Recently Roots staff from stores, our leather factory, distribution centre and offices participated in the TD Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup. Hundreds of team members picked up garbage from shorelines across Canada.
Roots Co-founder, Don Green, Dr. Jane Goodall, local politicians, members of Roots & Shoots and others participated at one of the many locations across Canada. Take a look at the following video from the site near the Humber River in Toronto.
Learn why environmentalism and activism is important to Roots by listening to Don Green's complete speech at the event.
We're adding our voice in support of Canadian culture. We think magazines, movies, music and culture are an important part of life in any country. We hope everyone will take the time to take the time to check out local and national titles as well as the large international names we all know.
Watch the video with Margaret Atwood, Geddy Lee, Broken Social Scene and more show their support for The Walrus or better yet visit their website, www.walrusmagazine.com.
Estefania Iglesias took some time out from promoting her new film, Down for Life, during TIFF to visit Roots 100 Bloor Street to admire our new bags for fall. Take a look as she dances for our camera with a Lauren Bag. In just five years, this beautiful Argentinean top model and commercial queen has transformed herself into a thriving Hollywood Actress.
Appearing alongside Snoop Dog and Danny Glover in Down for Life, Iglesias is quickly asserting herself in the North American film industry. Iglesias also recently shared the screen with Ashton Kutcher and Anne Heche in Spread (2009), and David Carradine, her co-star in the action flick Bad Cop (2009). We hope she enjoys her first trip to Canada!
Meet Maria, the first Mamavation Mom. Watch all Maria's videos as she shares with us her workout routine, food regime, and daily challenges as she changes her life around to create a healthier lifestyle for her and her family. She is totally an inspiration for all of us.
So we definitely wanted to talk about and give you the heads up about a very interesting and funny upcoming movie: Enlighten Up!
Synopsis
Kate Churchill is a filmmaker and a dedicated yoga practitioner who insists that yoga can transform anyone. She decides to prove it. Her plan: select a subject, immerse him in yoga and follow him until he finds a yoga practice that transforms him. Her subject: Nick Rosen a skeptical, 29 year-old journalist living in New York City.
Intrigued by the opportunity to peek behind the curtain of a 5.7 billion dollar 'spiritual' industry, Nick signs on to investigate yoga for 6 months. Before he can say OM, he finds himself twisted up like a pretzel, surrounded by celebrity yogis, true believers, kooks, entrepreneurs and a gentle teacher from Brazil who leads his class with his feet behind his head.
The more Nick investigates yoga the more contradictions he discovers, leading him to question whether yoga is anything more than a workout. As Nick searches for concrete facts and discards the lofty spiritual theories of his yoga teachers, he strays further from Kate's original plan. The two find themselves lost in Northern India, embroiled in a struggle between Kate's expectations and Nick's overt rejection of 'spirituality'.
They circle the globe talking to mystics, gurus, mad men and saints searching for the true meaning of yoga. Ultimately, both Nick and Kate end up in places they never could have imagined. They don't find the answers to their questions, they find much more.
*Important stuff: You
have until Monday, July 20 at 10:00am ET to enter. Only one
entry/post/tweet per person. Only one person will be selected to win
the bag. If for some reason that bag is no longer available we reserve
the right to substitute the bag with another of equal value.
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