Get ready for powder envy, Vail Valley
Powder skiing at Monarch is so good you might not want to hear about it
Prayer, Ritual, Magick
The notion of magick in the Crowley-esque sense of the term tends to haunt modern polytheism. Magick seems to run counter to the devotional elements we tend to see as properly religious. Praising the divine seems to be one thing, plying the divine for favors quite another. In general, both are seen as acceptable, but their relationship is a little obscure.
Children 'damaged' by materialism

Most adults in the UK believe that children's well-being is being damaged because childhood has become too commercial, a lifestyle poll has found.
Who is the fakest of them all?
Those who preach NLP think it gives them kudos. In fact it merely advertises social inadequacy, says Philip Beadle
World’s first positive energy mixed-use building

This 1.4 million sf building for Masdar City in Abu Dhabi will the first mixed use building to create more energy than it uses.
UN Says Warming Threatens Fish Stocks
PARIS - Major world commercial fish stocks could collapse within decades as global warming compounds damage from pollution and overfishing, U.N. officials said Friday.
Fire victims get more green to build green

Bruce and Janice Coy of Carmel Valley are using solar power to power their home.
Venice: Tides run low, threatening water traffic

The famous lagoon city tends to run dry for a week each winter, and on Monday tides were as much as 80 centimeters below normal.
Glorious Golden Pagoda

Burma's Devout Have Gilded the Shwedagon for a Millennium
Your Health: Medicinal plants face extinction
AL GORE once said that a scientist told him that "the human brain and the opposable thumb" that allowed us to hold over all other species is actually bad for our planet.
