Recorded live from Lighting in a Bottle, this episode features the sacred art collective,  Emerald Installations of Berkley, California.  Learn about the history of the sacred mandala,  how you can create nature based artwork at home and why regular summer festival attendees anticipate the creation of these mandalas to enhancement ritual, prayer and community play. You'll get a sense of the various spiritual traditions which feature mandalas as spiritual teaching tools which establish sacred spaces to enhance meditation.  The psychoanalyst Carl Jung saw the mandala as "a representation of the unconscious self," and believed his paintings of mandalas enabled him to identify emotional disorders and work towards wholeness in personality.   This is a short and sweet episode that completes the 4-part series recorded live from Santa Barbara at the Lighting in a Bottle Festival.

Peace Has Begun and The Living Green Show is part of it!  Tune into this live broadcast from the the bright pink, double decker bus positioned for peace at Lightning in Bottle. Learn how this exciting project was created and why people all over the United States are asking the question, "How are you creating peace in your life?" Project—Peace on Earth is a globally-telecast, Live Aid-like event featuring Superstar musicians performing Sacred music from the world’s most mystical concert venues, to reach over 2 billion people, to raise awareness, to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to address pressing issues affecting children worldwide. While the scope of Project—Peace on Earth is ambitious, at the same time, it is clearly doable.  Learn how Executive Director, Steve Robertson and his team are spearheading this daring idea to transform global consciousness through sacred sound all across the planet.

Jedi Wright, Assistant Director of Sustainability and Shena Turlington, Environmental Director for Lightning in a Bottle share the top three lessons learned while producing a 3-Day Green Music Festival at Live Oaks Park in Santa Barbara, California. Learn how you can integrate green into anything you do, why this festival has become an evolutionary ground for important information exchange and why this open source community is making financial sacrifices to get greener. Get ready to push your boundaries and learn how you can express your creative energy at next year's Lightning in a Bottle by getting prepared in advance. Eavesdrop on this inspiring "backstage" conversation about 2012, biodiesel, alternative transportation ideas and most importantly, get some insight on big plans for next year right from The Do Lab Environmental Team.

Going "green" is often signified by the transition from plastic water bottles and paper coffee cups to stainless steel bottles and reusable coffee mugs.  In this episode, you'll learn about a new option for bottled water drinkers that features bottle made from plants, as opposed to crude oil. Even if you're not a bottled water drinker, it's imperative that you listen to this episode and educate yourself on the bottled water choices that are available for your bottle drinking friends, co-workers and corporate event planners. Dave Burke, the COO of Primo To Go, offers a window into his personal life story as well as offers a "no" pitch interview that will leave you understanding why conventional PET bottles use limited and depleting reserves of oil and natural gas as their feedstock source. Learn why Ingeo™ emits less carbon dioxide and why it uses renewable resources as a feedstock. This episode offers a solution for water bottles drinkers, opportunities for large scale bottled water carriers and perhaps an opportunity for you to bring PRIMO water into your home, workplace or next community event.

Interested in Community Living? Diana Leafe Christian, former editor of "Communities" magazine, published by Fellowship for Intentional Community (FIC) helps define and deepen the types of questions as well resources you need to guide you to your optimal community living research project and perhaps, new living situation! You'll learn more about the launch of her new online Ecovillage newsletter, Ecovillages as well as get an overview her first book on Finding Community.  In this episode you will learn the distinctions between Ecovillages, cohousing neighborhoods, rural homesteading communities, spiritual communities and Christian communities. Diana shares her insights, resources and over 25 years of community experience in this 24 minute episode filled with the information you need to determine the values, locations and work opportunities that are important to you and available in communities all over the world. 

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