At the age of 20, Ven. Tenzin Palmo left her home in London for India to pursue her spiritual path. There she met her guru, His Eminence the 8th Khamtrul Rinpoche and became one of the first Westerners to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun. In 2000, she founded the Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery to give young nuns of the Drukpa Kagyu Lineage the opportunity to realize their intellectual and spiritual potential.

Medha Patkar is a social activist who has led the struggle for the people affected by the controversial Sardar Sarovar Project on the Narmada river in Gujarat, India. She founded the Narmada Bachoao Andolan and National Alliance of People's movements and is recipient of numerous awards including the Goldman Environmental Prize, Amnesty International's Human Rights Defender's Award and the BBC's Green Ribbon Award.

It’s easy to get lost in the complexity of our fast paced lives. In response to Shift in Action members’ requests, we’ve created a very simple solution for delivering important kernels of wisdom, wrapped in beautiful music and sound – a minute of higher awareness in the midst of your busy day. We hope these nuggets of inspiration help to expand your mind, open your heart and shift your daily life!

From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.

Joel Salatin has been a star in the Eco-Agricultural community for some time. We the eating public are fortunate that he and his kind are gaining wider recognition as conscious stewards of our landscape. He may be one of the smartest guys I know. If you want the skinny on local farming read his latest book "Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal."

Turn mankind's darkest hour into its finest.

A Bush Administration proposal would allow the slaughter of nearly 600 gray wolves in Greater Yellowstone and Central Idaho – while they're still on the endangered species list. Both Wyoming and Idaho are planning to use aerial gunning, as well as baiting and trapping, to exterminate wolves as early as this winter.

Are you ready for a quantum leap forward, personally and collectively? In this video, bestselling author Marianne Williamson dares us to become part of the 11% of people that can transform the world. From the suffragettes to the civil rights movement, history shows that all it takes is ENOUGH people to truly make a difference. Will you be one of them? Marianne Williamson can be found at www.marianne.com

If everyone consumed as much as North Americans, we would need five planets to sustain our high-waste, high-pollution habits. Each of us can make a difference. By learning more about our individual impact, we can significantly reduce the amount of pollution and waste we produce as a whole. It can start with something as simple as buying fewer pieces of clothing or driving one less day per week.

A parody of the Garth Brooks song "Friend In Low Places", about the evils of Wal-Mart.