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OCTOBER 7, 2009

It started with a trip to Crown and Crumpet in San Francisco, a tea salon in Ghiradelli Square. Numi Tea is an environmentally and socially responsible tea company based in Oakland (but you can buy their tea nationally). Staycations are not only affordable, they're also a great way to support your local businesses.

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AUGUST 9, 2007

As I mentioned last week, I'll be speaking about blogging at the Writing for Change Conference in San Francisco this month. I'm a literary agent in San Francisco, with the Larsen-Pomada Literary Agents , and we've been in business a long time here in San Francisco. Britt: How are you making the event green?

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FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt! Listen Read 2007 Reem Rahim, Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Numi Tea Listen Read Jodie van Horn, Campaigner for Rainforest Action Network's Freedom From Oil campaign, and Coordinator for Plug-In Bay Area Listen Read Priya Haji, CEO and Co-founder, World of Good.

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APRIL 17, 2009

While re-reading Echoing Green's book, Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact , I've been thinking about one of its main ideas--that people have moments of obligation. One of my moments of obligation came during the Green Festival in San Francisco in the fall of 2002. A lot of things have changed since 2002.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

The organization and challenge: After years of traditional fund-raising events, Catholic Charities CYO (CC) in San Francisco decided its approach was getting stale and that it needed to broaden its audience to include opportunities for young people. Fundraising Events. www.taprootfoundation.org.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

Caravan Studios , a division of TechSoup, hosted a breakfast in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood for nonprofits, app developers, and anyone interested in changing the world for the better. Open Data San Francisco. The lineup began with an overview of San Francisco's OpenData Program.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Alli is now the Business Partners & Events Manager at Green For All and Art in Action Youth Leadership Program). If you're not a listener, you can listen to the show on the Big Vision Podcast site, or subscribe via iTunes or another podcatcher. Listen Read Martin Fisher, Co-founder and CEO of KickStart Listen Read ?

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OCTOBER 31, 2006

In June 1975, during the the International Women's Year, governments and women from all over the world met in Mexico City for the United Nation's First International Wonmen's Conference. At the time, Maathai was a member of the National Council of Women of Kenya (NCWK). The Green Belt Movement was born.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Example: Service Nation's Change Wire blog posts weekly, Monday Service News Roundups. Example: When Kjerstin Erickson, Founder of FORGE, blogged about her organization's struggles on Social Edge , she received an outpouring of support, plus stories in the San Francisco Chronicle and Wall Street Journal.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Marisa Handler, author, Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist Listen Read Cami Walker, Founder, 29-Day Giving Challenge Listen Read Marianne Manilov, National Team Leader, The Engage Network Listen Read Favianna Rodriguez, Political Digital Artist and Printmaker. Listen Read Martin Fisher, Co-founder and CEO, KickStart Listen Read ?

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OCTOBER 16, 2007

Last week, at NetSquared's San Francisco Net Tuesday Meetup, Steve Miller, Product Manager, Google Earth Outreach spoke to a room of 50+ social changemakers and web innovators about how nonprofits can use Google Earth Outreach for their work. Full disclosure: I am NetSquared's Community Builder.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 20, 2012

According to the San. Francisco-based nonprofit, Forest Ethics , more than 100 billion pieces of junk mail are delivered in the U.S. For tips on how to deal with business junk mail, see the National Waste Prevention Coalition's Reduce Business Junk Mail website. Here are some practical things. Why Opt Out?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

On August 29, 2011 some of us from TechSoup attended NTEN's Nonprofit Cloud Computing Summit in San Francisco. Here are some additional revelations from the presentation: There are no national or international cloud security standards or best practices yet. There is something called the Generally Accepted Privacy Principles.

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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. Jodie Van Horn: Plug-In Bay Area is a national grassroots effort to try to commercialize plug-in hybrid vehicles.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 15, 2016

It's not so much that I've been a writer on green technology at TechSoup over the years. In our own office in San Francisco, we now collect and recycle all glass, metals, plastics (yes, every kind of plastic), paper, and anything compostable (mostly food scraps). That's getting pretty far out there.

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OCTOBER 29, 2007

Also in the running and campaigning hard are (in alphabetical order) Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation; Citizens for Global Solutions, Faithful Security; Genocide Intervention Network; Global Green USA; National Religious Campaign Against Torture; and Women’s Action for New Directions. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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MAY 4, 2010

For us, that means everything from the events that we do at home, where we have completely green events, to how we live our own lives, the things that we buy, the way that we run our office -- all of these things, to us, are important as we move forward and truly model what it means to create a world that we want to live in.

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There arealso two Lean Impact Summits taking place, one in December in NYC and one in January in San Francisco (I’m a judge for the San Francisco event). Linda Robinson, Gateway Green (Board Chair). Gateway Green is a project in Portland to turn a stretch of unused land into a multi-use bike park.

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MARCH 13, 2009

I found out that the kindergartner I'll be working with likes pizza, the color green, pirates, sports and dinosaurs. In 2002, Eggers co-founded a writing center for young people, 826 Valencia, in San Francisco. For example, in the Bay Area we have San Francisco School Volunteers , and Berkeley School Volunteers.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

BlogYoNoMo (Blog Your Novel Month) Inspired by National Novel Writing Month. Corante , and other topics for The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Worthwhile , and The New York Times. Corante , and other topics for The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Worthwhile , and The New York Times.

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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. The National Gardening Association has shown that 35% of Americans have gardens, which is a really exciting statistic (I love statistics). We also have one in San Francisco. Is it really local?

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MARCH 5, 2021

Green Foundation. i, New York City, Northeastern Pennsylvania, San Francisco, and Israel (plus surrounding rural communities of listed cities). The mission of this foundation is to encourage women’s involvement in philanthropy and make a significant difference in the Southern San Francisco community. Mary’s Pence.

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APRIL 7, 2022

Green Foundation. i, New York City, Northeastern Pennsylvania, San Francisco, and Israel (plus surrounding rural communities of listed cities). The mission of this foundation is to encourage women’s involvement in philanthropy and make a significant difference in the Southern San Francisco community. Mary’s Pence.

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JANUARY 6, 2007

Kevin Danaher is the co-founder of the nonprofit Global Exchange which co-sponsors the Green Festivals with Co-op America. Kevin talks about the Global Citizen Center, a large mixed use building in downtown San Francisco that will serve as a hub for ecologically and socially responsible enterprise, education and economic development.

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JUNE 30, 2007

I moved to San Francisco. And then another program is Reclaim the Future, which is one our newest projects, that is addressing green-color jobs and building opportunities for low-income people, formerly convicted people, and communities of color in this new green economy. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

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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. Thanks for listening.

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