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Check out our first short film from South Africa, featuring an innovative project in Johannesburg. The GreenHouse Project takes a holistic approach to the city's challenges, transforming an old Parks utility depot into a learning center for green building, efficient and renewable energy, recycling, and organic farming and nutrition. ...Read more

On his first visit to the United States, His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa is visiting several cities, including New York City and Boulder, Colorado. On May 29 he will be landing in Seattle, Washington, where he will offer two days of public teachings at the historic Paramount Theater. Read more about the tour and view photos and video clips on the Karmapa Visit blogspot .

We were honored to have the chance to meet His Holiness on our visit to Dharamsala last year. And if you haven't seen it, here's the short film of our interview with him. ...Read more

"I don’t think in moving forward into the modern world we should leave behind those values that were critical to our existence."

We’ve just added several clips from our interviews with former Deputy Minister of Health of South Africa, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, and Credo Mutwa, a Zulu Sangoma and healer. More interviews and short films from South Africa are on their way!

This weekend we attended Oneness and the Heart of the World, a meeting of two mystical traditions, with Fr. Thomas Keating and Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee. At the foot of the beautiful Rocky Mountains in Boulder, Colorado, these two teachers came together to talk about oneness and how we can serve the whole through spiritual practice. Father Keating is a monk and retired abbot of the Cistercian Order. He is one of the architects of Centering Prayer, a contemporary form of the Christian contemplative tradition. We were fortunate to film his talk at this event, which is available here.

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"The whole – I won't say only humanity – but the whole universe is interdependent, everything. We are all interdependent upon each other."

We were saddened to hear the news of Dr. Nirmala Deshpande's death this morning, who we had the privilege of interviewing last March. Throughout her long life, she worked tirelessly spreading Gandhi's message of peace and non-violence throughout India. We will be adding her complete interview to the site in the coming weeks, but you can watch clips from our interview with her here. ...Read more