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Balancing People, Profit & Planet: An Interview with Reem Rahim of Numi Tea

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Reem Rahim is the Co-founder and Vice President of Marketing of the Oakland-based green business Numi Tea. I am an artist and I was getting my Masters of Fine Arts at the time from John F. The folks in South Africa, where we get our Rooibos and Honeybush, actually have sort of earning rights. tea fair trade green business

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My Latest President's Update

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When he was 22, Craig launched a company to help partially sighted children. He plans to start a search fund (a vehicle for entrepreneurs to raise funds from investors) to find businesses – and intellectual property – that have a social focus to help out developing countries, particularly South Africa.

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Women's Earth Alliance: Co-Directors Melinda Kramer and Amira Diamond

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Women hold these toxins in their body, and this is what they have to pass on to their children. What we heard was that our colleagues in Africa really needed support around water. MK: So, we just returned from Ghana in West Africa where we convened the 2010 West African Women and Water Training. Over 90 percent of U.S.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

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Does anyone in the room identify as an artist, by any chance? I just want to dispel the myth that we are not activists and that we are not artists. One will be for mothers who are mourning the loss of their children who died in gunfights in Oakland. I also produce several podcasts, one of which is called the Big Vision Podcast.

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