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Ally Request - John Ott, Jr.

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:33:40 -0500

Enviro-Friendly Cookies

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:44:01 -0500

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A CBC Montreal news report on Felix & Norton's Urgence-Biscuits mobile cookie bakery, and the owners' social entrepreneurship efforts.

Top Small Workplaces of 2008

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:14:12 -0400

Top Small Workplaces 2008

Creating great workplaces has never been more important for small businesses. Nor more difficult. Here are 15 companies that do it well.

By Kelly K. Spors

It's never been harder to create a great workplace. With all the turbulence in the economy, business owners are spending more time trying to boost sales and cut costs than fretting about the well-being of their employees.

But creating a rewarding work environ...

Blogging Connects Women Across the World

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:56:54 -0400

Advocacy Project (AP) have launched a blog group to connect professional women in the Washington area with young American women volunteering for human rights overseas.

This innovative use of information technology was developed during the summer, when eight Zonta members in Washington decided to follow the blogs of graduate students serving as AP Peace Fellows in Serbia, Kosovo, Uganda, Jordan, El Salvador, Nepal and Kenya.

"This is a fantastic program," said Heather Dolstra, a Zonta member and Washington travel agen...

Nicaraguan President Ortega Not Welcome at Salvador Summit, Women Activists Say

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:21:36 -0400

Advocates for women's rights in El Salvador are calling on their government to bar the President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, from attending an upcoming presidential summit because of his attempts to repress and intimidate women in his country.

In an Oct. 5 press conference, advocates from CEMUJER, a leading Salvadoran women's group, joined other human rights groups in expressing solidarity with Nicaraguan women. They urged Salvadoran President Antonio Saca to tell Mr Ortega he is unwelcome at the XVII Presidential Summit, a meeting of Central American leaders tha...

The Bloc Party

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:09:58 -0400

I fondly remember the days when all we worried about was climate change! Watching Paulson, Obama, McCain, Bush, the Dow Jones and everything else makes social change seem like a 1Choose foods grown on farms certified by the Rainforest Alliance

Buy coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolate, bananas, orange juice, g...

Summer Job with Web Startup Company

Tue, 27 May 2008 14:04:41 -0400

BetterLesson has summer jobs available in the Research and Field Organizing departments. We are looking for dedicated educators with at least one year’s classroom experience to help us dramatically improve the lives of teachers and the quality of the instruction they deliver to students.

Interested candidates should send a resume, cover letter, and writing sample to cooper@betterlesson.org

Founding Director of Product Research

Tue, 27 May 2008 14:02:37 -0400

We are looking for someone with a keen interest in education technology and policy to head up our product research team.   We are looking for someone who is anxious to immerse him/herself in education technology and policy in order to help craft the long term vision of the website. The right candidate will:

1.    Have 1 or more years of prior research experience
2.    Have prior experience in the fields of education technology and/or policy.
3.    Possess strong writing and strategic thinking skills. ...

Founding-Level National Field Director

Tue, 27 May 2008 13:59:37 -0400

We have begun an aggressive grassroots effort to reach out to educators across the country. We are looking to hire someone with a minimum of two years’ classroom experience to lead this effort.   The right candidate will:

1.    Have some prior experience in outreach, recruitment, or sales
2.    Be exceptionally organized, creative, persuasive, extroverted, and resourceful.
3.    Possess strong leadership, critical thinking, and writing skills.
4.    Be committed to the soc...

Youth Rising Los Angeles Summit

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:03:22 -0500

Evening event as well! A fundraiser for the youth projects created during the day...

Natural Building Internship

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:41:00 -0500

Community Rebuilds is an initiative to build affordable and energy efficient homes for the workforce in Moab, Utah. We assist families that own homes in disrepair (such as manufactured homes built prior to 1976) to recycle the existing structure and build a new home using green construction practices and products. <...

Internship Opportunity - Tour Liaisons

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:51:37 -0500

Internship Opportunity—Tour Liaison
Otesha Cycling and Performing Tours
www.otesha.ca

The Otesha Project is seeking 14 dedicated, organized, fun-loving individuals, aged 18 to 30, to serve as Tour Liaisons for its 2008 cycling and performing tours. As part of a team of 15 to 20 performers, you will take care of all administrative and on-the-road logistics for the tour. Successful candidates will support team members as individuals, foster a positive team environment, support teams in achieving tour object...

Support Darfur, Earn Money & Help a Student at the Same Time

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:51:33 -0500

OneBigU (http://www.onebigu.com) allows users to help a struggling student, earn some money, and support a Darfur Charity at the same time.

OneBigU (for One Big University) helps Darfur in the following way:

- Person answers a question asked by any student around the world

- Person gets a little amount of money for every accepted answer

- Person sends the money to a partner Darfur charity, unless he/she wants to withdraw the money

OneBigU is partnered with Help Darfur Now (HDN), a US-based student charity in support of Darfur. All d...

American Imperialism: Second Thoughts on Charlie Wilsonâ€™s War
by Chalmers Johnson

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:10:03 -0500

As the presidential election approaches it may be tempting to associate US Imperialist behavior with Republicans alone. Try to resist. This article is a clear and intelligent primer on the historical antecedents to our current global nightmare. And the administration occupying the point position here is not GW’s but rather that of the Noble Peace prize winning Jimmy Carter, America’s favorite ex-prez.

The events of 9/11 were forged during the Carter administration when then defense secretary, Zbignew Brezinsky, the true architect of 9/11 advised the president to auth...

Carpooling Application

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:47:52 -0500

With carpooling in a steady decline despite the highest gas prices ever and record traffic congestion, two new online firms want to revive ride-sharing by piggybacking on social networking sites.

The startup services, through the popular Facebook.com, attack obstacles that have held back ride-sharing programs: the fear of sharing a car with a stranger and reaching the “critical mass” of numbers required to effectively match up people for rides. Related Stories

The site’s core users, college students and recent grads, could turn out to be the perfect ...

The $10 per Gallon World

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:40:29 -0500

c/o Adei Ressi Blog (see link below)

We are already living in a $10 per gallon of gasoline world. Did that get your attention? Here are some things to think about:

The average yield of gasoline per barrel of oil differs widely based on the quality of the oil (logical), ranging from 5% to 30% of the 42 gallons in a barrel when using straightforward conversion methods. The price per barrel of oil that you read about is normally the â€œgood stuffâ€ (Texas or Arabian grade), yielding over 12 gallons of gasoline per barrel and as much as two thirds in prime conditions.

NYC PASSES PLASTIC BAG RECYCLING BILL

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:11:38 -0500

NYC PASSES PLASTIC BAG RECYCLING BILL

Last week, New York City took a giant step forward in the fight against plastic. New York’s City Council passed a bill requiring large stores and retail chains to collect and recycle plastic shopping bags. According to a New York Times report: “New York is by far the largest American city to enact so broad a measure to limit the environmental impact of the bags. Altogether, each year the country is estimated to use 86 billion bags, which end up blowing down city streets, or tangled in the stomachs of wh...

If I Could Change the World

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:00:34 -0500

Please see my website at

http://millty.weebly.com/if-i-could-change-the-world.html

Demar

Hummer Ad

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:41:04 -0500

While Hummer is often held up as the poster child for corporate irresponsibility this ad offers an interesting perspective that defends Hummer’s service as a disaster rescue vehicle.

Any thoughts on this new perspective?

Nau's Thought Kitchen: Cutting Through the Crap

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:35:37 -0500

From Nau’s Thought Kitchen (see link below) -

I recently spoke with Zoe Cameron, who hails from Toronto but is currently living in London. She works as an award-wining freelance journalist specializing in science, environmental, and health-related stories. When I went to check out her blog Zoetic I found the following post pertaining to the United Nations Development Programme report: â€œFighting Climate Change: Human Solidarity in a Divided World.â€ Zoe contends that â€œthereâ€™s no better way to cut through the crap and get right to the point than with some simple stat...

Want to coach young social entrepreneurs?

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:51:07 -0500

Are you a seasoned social innovator? Have experience that you would like to share? ....A burning love for social change?

Be a Conscious Lifestyle Liaison!

A Liaison serves as a mentor to new CL ventures, helping them with: â€¢ development and design â€¢ infrastructure and management â€¢ organizational growth â€¢ quality control â€¢ publicity/outreach

As a Conscious Lifestyle liaison, youâ€™ll get the opportunity to work with outstanding students leaders, help to cultivate the growing movement of â€œconscious livingâ€, be a part of a vibrant young up-s...

Get $1,000 for your Socially Innovative Idea

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:44:36 -0500

Are you passionate about making the world a better place? Have an idea about how to make your fellow students and your school more socially responsible? Want to turn that idea into a realityâ€¦?

Conscious Lifestyle is accepting applications for its venture program.

Submit an application for the chance to win:

Up to $1,000 in start-up funding
Web space on consciouslifestyle.org
Monthly skill-building workshops
Personalized support
Access to a network of social entrepreneurs

Urban Bike Sharing Coming To The U.S.

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:51:02 -0500

Remember the war monger corporation ‘Clear Channel’? They’re the ones who sponsored the infamous outdoor rallies supporting the invasion of Iraq, denouncing Arab-Americans, and the crucifiction of the Dixie Chicks; not to mention their business model which includes the saturation of the American landscape by mega corporate billboards…Well folks. I am here to report that they are up to something new.

Something good!

Something good? No, I can’t believe it either. But apparently its true.

Let me explain. You see a couple of years ...

Forget the Electric Car: This one runs on compressed air!

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:00:58 -0500

When I first saw this article I thought it was a joke until I watched the BBC video linked to it. This car costs about three grand, goes 200 km on a single tank of compressed air. No pollution and just a couple of dollars to fill the tank. How quickly will big oil see to it that the inventors are murdered, production halted, and any and all reference to it expunged from the national media?

Cable Giants want our Internet and they are Willing to Cheat to Get it!

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:08:15 -0500

One of things I really hate in this world is evil, malicious, and predatory people and institutions who work tirelessly to strip away our basic rights and privileges pretending to be forward thinking progressive and pro-human. Nowhere are these malevolent forces found more plentiful then in the area of corporate media and its attendant efforts to shut down our ability to communicate in a free and critical exchange of ideas and information.

Aided by their obedient lapdog, the FCC, these super-mega media giants have ended all reasonable and necessary prot...

Drug Abuse

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:43:20 -0500

I chose to write about this topic because it’s becoming too much of a big issue. Not only that, but I’ve seen too many people I know take the path of the “drug world” and end up broke, homeless, and without an education. This is my issue of passion because I was once introduced to this world and too many people get caught up in it making it their whole life. We need to stop the transport and selling of these drugs that are affecting families, neighborhoods, communities, and the world.

A Thousand Words

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:09:32 -0500

This site contains info-graphics in the form of flags of various countries. Very interesting manner of conveying some very stark realities.
Top 25 Censored News Stories of 2007

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:37:59 -0500

1 Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media

2 Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran

3 Oceans of the World in Extreme Danger

4 Hunger and Homelessness Increasing in the US

5 High-Tech Genocide in Congo

6 Federal Whistleblower Protection in Jeopardy
1. 7 US Operatives Torture Detainees to Death in Afghanistan and Iraq
8 Pentagon Exempt from Freedom of Information Act

9 The World Bank Funds Israel-Palestine Wall

10 Expanded Air War in Iraq K...
Cementing Israeli Apartheid: The Role of World Bank

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:31:17 -0500

Despite the 2004 International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision that called for tearing down the Wall and compensating affected communities, construction of the Wall has accelerated. The route of the barrier runs deep into Palestinian territory, aiding the annexation of Israeli settlements and the breaking of Palestinian territorial continuity. The World Bankâ€™s vision of â€œeconomic development,â€ however, evades any discussion of the Wallâ€™s illegality. The World Bank has meanwhile outlined the framework for a Palestinian Middle East Free Trade Area (MEFTA) policy in their most recen...

Big Oil lets sun set on renewables

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:39:58 -0500

Shell, the oil company that recently trumpeted its commitment to a low carbon future by signing a pre-Bali conference communique, has quietly sold off most of its solar business.

The move, taken with rival BP’s decision last week to invest in the world’s dirtiest oil production in Canada’s tar sands, indicates that Big Oil might be giving up its flirtation with renewables and going back to its roots.

Shell and BP are among the biggest producers of greenhouse gases in the world, but both have been keen to paint themselves green through a series of cle...

CSRwire Reports Top Corporate Social Responsibility News of 2007

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:08:04 -0500

CSRwire Reports Top Corporate Social Responsibility News of 2007

Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize helps validate business case for addressing climate crisis, Sudan divestment progresses, Starbucks agrees to Ethiopian coffee trademarks, and much more…

In 2007, corporate social responsibility (CSR) continued the momentum of the past several years, shifting this year from mainstream recognition to widespread action. The scale and scope of business-led solutions is rising to meet the severity of the monumental environmental and social challenges facing us, from the...

If you were born between 1987 and 1990 this coming election will be your first chance to pick a president! Whoops, my bad. I forgot that American Elections are now completely fraudulent!

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:30:14 -0500

20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA

by Angry Girl of

Nightweed.com

CLICK HERE for printable version Did you know…. 1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold

2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry.

http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04....

Displaced Fleeing War in Somalia Face Humanitarian Crisis

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:18:50 -0500

Tens of thousands of Somalis are living in camps like this one north of the capital, Mogadishu, suffering from a lack of water, food, and access to medical treatment.

The violence in Somalia escalated this year to some of the worst levels in over 15 years, causing an unknown number of civilian casualties and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people from the capital. Many of those remaining in Mogadishu are staying in makeshift camps with little more than ripped cloth and plastic sheeting for shelter and are exposed to a high degree of violence

Top 10 Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2007

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:16:49 -0500

Displaced Fleeing War in Somalia Face Humanitarian Crisis enlarge image

Somalia 2007 Â© Jehad Nga

Tens of thousands of Somalis are living in camps like this one, north of the capital Mogadishu, suffering from a lack of water, food, shelter, and access to medical treatment.

As violence in Somalia escalated this year to some of the worst levels in over 15 years, both assistance for and attention to one of the most challenging and acute humanitarian situations in the world seemed to wane. Ethiopian troops and Transitional Federal Government forces, supported by...

Trichinosis

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:53:47 -0500

Enter Message / description of files attached:

Dear Red States

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:12:36 -0500

Dear Red States We’re ticked off at the way you’ve treated California, and we’ve decided we’re leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we’re taking the other Blue States with us. In case you aren’t aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and the entire Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California. To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states. We get stem cell research and the best beach...

Tools for White Guys who are Working for Social Change

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:56:55 -0500

Tools for White Guys who are Working for Social Change (and other people socialized in a society based on domination)

1. Practice noticing who’s in the room at meetings – how many men, how many women, how many white people, how many people of color, is it majority heterosexual, are there out queers, what are people’s class backgrounds. Don’t assume to know people, but also work at being more aware.

2a. Count how many times you speak and keep track of how long you speak.

2b. Count how many times other people speak and keep track of how...

Five Simple Ways to Prepare for the Imminent Demise of the Fossil Fuel Era

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:25:06 -0500

Five Simple Ways to Prepare for the Imminent Demise of the Fossil Fuel Era By John O. Andersen December 28, 2007

It’s a fact. The era of cheap plentiful oil, and natural gas is over.

In the coming decade, there will be a major shift to alternative energy sources. To put it mildly, this necessary change will result in tremendous turmoil worldwide. It’s gonna get ugly.

Smart people will begin preparing now.

Here are five simple ways to do just that; to transition from a wasteful mainstream North American lifestyle to a deliberate, inform...

Happy Winter Solstice to all!

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:20:58 -0500

I found the attached document on the internet and I do not know the author (although I wish it had been me!)

Happy Festivas everyone!

Against Hypocrisy

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 15:26:23 -0500

Against Hypocrisy

My friends work at corporations. My family invests in corporations. I eat at corporations. The corporation is an organization of human activity â€“ both inside the corporate entity and to those it serves.

What am I to think on the corporate model if I was raised on â€˜corporate milkâ€™ (literally and figuratively)? What am I to think about the same corporation that I grab my fries at or that I gas up my car (donâ€™t actually own one), or that I wear to the gym? I believe that the corporate model is a fundamentally efficient model of organizing human...

Ally Request - Li Li Parsons

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:15:30 -0500

Ally Request - Matthew Buongiorno

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:39:19 -0400

Ally Request - DragonTHINK

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:42:25 -0400

Ally Request - Chris Advansun

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:44:25 -0400

Ally Request - amphibia

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:51:34 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Jennifer McRae

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:16:29 -0400

Ally Request - Deliver Darfur

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:30:00 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Deliver Darfur

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:16:25 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Jesse Smale

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:05:36 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Alec Henderson

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:14:59 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Josh Cohen

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:14:55 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Lesley Schuster

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:16:57 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Dollars for Change

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:11:22 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Ian Wooden

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 20:47:56 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Jonathan Levin High School for Media & Communications

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:24:05 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Technology For People Group Inc.

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:01:58 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Mike Pritchard

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:51:47 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Rainforest Alliance

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:48:26 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Philip McMaster

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:23:13 -0400

Ally Request - manifesto_old

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:42:05 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Nour

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:30:33 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - YouthNoise

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:39:05 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Alex

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:49:20 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Rachel

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:26:41 -0400

Rethos.com - NESEI's Global Feed

Ally Request - John Ott, Jr.

Enviro-Friendly Cookies

Top Small Workplaces Video

Top Small Workplaces of 2008

Blogging Connects Women Across the World

Nicaraguan President Ortega Not Welcome at Salvador Summit, Women Activists Say

The Bloc Party

Summer Job with Web Startup Company

Founding Director of Product Research

Founding-Level National Field Director

Youth Rising Los Angeles Summit

Natural Building Internship

Internship Opportunity - Tour Liaisons

Support Darfur, Earn Money & Help a Student at the Same Time

American Imperialism: Second Thoughts on Charlie Wilsonâ€™s War by Chalmers Johnson

Carpooling Application

The $10 per Gallon World

NYC PASSES PLASTIC BAG RECYCLING BILL

If I Could Change the World

Hummer Ad

Nau's Thought Kitchen: Cutting Through the Crap

Want to coach young social entrepreneurs?

Get $1,000 for your Socially Innovative Idea

Urban Bike Sharing Coming To The U.S.

Forget the Electric Car: This one runs on compressed air!

Cable Giants want our Internet and they are Willing to Cheat to Get it!

Drug Abuse

A Thousand Words

Top 25 Censored News Stories of 2007

1 Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media

2 Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran

3 Oceans of the World in Extreme Danger

4 Hunger and Homelessness Increasing in the US

5 High-Tech Genocide in Congo

6 Federal Whistleblower Protection in Jeopardy

8 Pentagon Exempt from Freedom of Information Act

9 The World Bank Funds Israel-Palestine Wall

10 Expanded Air War in Iraq K...

Cementing Israeli Apartheid: The Role of World Bank

Big Oil lets sun set on renewables

CSRwire Reports Top Corporate Social Responsibility News of 2007

If you were born between 1987 and 1990 this coming election will be your first chance to pick a president! Whoops, my bad. I forgot that American Elections are now completely fraudulent!

Displaced Fleeing War in Somalia Face Humanitarian Crisis

Top 10 Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2007

Trichinosis

Dear Red States

Tools for White Guys who are Working for Social Change

Five Simple Ways to Prepare for the Imminent Demise of the Fossil Fuel Era

Happy Winter Solstice to all!

Against Hypocrisy

Ally Request - Li Li Parsons

Ally Request - Matthew Buongiorno

Ally Request - DragonTHINK

Ally Request - Chris Advansun

Ally Request - amphibia

Alliance Accepted! - Jennifer McRae

Ally Request - Deliver Darfur

Alliance Accepted! - Deliver Darfur

Alliance Accepted! - Jesse Smale

Alliance Accepted! - Alec Henderson

Alliance Accepted! - Josh Cohen

Alliance Accepted! - Lesley Schuster

Alliance Accepted! - Dollars for Change

Alliance Accepted! - Ian Wooden

Alliance Accepted! - Jonathan Levin High School for Media & Communications

Alliance Accepted! - Technology For People Group Inc.

Alliance Accepted! - Mike Pritchard

Alliance Accepted! - Rainforest Alliance

Alliance Accepted! - Philip McMaster

Ally Request - manifesto_old

Alliance Accepted! - Nour

Alliance Accepted! - YouthNoise

Alliance Accepted! - Alex

Alliance Accepted! - Rachel

American Imperialism: Second Thoughts on Charlie Wilsonâ€™s War
by Chalmers Johnson