PROJECTS - SOLSTICE INSTITUTE
A 501c3 nonprofit organization co-created by VARADAAN Benjamin Howard Lipman on January 19 1995, the Solstice Institute was created as an active experiment to promote Sustainable Culture, both the theory and the practice, both teachings and practice. Numerous experiments and projects have occurred, and the link here will take you to the Solstice Institute homepage, which includes more detail and archives.SUSTAINABLE CULTURE MINI GRANTS
New for 2006, the mini-grants program is a way to present the Sustainable Culture concept to our community and beyond. As well, it will serve as a means to map the community/region and help to identify where we are strong and where there is room for improvement as we collectively strive for a healthier community and region, and actively work to be better planetary citizens, individually and collectively.302 PEARL STREET STUDIOS
A place for active experimentation, the building at 302 Pearl in Boulder, Colorado is a place where workshop space can be rented by the hour the day, the weekend or whatever terms work best for you. It also hosts the Solstice Institute and Boulder Ayurveda, and the offices of other organizations as well. The old part of the building is 108 years old as of 2006, and we have been retrofitting all of the building, bringing an older structure into superinsulated status, without sending the standing materials to the landfill. Features include extensive daylighting (in process), high performance glazing, unusual insulation technologies, passive solar systems, water purification, a contemplation garden (in process), and outdoor community space.BOULDER AYURVEDA, LLC
provides education, consultations and products supporting clients to find their way to greater health, longevity and balance. Ayurveda is the traditional sacred medicine of the Vedic culture.It was discovered by Buddhists and brought to Tibet, where it became the core of Tibetan medicine. It is a sister science of Chinese Medicine, also called Traditional Oriental Medicine, and shares in part, techniques and technologies including Herbology, Pulse Analaysis, Tongue Examination, and Acupressure. Every medicine in Ayurveda is safe to eat, because all the ingredients are made from herbs studied for thousands of years, perhaps ten thousand years. Ayurveda is a window into the Vedic culture which is a woven tapestry integrating yoga, meditation, astrology, medicine, cuisine, and all dimensions of lifestyle. In Ayurveda, the core the definition of life is: the functional integration of mind body and spirit.