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I am looking for a room to hire where I can conduct one-on-one coaching sessions. Ideally, I would like the room to have 2 comfortable chairs where my client and I can sit for up to 2 hours, and is more like a counselling room but with a lovely feel to it.
Clayton has been a student of Yoga for over 20 years. He began teaching in 1996 and is the Director of Greenpath Yoga in San Francisco, California. His practice is rooted in the Ashtanga tradition and Greenpath meditation, being a student of Sri Pattabhi K. Jois and the Greensufi. Clayton is also a Founding Board Member of the Green Yoga Association and the Director of Teenpath Yoga for teens in San Francisco. He is a student of Sanskrit and on the Board of Directors at the Yoga Society of San Francisco Brahmananda Ashram.
The English town of Modbury has set the pace for clean earth-friendly living.
There’s not a plastic bag in sight in the charming little town of Modbury in Devon, thanks to the efforts of Rebecca Hoskins, the journalist daughter of a local farmer who returned from a 15-year stint in Hawaii, where she had filmed a BBC natural world documentary showing plastic pollution on its beaches.
(reprinted from Positive News HK)
Hoskins work awakened her to the grim reality of plastic pollution. Filming on Midway Island, she had seen too many creatures - from humpback whales to albatross chicks - die from ingesting immense amounts of plastic polluting the sea.
On her return to Modbury, she began to change the minds and hearts of the townsfolk towards plastic shopping bags. She didn’t have to crusade too hard; for the documentary spelled out the threat of disaster across the beautiful beaches of Devons. In May last year, the town’s 43 traders united to stop issuing plastic bags to shoppers, with the aim of becoming the first town in Britain to be completely plastic shopping bag free. Shoppers were encouraged to bring their own bags, or use the environmentally friendly carrier bags offered by the shop. The local supermarket even donated a fair-trade reusable cotton carrier bag to every town household.
Today, the town is free of its plastic peril with its people using anything reusable from biodegradable cornstarch carrier bags or recyclable paper carrier bags to backpacks instead. To encourage people to use only reusable carrier bags, a small levy is placed on disposable bags. The efforts of the town to clean up its own act has brought it fame, not just nationwide, but internationally.
It’s a proud story of a little town who turned its back not only on thin plastic bags, but the entire caboodle of plastics. It’s no longer socially acceptable to carry a plastic bag in Modbury; do it at the risk of being branded a pariah!
November 9 - December 1
The English town of Modbury has set the pace for clean earth-friendly living.
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