...see you all on Tuesday, June 1!

Via the Union of Concerned Scientists: the Green Music Group is "is a large-scale, high-profile environmental coalition of musicians, industry leaders and music fans using our collective power to bring about widespread environmental change within the music industry and around the globe."

"For this writers group, it's all about the critique."

"Sikh Environment Day."

"The Academy’s Center for Environmental Policy’s initiative facilitates communication and collaboration among regional faith-based and religious groups working to promote sustainability. Many churches and faith-based organizations have made stewardship of the environment a central element of their creed. The Academy’s Interfaith Environmental Network is intended to support partnerships between faith-based environmental organizations and between these organizations and the secular environmental community."

Fort Worth Weekly: "Whenever something challenging happens to poet and spoken word artist Tammy Gomez, she immediately asks herself one question: How can I turn this into art?...Born in West Texas, Gomez graduated from Paschal High School in the 1980s and studied psychology and pre-law at Goucher College in Maryland. She was already nurturing a fierce admiration for punk legend and poet Patti Smith by the time she started graduate work at Naropa University in Colorado."

...an annotated list from Secret Notebooks.

"Fighting Abuse In The Home Denver is a faith-
based organization committed to the prevention,
intervention, and elimination of domestic violence
while cultivating good health, healing and hope for
survivors of domestic violence."

Yellow Scene: "Locavore movement cultivate a new breed of farmer — from college students to retirees — ready to change the world one carrot at a time."

Daily Camera: "The happiness that comes from caring about others, the rewards of being a visionary activist and a world in which women and men are equal and women's rights are understood as human rights: Those were Melanne Verveer's three wishes for Naropa University's Class of 2010."

"Over my two years as a student at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, founded by Allen Ginsberg in 1974 as part of Naropa University in Boulder, the subject of sports writing never came up. What most 'serious' writers and readers don’t know is that Kerouac – now canonized worldwide as one of the crucially talented novelists and poets of the 20th Century – was passionate about sports...Rules of the Game, an interesting and entertaining collection of the best sports writing published by Harper’s Magazine in the last 100 years or so, reveals that, before and after Kerouac’s time, sports writers, and even some of the athletes they covered, have often been more than mere elevated fans."

Inside Higher Ed: "There are plenty in higher education who devote themselves to interpreting rock and roll as literature. Fewer devote themselves to the interpreting literature as rock and roll. But that is what four California academics — three at Stanford University and another at the University of California at Los Angeles — set out to do with their band, Glass Wave...recently released its self-titled debut album...The 11-track album adapts themes and narratives from Homer, Ovid, Shakespeare, Herman Melville, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, and Vladimir Nabokov, and sets them to musical compositions."

"Personal Sustainability.com is currently, a blog detailing the personal and professional enterprises at Sustainable Self under the vision of Dr. Thomas Joseph Doherty. As a human services and consulting business, Sustainable Self focuses on implementing green practices for individuals as well as companies and communities. Sustainable Self provides expert consultation on well-being and behavior change and specializes in serving clients with ecological values."

Daily Camera: "Several Naropa University students began a 'Goss-Grove neighborhood appreciation weekend'...to clean up streets and build a stronger sense of community in the area -- a move that has longtime residents delighted."