Where does your candidate stand on predatory lending?

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:00:45 -0400

Sick of banks and credit card companies coming up with ways to get your cash?

Do you want an end to the predatory lending practice that caused the subprime mortgage mess?

Check out this short article from PBS Now that lays out both Presidential Candidates' take on the issue.

Then visit our Campaign Center

William McDonough at Bioneers 2000

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:35:25 -0400

Another visionary who has so much to offer. (His book "Cradle to Cradle", is essential reading for anyone considering environmental design issues.) More info/links on McDonough and his various projects can be found at http://www.mcdonough.com.

Paul Hawken (if you need a little inspiration)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:18:49 -0400

This is an inspiring presentation re: the topic of Paul Hawken's most recent book, "Blessed Unrest".

His clear thinking - visionary, yet practical - is exactly what is needed in a world embarking on a global social revolution. Read his books and give them as gifts to everyone you know. Seriously.

Cage Free Eggs: Behind the Myth

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:03:34 -0400

From HumaneMyth.org, which was created by award-winning filmmakers James LaVeck and Jenny Stein and launched this week.

Sustainable Energy Summit: The Ball is Rollin'

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:30:47 -0400

The sustainable energy summit on Saturday at UMass-Amherst went splendidly! Just about everyone we talked to was enthusiastic about the project, and feel it is about time something like this happened. Everyone is tired of a society that can't get its priorities straight, and are glad to see an organization dedicated to financially empowering communities.

We did a presentation to a group of about ten people and got some important feedback on the project, mostly positive and some constructive. It's interesting how sometimes those who seem like your greatest foes can be your biggest...

Common Good Finance's Progress

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:52:10 -0400

Common Food Finance, which was set up to create Common Good Banks, strives to be as transparent, open, and honest as humanly possible. We wholeheartedly believe that an honest society is a fair one, and that without honesty there can be no democracy. So, we are letting you know how the project is going and getting you up to speed.

The project has been going on some form or another for six years now and we're prepared to work as long as it takes to get the bank off the ground. We recognize that most of the social problems we have today, poverty, education underfunding, war, etc., ...

Common Good Banks

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:06:44 -0400

Senators Caught in Mortgage Fallout

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:21:09 -0400

When Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota wanted a mortgage for his beach house, he turned to a Washington insider, James A. Johnson, former head of Fannie Mae, the government mortgage giant, who then put the senator in touch with

Ally Request - Matthew Gassen

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:37:16 -0400

Ally Request - The Mountain Fund

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:11:37 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - David Barrie

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:00:55 -0400

New comment! - Urban Harvesting - Collect And Distribute Local Foods

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:57:21 -0400

You're right. I ran a project last year in the U.K. in which people grew food in their backyards, schools and hospitals in their front yards and the city authority's environment department grew food in parks. We harvested the final crop and it provided enough food for 2000 people, in an event attended by 8000. The town has a population of 140,000. We grew across over 150 sites. It fed 2000. Sounds like a useful harvest to me! More here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/mar/26/cityfood

Slaves to the cult of de-clutter

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:46:34 -0400

For many years, the model for successful urban life has been the noise, disorderliness and messy mix of people and traffic of SoHo, New York.

Alongside, creative expression has denied linearity and minimalism: be it ironic, awkward Britart, whimsy, casual Goldfrapp, feature-length social documentary film-making, the If you live near the Brooklyn waterfront like I do you know what a treasure the New York skyline is. Most cities are known by a single building or monument – think Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, even the Hollywood sign in L.A. New York, too big for any one thing to ever represent, is symbolized by the city itself, the cheek by jowl mishmosh of its architecture as much as its citizenry, its denizenry, its ever changing expan...

A moral dog's breakfast

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:10:41 -0500

Last year, Gastronomica, the journal of food and culture, ran a special edition on the politics of food.

The magazine carried a review of the latest book<...

Are foodies killing us?

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:08:51 -0500

This is a picture of some radishes I saw at a market in New Delhi, India last year.

They look delicious, weird - like something out of a David Lynch movie - and their abundance would warm the hearts and pans of all foodies.

But is fawning appr...

Animals and Culture, Part Deux

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:20:49 -0500

Animals and Culture, Part Deux

Part of our culture is the media that confirms the values we're supposed to have. In most of the United States, when we're young, we play with all manner of furry creatures and stuffed animals, and most of us enjoy that experience and feel a kinship with other creatures. At the same time, our parents and the world around us tell us that our instinct of kinship across-the-board is not acceptable, and they begin to whittle away at any connection we naturally experience with other creatures, with the excepti...

Excellent Video on Earth Day TV

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:25:30 -0500

Here is an excellent video from the Earth Day Network - It's a production of the University of South FLorida, about an hour long, and very inspiring! A great model for what we can do with the 3 finger Solution! Look at www.SustainabilitySymbol.com and check out EarthDay TV

Get Real - Towards A Compassionate Medical Marijuana Policy

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:05:40 -0500

Isn’t it finally time for a compassionate medical marijuana policy? For too long the issue has been held up by cultural prejudices and long held political grudges. It’s the old hippie/square square-off and its time now to get over it and act like adults when it comes to health care. In a country where there are still open wounds over the Civil War, and in a world where millennium-old grudges are still at play in the Middle East and elsewhere, it’s no surprise that irritations over Jane Fonda and burned draft cards still ring loud and clear in our politics today. Wha...

Tell the Senate to Stop Foreclosures!

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:44:16 -0500

In the aftermath of reckless subprime lending, our nation's economy is in serious trouble. This week the Senate will vote on a new bill that would prevent unnecessary foreclosures and stabilize the housing market. Please take a moment now to tell your Senators to support this bill – call toll-free 1-800-580-5739 to be connected with them. Here’s a sample message:

I understand that the Senate will vote this week on Senator Reid's "Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008," S. 2636. This is a time to st...

Jim Campen on Fox Business

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:29:38 -0500

Jim Campen, Executive Director of Americans For Fairness In Lending, tells it like it is on Fox Business! Check it out:

Animals and Culture

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:32:56 -0500

Animals and Culture

Through an accident of birth and geography, you grew up with a certain name for your god and certain beliefs about animals. You were taught that some animals are for eating and some are for petting. And yet others are for entertainment. Your beliefs about your god and about animals are similar in that, whether you think of it this way or not, you hold them both sacred.

But what does it mean to hold something sacred? Why do we cling to beliefs and customs? Is there something intri...

Success! 120,000 Valentines going to Congress

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:27:41 -0500

We did it! Right now, 120,000 Valentine’s Day postcards are being delivered to Congress telling them that we've had enough credit card tricks and traps. The message is loud and clear: the time for reform is now! If you haven’t already you can still participate – send your Representative and Senators a Valentine’s Day email.

Let’s keep the pressure on and the discussion going. Do you have a credit card horror st...

Mortgage Crisis Spreads Past Subprime Loans

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:54:54 -0500

By VIKAS BAJAJ and LOUISE STORY

Published: February 12, 2008

The credit crisis is no longer just a subprime mortgage problem.

As home prices fall and banks tighten lending standards, people with good, or prime, credit...

Strange Bedfellows or How I stopped worrying and learned to love Wal-Mart (not!)

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:28:52 -0500

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My hometown has yet to receive a Wal-Mart, so shopping at one is still kind of exotic to me. I never would have thought I could buy underwear, motor oil, frozen shrimp and a crossbow all in one place. Brooklyn, far behind on the mega-store curve but catching up quickly, still has none. In northeastern Pennsylvania, where my folks bought a house a few years ago, there is the first and only Wal-Mart I have ever visited.

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. <...

Shopping = Global Warming

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:28:57 -0500
It has only recently become clear to me just how big a problem my shopping habit was. I think I must be have been really stupid, slow, or crazy ......because I didn't get it..... until just 7 years ago. (In spite of the fact that I have complained about the damage to the environment for 20 + years.) It suddenly dawned on me! .........I am the problem! .............My children are the problem! My nation is the problem! We are the cause and effects of global warming. We are the root of all evil, because we have bought into ( excuse the pun) American consumerism. 1 + 1 = 2................

Zip Code 'Redlining': A Sweeping View of Risk

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:22:22 -0500

Will your zip code keep the American Dream out of your reach? Check out this article from WashingtonPost.com

Zip Code 'Redlining': A Sweeping View of Risk

By Kenneth R. Harney

Saturday, February 2, 2008; Page F01

Critics call it the new redlining: Many of the country's largest mortgage lenders are imposing loan restrictions in entire counties or Zip codes that they...

Principles of Fair Lending

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:24:30 -0500

Reinforcing the regulatory apparatus of the nation’s economy that has collapsed under this administration is indeed one of the most important challenges facing us today (“After the Fed,” editorial, Jan. 31).

What won’t work is the typical patchwork approach to reform predatory lending. If Congress and presidential candidates want to truly make a difference for borrowers, they need a comprehensive approach to regulation.

A set of principles of fair lending, agreed to by Americans for Fairness in Lending, a coalition of national consumer grou...

Daily Show on Subprime Loans

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:08:44 -0500

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...

Internship Opportunity - Tour Liaisons

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:48:01 -0500

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

The Otesha Project is seeking 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 objectives, keep teams on schedul...

Lenders Who Sold and Left

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:11:53 -0500

By GRETCHEN MORGENSON Published: February 3, 2008

THE Federal Bureau of Investigation said last week that it had opened criminal investigations into 14 companies that played a part in the mortgage boom and bust. While it did not identify the companies on its dance card, the F.B.I. said they included mortgage brokers, lenders, and the Wall Street banks that packaged and sold the securities. Investigators are looking for accounting fraud and possible insider trading at the companies, an F.B.I. spokesman said.

The burea...

Social Change and Food

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:08:15 -0500

AN UNPOPULAR VIEW OF SOCIAL CHANGE

Food just might be the most powerful medium of social change, although most people don’t see it that way. In the 20th Century, with the development of concentrated feeding operations (CAFOS, or factory farms) the way human animals thought of nonhuman animals took a bit of a turn. Though we used nonhuman animals for virtually whatever purpose we wanted before then, the Industrial Revolution led to the dominance, control, exploitation, mutilation and slaughter of nonhuman animals as an industry<...

Send a "Valentine's Day" postcard to Congress: Kiss Credit Card Abuses Goodbye!

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:34:41 -0500

Each year credit card companies sap billions of dollars from consumers’ wallets in excessive fees, unexpected rate hikes and other unfair practices. AFFIL is partnering with Consumers Union in asking folks to take a moment to tell Congress to protect you, not the big credit card companies!

Just go to www.CreditCardReform.org and with one click youâ€™ll send a real post card to each of your representatives this Valentine’s Day. Consumers Union will hand deliver postcards in your name to your Representative and Senators on February 14th.

AFFIL and James Scurlock talk to Wall Street!

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:11:50 -0500

On January 29, AFFIL members and Maxed Out director James Scurlock hit Wall Street to talk to bankers about Maxed Out, the subprime mortgage crisis and its effect on our economy. The conversations were surprising – even bankers agreed that we need regulation to keep the economy on track and prevent predatory lending.

After the Fed

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:34:50 -0500

January 31, 2008 EDITORIAL After the Fed

Whether or not the Federal Reserveâ€™s recent dramatic interest rate cuts are the right medicine for todayâ€™s stalling economy â€” and the jury is very much out on that â€” it is clear that the Fed has used up a big chunk of its recession-fighting ammunition in a very short span of time. In just over a week, it has slashed its benchmark interest rate by a total of 1.25 percentage points, to 3 percent. That doesnâ€™t leave a lot of room to cut further without opening the door to a potentially nasty upsurge in pr...

Crashing the Subprime Party

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:46:58 -0500

Wall Street strikes again! Putting corporate interest before good judgment and consumer protection has to be stopped! Check out this article from Slate by Nicholas Bagley: Crashing the Subprime Party How the feds stopped the states from averting the lending mess.

’...Some of the biggest players in the secondary mortgage market are national banks, and the states’ efforts to curb predatory lending clashed with the banks’ fervent desire to keep the market in subprime loans rolling. And so the national banks turned to the Treasury Department’s Office of th...

Killer Credit

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:30:42 -0500

When is enough enough? This is a great article by Adam Doster that sheds some light on the plastic hell Americans are living in. It’s time to start fighting back!

Killer Credit Attack of the $915 billion consumer debt monster By Adam Doster

Candace Angus is not one to break the rules. When she served on the Chicago police force for 25 years, it was her duty to maintain order. And as a longtime credit card user, she was never late on a payment and never in debt. So when she found interest on her Capital One balance considerably higher than she anticipated, she wa...

Cellphones are the new cigarettes â€“ redux (Cellphones are the new TV)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:24:41 -0500

Had to add a little something to an earlier post. Was watching Ken Auletta on C. Rose the other night discussing his experiences at the Google Campus for an article he wrote for the New Yorker (?). The topic quickly shifted to cellphones and the big question was â€“ Will advertising work on cellphones? My answer is another question â€“ WHEN will advertising work on cellphones? Certainly the producers and advertisers will find a way. Television was and remains the greatest accomplishment for the advertising industry â€“ in fact it really created the ad in...

Fashion/Compassion - Ad/dressing the soul

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:31:23 -0500

For a few years I was an creative executive at Donna Karan International. Since then I have become acutely concerned with the role of the fashion and design industries in our world today. The following is a reflection on some of those issues”

Fashion is all about innovation. The history of fashion is the history of change, and over time the cycle has accelerated. Yearly changes have become seasonal and within each season are now three or four deliveries, bringing the impetus for wardrobe renewals to every few weeks. Granted it is only the most fashion obsessed and fi...

MLK DAY

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:15:22 -0500

In honor of Martin Luther King Junior the Metropolitan Museum of Art was open today, on a Monday when it is usually closed. It was a rare treat. Despite the fact that some big swaths of the museum were closed, Asian Art, the American Wing, numerous individual galleries among them, the museum was well attended but not crowded. The museum is still pay what you wish, they will still gladly check your coat, and the cafeteria is actually one of the better places of its kind to eat on the Upper East Side. It is very close to being another one of the great public institutions that make our...

Libraries

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:40:43 -0500

Libraries are the mark of a civilized society. They are an example of the best that we can do. Free, public, uncensored – they must be all these things if they are truly to live up to their promise and their purpose. They are a mark of public trust, in our confidence in ourselves to pursue knowledge and understanding, in our committment to self-determination. I was raised to believe that these were American ideals. That we needn’t fear ourselves, that we needn’t fear our minds being led astray by ideas, that our minds would be led back to themselves, to the best o...

Cellphones are the new cigarettes

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:39:10 -0500

They don’t want to make a cellphone that lasts, and they don’t want it to be just a phone. It can’t simply serve a purpose, it has to create a need. It has to enter our lives from moment to moment, to reorganize our lives according to what it needs, what its object is. Unnecessary functions: games, pictures, text messages are new ways to parcel out time, new things that need to be checked and checked again. We live in a world of updates. A restless world never content to have what is has. No moment then is complete without checking in, confirming, updating, reply...

Nonviolence and Food

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:09:49 -0500

AN UNPOPULAR VIEW OF NONVIOLENCE

If I were to ask you to define nonviolence, what would you say? The traditional macro-type answer would have something to do with peaceful resistance to a government. And either you believe in passive resistance or you think that sometimes force of some kind is necessary; sometimes violence is necessary.

Now what about nonviolence on a micro level—on an individual level. What does nonviolence mean in your daily life? More specifically, do you ever think of your eating habits as ha...

Solar Power Plants

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:27:43 -0500

In this modern era, our lives revolve around newer and newer technology. With the development of newer technology the things that we use everyday to carry out the functions of our daily lives now required more sources energy than ever before. That gas powered snow blower used to clear driveways in the winter replaced that hand powered shovel in the corner of the garage.

The biggest problem that comes from using these modern devices is the energy consumption of it. There is only a limited amount of resources available on the earth that can provide energy. One of the biggest prod...

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.

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New comment! - Urban Harvesting - Collect And Distribute Local Foods

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:41:13 -0500

I found a place doing exactly what you describe. Itâ€™s called City Harvest in NYC. See http://cityharvest.org/ If you look at what they accept it is limited but theyâ€™ll still receive some prepared foods. A long time ago, I worked at a deli in San Diego and we always brought home the old bake goods and distributed to all my poor college neighbors.

New comment! - Urban Harvesting - Collect And Distribute Local Foods

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:01:04 -0500

This is a great idea… and it corresponds to one that I wish could have been enacted when I lived in Key West, where the good weather draws many homeless and low-income folks, but where the economy drags on those with no- or ~~limited~~ resources. It seemed such a waste to have three local deli’s and many local restaurants just throw away food every day… pounds and pounds of good healthy meat, produce, and salads! I asked some of these places if they would be willing to distribute some of their leftovers and I was told that it was “illegal” for them ...

Otesha launches 2008 Cycling and Performing Tours

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:22:59 -0500

The Otesha Project has announced the routes for the 2008 Otesha Cycling and Performing Tours (Check out: www.otesha.ca/bike+tours/index.en.html). Applications are now being accepted for seven regional tours throughout Canada that will take more than 120 inspiring young change-makers on the journey of a lifetime. You could be one of them!

Tour members will share an incredible experience as they live as a mobile and sustainable community for two months. They will cycle from performance to performance, braving the elements, connecting with communities along the route, and explorin...

Opportunity for Webmasters and Bloggers! FREE USE OF WEBSITES

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:32:14 -0500

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

My gift to you this season are some of the valuable Sustainability-related domains I’ve collected over the years.

All I ask in return is that you design a really cool site that gets people involved, spreads the Sustainability Symbol around the world and brings attention to at least one of the Climate Change related projects we’re working on (Like “STOP the GLOFs”) The rest will be up to you.

Almost one year ago we introduced the 3 Finger Sustainability Symbol (Peace Plus One) to the HK Environ...

Help us create a new space

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:25:26 -0500

In the new year, our organisation, Public Achievement are moving into new offices in Belfast’s City Centre – actually in the new ‘Cathedral Arts Quarter’ up-and-coming funky part of town. We are moving because our existing building is in a terrible state and the owner won’t get it fixed, but we are excited about the move.

Now what we are getting is just over 1500 square feet divided into two office spaces (600 and 900 square feet). The smaller part will be used as a meeting/workshop/studio space and includes an extremely basic ‘kitchen̵...

New comment! - Urban Harvesting - Collect And Distribute Local Foods

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:04:09 -0500

Thanks for your great response. Wow!

New comment! - Urban Harvesting - Collect And Distribute Local Foods

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:20:21 -0500

We are in Long Beach California, our organization is providing vertical gardens to the poor that can be placed on a small patio or even a door stoop. The gardens can produce tomatoes, beans, peas, strawberries, and herbs. They take little space and can provide fresh produce for families who live in communities where grocery stores are seldom located close by. By providing neighbors with different plants they are able to share their abundance by swapping pound for pound. The addition of sheets of aluminum and some plastic coverings can also turn these gardens into winter hothouses in som...

Alliance Accepted! - Americans for Fairness in Lending

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:41:42 -0500

New comment! - Urban Harvesting - Collect And Distribute Local Foods

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:12:05 -0500

I am genuinely enthusiastic about your idea, your purpose. There is too much food going to waste, with too many hungry adults and children in this country going hungry—not to mention the millions of refugees beset by every snare possible…lack of medical care & attention, need for food products, need for more hands to assist them in rebuilding their homes, their lives. Whether it was an Earthquake, a Wildfire, a Flood, Hurricane, Tornado, Cyclone, or seiges of drought or too much rain. We can learn to work with NATURE in order for all of us to ...

Ally Request - watamelon

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:46:32 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Thienan Nguyen

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:54:43 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Matthew Aquilone

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:08:38 -0500

Ally Request - Eli Hruska

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:45:09 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Bayard Rustin S.J.C.

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 07:57:59 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Alexander Eberts

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:10:00 -0500

Ally Request - Alexander Eberts

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:44:44 -0500

Ally Request - Jon Wonnell

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:44:38 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Zachary McBride

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:22:02 -0500

Ally Request - Zachary McBride

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:44:34 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Kassandra Braun

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:58:41 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Bill Curtin

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:36:38 -0500

Ally Request - valerie

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:44:20 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - valerie

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:31:46 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Sarah

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:38:02 -0500

Ally Request - xenos02

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:44:10 -0500

Ally Request - xenos02

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:44:09 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Sarah Guldenbrein

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:00:36 -0500

Ally Request - Joel el profeta

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:43:27 -0500

Ally Request - Joel el profeta

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:43:27 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - David Niehoff

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:19:10 -0500

Ally Request - Kristi Currans

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:43:17 -0500

Ally Request - Kristi Currans

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:43:17 -0500

Ally Request - JT

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:43:13 -0500

Ally Request - Veronica

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:42:49 -0500

Ally Request - Amy

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:42:45 -0500

Ally Request - Amy

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:42:44 -0500

Ally Request - Dhathri Chunduru

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:42:38 -0500

Ally Request - Aldrea

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:42:33 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Students for Peace

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:19:25 -0500

Ally Request - Molly

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:42:22 -0500

Ally Request - Melanie Rose

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:42:16 -0500

Ally Request - Melanie Rose

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:42:16 -0500

Ally Request - Kristi

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:42:11 -0500

Ally Request - Rubab

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:42:05 -0500

Ally Request - Charles Seely

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:41:59 -0500

Ally Request - Charles Seely

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:41:59 -0500

Ally Request - Jordan Fischler

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:41:53 -0500

Ally Request - James Golick

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:41:47 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Biekarck

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:16:16 -0500

Ally Request - amphibia

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:41:19 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Brian Fisher

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:44:40 -0500

Ally Request - Mark Moroknek

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:41:10 -0500

Ally Request - Alicia Pimental

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:41:07 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Rikki

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:59:22 -0500

Ally Request - JTH

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:41:02 -0500

Ally Request - vicki

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:27:04 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Zach Stein

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:35:41 -0500

Ally Request - Michael Sherry

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:26:53 -0500

Ally Request - Brian

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:26:51 -0500

Ally Request - Jonathan Black

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:26:48 -0500

Ally Request - Cesar E. Chavez Service Club

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:26:44 -0500

Ally Request - Aventure Ecotourisme QuÃ©bec

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:26:41 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Sam Arons

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:35:47 -0500

Ally Request - Daoirv

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:26:37 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Jennifer McRae

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:32:23 -0500

Ally Request - lezlee

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:25:15 -0500

Ally Request - josidridolfo

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:25:10 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Steer Clean

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:00:29 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - VijayPamarathi

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:51:16 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Alisa

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:03:23 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Chris Griffith

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:41:35 -0500

Ally Request - Steven Lam

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:24:39 -0500

Ally Request - West Glen Communications

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:24:22 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - disillusionment_junkie

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:53:12 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Patrick Scott

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:54:18 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - doug kerswell

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:21:29 -0500

Ally Request - Julius Permaculturist

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:23:36 -0500

Ally Request - Mike Lee

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:23:31 -0500

Ally Request - Mike Lee

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:23:30 -0500

Ally Request - Scott S

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:23:26 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - alex budman

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:07:11 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Enrique Garcia

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:45:13 -0500

Ally Request - Silona

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:23:12 -0500

Ally Request - Dave

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:22:37 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - The Otesha Project

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:04:35 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - iDOCs

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:51:41 -0500

Ally Request - hmm214

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:22:24 -0500

Ally Request - Courtney

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:22:20 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Sentience

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:03:15 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Mary Martin

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:47:35 -0500

Ally Request - thomas babysteps

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:21:43 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Patricia

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:13:01 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Meredith Gossland

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:09:00 -0500

Ally Request - Eleanor Bell

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:21:23 -0500

Ally Request - Brett Thalmann

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:21:18 -0500

Ally Request - Kathy

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:21:14 -0500

Ally Request - Daniel Drouet

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:21:09 -0500

Ally Request - Jaime

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:21:04 -0500

Ally Request - Dr GoogleField

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:20:20 -0500

Ally Request - mjjaz

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:20:15 -0500

Ally Request - Vascabruta

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:20:10 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Christina

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:14:29 -0500

Ally Request - Adam Robertson

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:20:00 -0500

Ally Request - Adam Robertson

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:20:00 -0500

Ally Request - Holden Lee

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:19:56 -0500

Ally Request - pete

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:19:51 -0500

Ally Request - Jane

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:19:46 -0500

Ally Request - kage

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:19:40 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Technology For People Group Inc.

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:35:33 -0500

Ally Request - Jason Reitz

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:19:08 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Benjamin Ackerman

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:33:12 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - DragonTHINK

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:51:58 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Philip McMaster

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:24:35 -0500

Ally Request - Jeff Wiedner

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:17:53 -0500

Ally Request - Michel Zampa

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:17:47 -0500

Ally Request - Ben Bergman

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:17:18 -0500

Ally Request - Joe Truck

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:17:13 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Steve Collins

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:44:38 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - deb

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:28:13 -0500

Ally Request - Laine

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:16:59 -0500

Ally Request - veronica

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:16:52 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Marcus

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:42:00 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Shelley

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:25:20 -0500

Ally Request - Jenny

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:16:37 -0500

Ally Request - Lili Vieira de Carvalho

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:16:29 -0500

Ally Request - Danielle

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:15:58 -0500

Ally Request - Andrew Morgan

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:15:50 -0500

Ally Request - Do Something

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:15:40 -0500

Ally Request - Stephen Apkon

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:15:36 -0500

Ally Request - Stephen Apkon

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:15:36 -0500

Ally Request - meeker192

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:15:30 -0500

Ally Request - Travis

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:15:25 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Scott S

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:30:51 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Bryan Mahoney

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:36:42 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Will

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:07:07 -0500

Echoing Green Fellowship

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:45:41 -0400

What is the EG Fellowship?

Through our two-year Echoing Green Fellowship program, we provide start-up capital and technical assistance to help new leaders launch their organizations and build capacity. We offer:

â€¢ A grant of up to $90,000, paid in four equal installments over two years â€¢ A health insurance stipend â€¢ Conferences led by organizational development experts â€¢ Access to technical support and pro bono partnerships to help grow your organization â€¢ A community of like-minded social entrepreneurs and public service leaders

W...

Facilitator - Board of Directors

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:23:48 -0400

Hi friends: Well, the BC3 has FINALLY been born! This is the name I have been waiting to find, which serves to capture the essence of what my partners and I want to do, well, essentially with the rest of our lives. We always knew we wanted to start a social enterprise (co-operative) but we didn’t know how. Some of you who may be reading my blogs know that this is something I’m working on right now, along with these individuals.

I am looking for some help making this name “legal” in British Columbia, Can...

Are you a great designer, or translator?

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:15:45 -0400

We are in the process of translating the word/concepts/phrase of

1. SOCIETY

2. ENVIRONMENT

3. ECONOMY

... into the languages of the world, and adapting the different ways of writing to the three fingered hand symbol.

You can see a sample of the Sustainability Symbol in Chinese script on this message.

Your name will be forever associated with the chosen modification of the symbol that represents “Society, Environment, Economy” in your lingui...

Rethos.com - kemper's Global Feed

Common Credit Card Tricks & Traps

Where does your candidate stand on predatory lending?

William McDonough at Bioneers 2000

Paul Hawken (if you need a little inspiration)

Cage Free Eggs: Behind the Myth

Sustainable Energy Summit: The Ball is Rollin'

Common Good Finance's Progress

Common Good Banks

Senators Caught in Mortgage Fallout

Ally Request - Matthew Gassen

Ally Request - The Mountain Fund

Alliance Accepted! - David Barrie

New comment! - Urban Harvesting - Collect And Distribute Local Foods

Slaves to the cult of de-clutter

A moral dog's breakfast

Are foodies killing us?

Animals and Culture, Part Deux

Excellent Video on Earth Day TV

Get Real - Towards A Compassionate Medical Marijuana Policy

Tell the Senate to Stop Foreclosures!

Jim Campen on Fox Business

Animals and Culture

Success! 120,000 Valentines going to Congress

Mortgage Crisis Spreads Past Subprime Loans

Strange Bedfellows or How I stopped worrying and learned to love Wal-Mart (not!)

Natural Building Internship

Shopping = Global Warming

Zip Code 'Redlining': A Sweeping View of Risk

Principles of Fair Lending

Daily Show on Subprime Loans

Internship Opportunity - Tour Liaisons

Internship Opportunity - Tour Liaisons

Lenders Who Sold and Left

Social Change and Food

Send a "Valentine's Day" postcard to Congress: Kiss Credit Card Abuses Goodbye!

AFFIL and James Scurlock talk to Wall Street!

After the Fed

Crashing the Subprime Party

Killer Credit

Cellphones are the new cigarettes â€“ redux (Cellphones are the new TV)

Fashion/Compassion - Ad/dressing the soul

MLK DAY

Libraries

Cellphones are the new cigarettes

Nonviolence and Food

Solar Power Plants

Want to coach young social entrepreneurs?

Get $1,000 for your Socially Innovative Idea

New comment! - Urban Harvesting - Collect And Distribute Local Foods

New comment! - Urban Harvesting - Collect And Distribute Local Foods

Otesha launches 2008 Cycling and Performing Tours

Opportunity for Webmasters and Bloggers! FREE USE OF WEBSITES

Help us create a new space

New comment! - Urban Harvesting - Collect And Distribute Local Foods

New comment! - Urban Harvesting - Collect And Distribute Local Foods

Alliance Accepted! - Americans for Fairness in Lending

New comment! - Urban Harvesting - Collect And Distribute Local Foods

Ally Request - watamelon

Alliance Accepted! - Thienan Nguyen

Alliance Accepted! - Matthew Aquilone

Ally Request - Eli Hruska

Alliance Accepted! - Bayard Rustin S.J.C.

Alliance Accepted! - Alexander Eberts

Ally Request - Alexander Eberts

Ally Request - Jon Wonnell

Alliance Accepted! - Zachary McBride

Ally Request - Zachary McBride

Alliance Accepted! - Kassandra Braun

Alliance Accepted! - Bill Curtin

Ally Request - valerie

Alliance Accepted! - valerie

Alliance Accepted! - Sarah

Ally Request - xenos02

Ally Request - xenos02

Alliance Accepted! - Sarah Guldenbrein

Ally Request - Joel el profeta

Ally Request - Joel el profeta

Alliance Accepted! - David Niehoff

Ally Request - Kristi Currans