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MAY 4, 2007

By profiling individuals and organizations who enact various visions of utopia, Oakland's Britt Bravo expresses her own hope for a better world. The name of another of Bravo's blogs, "Have Fun * Do Good," may be her daily mantra, but "big vision" is an equally apt tagline ???

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

While reading one of my guilty pleasure blogs, Ecorazzi: The Latest in Green Gossip , I learned about a fun way to help dogs and cats get adopted in their post, Celebrities Sign up to Twitter a Critter. I just Twittered another critter, a Maine Coon in Oakland named Amos , in the middle of writing this post.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Carl Sagan One of the items on my Fun-Do List for Thanksgiving was to try some new recipes, and boy, did I! Mixed Greens with Green Apples, Beets and Pistachios from Vegan Holiday Kitchen. I ended up buying fresh Roasted Butternut and Chestnut Ravioli in Pumpkin Pasta from Market Hall in Oakland. I liked this salad.

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

Our second tea tasting stop was the Numi Tea Garden in Oakland. Numi Tea is an environmentally and socially responsible tea company based in Oakland (but you can buy their tea nationally). Our two weekends of tea tasting adventures were fun, and got me excited to find other local tea houses locally, and when we travel.

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MAY 21, 2006

Last Thursday I went to hear Majora Carter from Sustainable South Bronx , Paul Hawken , author of Natural Capitalism and The Ecology of Commerce , Van Jones from the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , Geralina Fortier from People's Grocery , and Bruce Cox of the Alliance for West Oakland Development speak at the first Solutions Salon.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2008

A big thanks to everyone who listens to the program and reads the interview transcripts here on Have Fun * Do Good. Scotlan Youth Program in West Oakland. February 18, 2008 was the 2nd anniversary of the Big Vision Podcast ! Over the past two years I have had the privilege of interviewing 30 "Big Visionaries."

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AUGUST 6, 2008

Last week I announced a new weekly feature that I'm trying out on Have Fun * Do Good, Ask Britt , where you send in questions related to career design for artists and activists, and I'll do my best to answer them. Here are a few ideas for your husband's new business venture: • Be green. Be a community gathering space.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

A big thanks to everyone who listens to the program, and reads the interview transcripts here on Have Fun * Do Good. Alli is now the Business Partners & Events Manager at Green For All and Art in Action Youth Leadership Program). Scotland Youth Program in West Oakland.

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

For example, I live in Oakland, CA where according to an August 2008 Oakland Tribune article , 17.6% of Oakland residents are living in poverty. Here are a few related posts: Four Big Thinkers' Ideas on Going Green, Ending Poverty from Treehugger.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Listen / Read Elizabeth Pomada Co-Founder, Writing for Change Conference Listen Read Marsha Wallace, Founder, Dining for Women Listen Read Shalini Kantayya, Filmmaker, A Drop of Life.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Listen Read Elizabeth Pomada Co-Founder, Writing for Change Conference Listen Read Marsha Wallace, Founder, Dining for Women Listen Read Shalini Kantayya, Filmmaker, A Drop of Life. Listen Read Nola Brantley, Parenting and Youth Enrichment Director, and the Coordinator of the Sexually Abused and Commercially Exploited Youth Program at the George P.

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DECEMBER 5, 2008

Inside the box was a brochure for the Oakland Zoo. Christmas and Other Holidays: Gifts of Time on Jeri's Organizing & Decluttering News Green Giving: Experiential and the Gift of Time on Eco - Action Flickr photo credit: Sand Dollar uploaded by Bart Everson. It said, "A trip to the zoo!" Cross-posted from Blogher.com

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MARCH 1, 2007

Scotlan Youth Program in West Oakland. Listen Read Nola Brantley, Parenting and Youth Enrichment Director, and the Coordinator of the Sexually Abused and Commercially Exploited Youth Program at the George P.

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JUNE 6, 2008

For example, when I type in my zip code in Oakland, CA, it tells me, "Your electricity provider, Pacific Gas Electric Co., Here are posts by a few of them: Little Green Animals Life in Small Bites Environment Blog faithfull on the Daily Kos STOP Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining mountaintop removal coal blogger blog activism Appalachia

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JANUARY 24, 2007

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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FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Listen / Read Elizabeth Pomada Co-Founder, Writing for Change Conference Listen Read Marsha Wallace, Founder of Dining for Women Listen Read Shalini Kantayya, filmmaker, A Drop of Life.

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MARCH 9, 2007

The three Bay Area municipalities, along with Oakland and San Francisco (who haven't placed their orders yet) have all signed-on to be part of Plug-In Bay Area, an initiative to put more plug-in hybrid vehicles on the road. They recognize that green is very vogue right now. What's going on?

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

inspired by Julia Butterfly Hill's tree-sit, Off the Mat Into the World , founded by yoga teacher Seane Corn, and Green for All , founded by Van Jones. You see, perhaps, Julia Butterfly Hill, who sat in a tree, or you see Van Jones, who's the leader of Green For All, or maybe you see somebody else. Off the Mat, and Green For All.

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JANUARY 30, 2009

Jennifer is a certified coach, artist and yogini based in Oakland, California. They can make it as fun and enjoyable as they want. Related blogs Jennifer Lee's Life Unfolds Green Career Central Commongood Careers Cross-posted from BlogHer.com. Jennifer Lee career nonprofit activist entrepreneur advice green coaching

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JANUARY 16, 2009

--Favianna Rodriguez Below is the edited transcript of a Big Vision Podcast interview from November 13, 2008 with Favianna Rodriguez, a political digital artist and printmaker based in Oakland, California. Even stuff around "green." I feel like, as artists, it's our responsibility to make a commentary on our contemporary society.

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APRIL 24, 2007

Paul Rice, the founding president and CEO of the Oakland based nonprofit, TransFair USA , answers these questions and others in an interview for the Big Vision Podcast. For more information about TransFair USA go to www.transfairusa.org Britt Bravo also blogs at Have Fun * Do Good , NetSquared and BlogHer.

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AUGUST 29, 2010

She is also co-host of the radio show, The Queens of Green on Green 960 , which you can also be downloaded as a podcast. Everywhere I go and talk about the book, it's so fun to meet a new community of food producers. City Slickers Farm is taking over a park, with the support of the city of Oakland. Back to the models.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

He was recently named 2009 Young Professional of the Year by the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. Jose sits on various economic development boards: the Oakland Workforce Investment Board, the Bay Area Business Advisory Board of Directors for the Consulate General of Mexico in San Francisco, and the OneCalifornia Bank Advisory Board.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

It’s Friday, and I’m writing this from the hammock in my sunny North Oakland garden, so life ain’t all that bad. (I A few more nuggets to take you into the weekend: Taking the fun out of everything : A startup is charging $1.99 Come on, that’s half the fun! PDT, subscribe here. Good morning, you wonderful specimens of humanity!

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JUNE 30, 2007

One of the things for me, in going to protests and demonstrations about different issues, is that I felt that the protests were really boring, dry and preachy, not fun and compelling. And as Britt said, I also am the Art and Media Director at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , which is based out of Oakland. That's great.

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APRIL 25, 2007

When I went to see Van Jones speak for the first time at the Green Festival in November 2002 about, "Green Jobs, Not Packed Jails," people in the States were just starting to lift their heads up from a year of fear and despair after September 11th. Our question is, will this green wave lift all boats? How do we make sure?

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JUNE 29, 2006

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.

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