Topic: News

The Transgender Day of Remembrance was set aside to memorialize those who were killed due to hatred or prejudice. Transgender Day of Remembrance of Santa Cruz County to be held on November 20th, 2008 at 6:30 PM in Watsonville, California, near East Beach and Main Street.

A coalition of community organizations in Santa Cruz County announce the 2008 Transgender Day of Remembrance of Santa Cruz County to be held at the Watsonville City Plaza, near East Beach and Main Street, at 6:30 to to 8:00 PM on November 20, 2008.

Formerly known as the Denver Folk & Roots Music Festival, RootsFest is held in one of America's best acoustic venues, the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, located in the Denver Center for the Performing Arts complex in downtown Denver.

Swallow Hill will present the third annual RootsFest on Saturday, March 28, 2009 at 6 p.m. Headlining this year's festival are bluegrass legends Hot Rize, multi-Grammy winning singer/songwriter Shawn Colvin and acclaimed guitar virtuoso Leo Kottke.

Thousands of consumers choose Mountain Rose Herbs for Co-op America's Most Prestigious Award.

Today Mountain Rose Herbs, a leader in delivering exceptional quality certified organic and sustainable products, will accept Co-op America's People's Choice Award for 2008 Green Business of the Year. The award will be formally presented to Mountain Rose Herbs to help kick off the weekend-long San Francisco Green Festival.

The Nature Conservancy's green gift offerings include opportunities to adopt an acre of a threatened landscape, protect Palau's stunning coral reefs, and plant trees in South America's Atlantic Forest.

This holiday season, The Nature Conservancy is encouraging consumers to give gifts that will go twice as far - gifts that will delight loved ones while also protecting and preserving some of the world's most precious habitats for future generations.

Social, economic and environmental leaders come together to create greater global prosperity, happiness and peace in San Francisco.

On Monday and Tuesday, November 17th and 18th, at the Presidio Golden Gate Club, 135 Fisher Loop, San Francisco, California, social, economic and environmental leaders will join with hundreds of participants to create systems, relationships and action steps to building a better world, with shared prosperity, happiness and peace.

The bad news is that our site needs your immediate help. The good news is, you don't need to make a donation to help us. All you need to do is shop – and we all like to go shopping, right?

Some of you might have noticed that beginning around the middle of August we quit publishing new feature articles here on AlternativeApproaches.com. In November, we resumed publication of a few feature articles, on a somewhat sporadic basis. During all of this time, we kept the site updated with new news articles, at least three per day as usual, but the original content that we've built our reputation upon was gone. And if you subscribe to our weekly newsletter, you might have noticed that we quit putting those out on August 17th.

The Amazing Kreskin predicted the 2008 presidential election winner eleven months ago when there were more than a dozen contenders, including John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney as well as John McCain and Barack Obama.

The mentalist The Amazing Kreskin remains confident about his prediction on December 6, 2007, when he announced to the world that he knew who would win the 2008 presidential election. Kreskin will reveal his prediction, which is currently sealed inside a lockbox and is on display at The World Bar in New York City, on Thursday November 6th at 1pm. He's challenged up to 10 people to bet him $10,000 dollars that he will deliver the correct answer.

A 39,000 square foot meditation center will open its doors on November 8th. Called Mahima, the center is to be a destination for spiritual growth, regardless of religious affiliation.

In what could be a sign of America's changing spiritual composition, Mahima, a 39,000 square foot meditation center, will officially open its doors on November 8th. Located amidst 1,200 acres of green forests in the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee, the center will be a resource for the science of yoga and will be the largest meditation center in the Western Hemisphere. Sadhguru Vasudev, the founder of Isha Foundation and the Isha Institute of Inner Sciences (IIIS) will consecrate the center.

It's not often that an AlternativeApproaches.com writer gets recognition from an outfit like "USA Today," so we wanted to give our own Swami Dhyan Giten a big "atta boy!"

Regular readers of our site will know that for the last year or so, the Sweedish Swami, Dhyan Giten, has been a regular contributer to AlternativeApproaches.com. In fact, we've come to like his work, and his insight, so much that we pretty much automatically assume that any articles he sends our way will be great for our publication.

A Llewellyn book on tantric sexuality wins award from USA Book News.

Tantra for Erotic Empowerment: The Key to Enriching Your Sexual Life by Mark A. Michaels and Patricia Johnson has been named a National Best Books 2008 Award Winner in the Health: Sexuality/Sex category and an award-winning finalist in the Religion: Eastern Religions category. Last year Michaels and Johnson won the same honors for their first book, The Essence of Tantric Sexuality.