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photo via powershift.org Two weeks ago, over 10,000 students activists descended on Washington, D.C. to collaborate, train, motivate, and take action at Powershift 2011 . They made enough of an impact that President Obama took notice and invited 12 student leaders for a conversation. Powershift happens once a year, but a new website just re-launched aims to keep up ...
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Sudden storm . Image credit:Flickr, allspice1 , "...entry into the Leave It To Me Challenge #30." The radical right has been fighting a successful culture war against all things 60's and 70's. Earth day and its legislative outcomes are under especially intense attack, for example. An hallucinatory contact high among these Warriors has them attempting to spin the clock ...
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Photo: Emma Alter We have a federal election coming up on Monday, and my son has been working about 15 hours a day for the past three weeks hoping to get our candidate elected. I'm not good about doing things like door-to-door canvassing as he has been doing, so I'm helping out in the best way I know how. ...
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Photo: courtesy Hester Street Fair Summer weather is finally here and with it comes a much-loved weekend past time: flea market shopping! The Hester Street Fair , co-founded by by SuChin Pak and Ron Castellano, is opening their gates one week from today on Saturday May 7th (10am-6pm)--go mark your calendar, now--and they're kicking off the 2011 season big ...
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Photo: filmmij If there's ever a story that hit me hard, it was this one. I wrote about Catherine Ferguson Academy last year. It was the subject of the groundbreaking documentary Grown in Detroit . The school is one of only a few left in the country for pregnant girls or girls with children giving them the opportunity to ...
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All Images Courtesy of DVVD / Alain Baudry When the Paris-based architecture firm DVVD (hyperlink) set out to build a pedestrian bridge, they wanted to please everyone. Keep drivers safe from thrown objects by installing protective mesh around the bridge. Keep pedestrians safe by providing a well-lit passage over a busy road and river, but without caging them in. ...
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"Renegade lunch lady' chef Ann Cooper with kids "eating the rainbow" Fungi to fight plant pests? Agri-biz says it can't be done. Healthy school lunches? Superintendents claim it's too costly and kids won't eat vegetables. Health insurance and pensions for farm workers? There go the profits. Stock options? Forget about it. Mobilize a new generation to farm? Green thumbs ...
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Photo: Rune Hellestad/Corbis While we're still waiting to hear more of the green details from today's royal wedding -- were there sustainable materials in that Alexander McQueen dress? What organic foods were served at the reception? Are William and Catherine going to offset their honeymoon? -- Ecorazzi reports that the couple did go the eco-friendly route with their floral ...
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Image credit: Build Nutrition Sir Richard's Condoms and Tom's Shoes aren't the only folks pursuing a "buy one, gift one" model of business and philanthropy at the same time. A new supplement company is hoping to use the market for prenatal vitamins in rich countries to help fight nutrient deficiencies in pregnant women and unborn children in poorer nations. ...
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photo: Nogwater / Creative Commons Interested in ecological economics? (And if you call yourself an environmentalist or are even minimally concerned about green issues, you should be.) Then here are two important pieces you should be paying attention to from the past couple of days: Some good new from the National Wildlife Federation on abandoning GDP as the most ...
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