My grandpa worked for Esquire in its heyday. My grand uncle was Lerner, of Lerner & Loewe. My other grandma was personal secretary to Ginger Rogers, raising my mom in strict Christian Science Musical fashion in City of Angels. My father, an editor and journalist and Republican and Buddhist. My mother, a founder of two schools and Shakespeare play director. My mom was raised in LA, a WASP. My dad's fam was from NYC, he a big burly charming Jew. Opposites attract? They met in the middle, in Jackson, through Trungpa, the pioneering Buddhist teacher. They moved to Boulder and I came to life a few years on.Myself, a Buddhist/eco/writer, founder of elephant journal (first a magazine, now online), a top 10 green-focused web site and social media presence dedicated to 'the mindful life'--living a good life that also happens to be good for others, and our world. As a college kid I worked for Shambhala Int'l, and Shambhala Publications, in Boston. Later, I fundraised and PR'd for Shambhala Mountain. Then, a bit of grad school, then I got hooked into publishing--the family karma whirlpooling me (happily) down the writerly drain. In the next few years I'll continue to expand our traffic/readership from, now, 1.3 million monthly according to Google Analytics to...?...grow our Facebook (/elephantjournal) and twitter (/elephantjournal) communities, and expand our top 10 green talk show (where I aim to serve as the Jon Stewart of the Whole Foods demographic) to reach beyond our core or choir to those who didn't know they gave a care.Specialties: talk showeditorad salesdistributioncoffee appreciationbicycling 365 days a yearhound cuddling