge increase in smaller 'mesopredators' that are causing major economic and ecological disruptions."

"Over the past decade, it has become de rigueur in progressive and lefty Jewish settings to be studying Talmud as part of a discussion of workers’ rights, or to include Maimonides’ medieval code in a discussion of the death penalty, or to quote from the writings of twentieth-century Orthodox Rabbinical jurists to make a point about trying minors as adults. So what does this all mean? I would like to suggest that this marks the third stage in an evolution from a desacralized language of social justice to the current reclamation of the language of tradition."

...Daily Environmental News.

Candace Walworth on the Peace Studies at Naropa University student blog: "I’ve been thinking about what it means for Naropa to participate in the Dead Man Walking School Theatre Project. Naropa's mission states that we prepare graduates '…both to meet the world as it is and to change it for the better.' The DMW School Theatre Project is an attempt to build a university and community-wide learning community that strikes both chords."

Inside Higher Ed: "It is true that 40-year-old Hampshire did not have a chaplaincy program for its first 33 years. It is true that politics on campus are progressive, challenging, and fervent. It is true that Hampshire students, like college-age students elsewhere, examine, question, and possibly eschew ideas they were raised with. It is not true that these realities are mutually exclusive with a rich and deep spiritual life."

Via The SIXTIES:

"Poet Amiri Baraka escaped a tremendous snowstorm on one of the last flights out of Newark, New Jersey to take questions in an open forum at the University of Colorado’s Memorial Center in Boulder on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010...He’ll return during the second week of July as part of The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics’ Summer Writing Program at Naropa University."

Via orgtheory.net:

"Critics of the teaching of evolution in the nation’s classrooms are gaining ground in some states by linking the issue to global warming, arguing that dissenting views on both scientific subjects should be taught in public schools."

"Our goal is to promote agricultural activities in the Denver metropolitan area for a variety of reasons. First, for sustainability, i.e. renewing and preserving our energy and resources. Second, for growing and raising our own quality food and getting in touch with food sources. Third, for energy conservation. Fourth, for fun. Growing vegetables is fun. Raising food-producing animals is fun. Fifth, because a chicken living in your backyard and playing with a child is probably living a happier life than a chicken living on a factory farm."

"The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. The Free Music Archive is directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet. Every mp3 you discover on The Free Music Archive is pre-cleared for certain types of uses that would otherwise be prohibited by copyright laws that were not designed for the digital era."

"We certify the professionals of equine therapy to ensure the highest standards and safety in mental health; and provide appropriations for scientific research, at risk youth, veterans, and Native Americans to enhance this incredible approach in therapy."

Chronogram Magazine has an interview with Judith Simmer-Brown, a professor in Naropa's Religious Studies department.