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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. My brother and I started Numi about seven years ago, from here in Oakland, California, and we started in my small apartment up the street, near Piedmont Avenue. Britt: Oakland needs more businesses like Numi.

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Brahm Ahmadi, People's Grocery, Podcast Transcript

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The primary need, obviously, in our community, West Oakland, is a lack of access to healthy and affordable foods. Our youth are working creatively to create other ways of communicating those messages in terms of workshops and presentations that are fun, engaging, and cool, and that's a very important aspect.

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Big Vision Podcast: Steve Williams from POWER

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SOUL is located here in the Bay area, in Oakland. I will also be posting a transcript of this interview on my blog, Have Fun, Do Good, at havefundogood.blogspot.com. If you like the music, it is from Kenya Masala's "Mango Delight" and you can learn more about Kenya's work and his music by going to sourceconsultinggroup.com.

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Ask Britt: How can I combine the creative arts with social impact?

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The arts are a wonderful way to make a difference in the world because they are fun, engaging, and oftentimes help you to tell stories, all key elements to attracting and keeping people involved in a cause. Just an fyi (: Photo taken by me at March 2003 Iraq War protest in Oakland, CA creativity activism art film craft photography music.

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Alli Chagi-Starr, Art in Action/Ella Baker Center, Podcast Interview Transcription

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The slogan is "Green Collar Jobs, not Jails" and what we're trying to promote a big vision which includes being able to employ formerly incarcerated people from the Oakland area, "at risk" -- quote unquote -- people from this area into jobs which don't hurt the environment, that actually help sustain us as a community. It creates a sense of.

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