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Environmental Activists Expose Dangers of E-Waste

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:48:26 -0500

November 14, 2008, Delhi, India: In the streets of Mustaffabad, a poor quarter of Delhi, children in sandals sit on top of piles of broken glass and twisted metal, smashing computer monitors. Men with blowtorches melt circuit boards, while nearby, women sort and scrub other boards with diluted acid. Charred fiberglass and copper dust litter the ground.

This is the world of the electronic waste (e-waste) recyclers, who make a living by tearing apart the toxic remains of old home computers, cell phones and printer cartridges from the United States and other coun...

Grats to ya boy

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:59:23 -0500

Last night around 8pm I was at a house party here in Oakland getting ready for my band’s set when somebody across the room shouted out “Obama won! he did it!” and the whole room broke out in cheers and clapping. I pulled out my cellphone and sent a text message to my friend Labrie (who’s been pulling hard for an Obama victory and recorded a couple songs supporting him and his candidacy) saying “Grats to ya boy” and went back to working on getting our sound set up. Later that night as we closed o...

Bible Illuminated's The Book New Testament

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:58:55 -0400

Forget heavy leather-bound volumes - this New Testament brings an entirely new look to the table.

Even the format of Illuminated World's New Testament is a vast departure from any version of the Bible that readers are familiar with. It doesn't look like a book, but instead looks like a high-end magazine, complete with glossy pages and illustrated with contemporary photographs.

Why These Pictures and Highlighted Passages?

The layout is a departure from tradition, but the text itself is not. The New Testament uses the sta...

Ally Request - Len Hulsbos

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:07:49 -0400

Top Small Workplaces of 2008

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:14:12 -0400

Top Small Workplaces 2008

Creating great workplaces has never been more important for small businesses. Nor more difficult. Here are 15 companies that do it well.

By Kelly K. Spors

It's never been harder to create a great workplace. With all the turbulence in the economy, business owners are spending more time trying to boost sales and cut costs than fretting about the well-being of their employees.

But creating a rewarding work environ...

Blogging Connects Women Across the World

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:56:54 -0400

Advocacy Project (AP) have launched a blog group to connect professional women in the Washington area with young American women volunteering for human rights overseas.

This innovative use of information technology was developed during the summer, when eight Zonta members in Washington decided to follow the blogs of graduate students serving as AP Peace Fellows in Serbia, Kosovo, Uganda, Jordan, El Salvador, Nepal and Kenya.

"This is a fantastic program," said Heather Dolstra, a Zonta member and Washington travel agen...

Exercising our franchise

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:42:07 -0400

Advanced polling for our federal elections is already underway and it seems, at least by the polls, that the incumbent government might just sneak past with a victory. Without taking sides, I think the victory would probably have more to do with a lack of serious options rather then the governance of the 'defending champions'.

A Canada Election study indicates that almost the entire decline (~10%) in voter turnout over the last 15 years is due to the 18-24 age group. This is unalarming, though, and the trend has been seen in many countries across the gl...

The Bloc Party

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:09:58 -0400

I fondly remember the days when all we worried about was climate change! Watching Paulson, Obama, McCain, Bush, the Dow Jones and everything else makes social change seem like a

Positively Negative Syndrome

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:01:54 -0400

..Is what a lot of us experience on a regular basis, especially when it comes to professional decisions. Personally, it seems to be that the second or third thoughts regarding a particular decision seem to be negatively inclined. It is often a case of one foot in the positive and the other in the negative territory! This slip is called Positively Negative by the author of the article whose link is attached below. I can partially relate to that.

Make change today. The Young People For (YP4) fellowship is a leadership development program focusing on identifying, engaging and empowering young progressive leaders.

Santropol Roulant is an award-winning community organization founded and run by young people in Montreal. We bring people together across generations and cultures through an innovative approach to meals-on-wheels, and by engaging youth to take an active role in their community. Santropol Roulant uses food as a vehicle to create trust and build bridges between individuals in a city where isolation among the elderly is the highest in Canada.

Ideology 101 in 2008

Political thought in the United States can't just be divided into two camps — us vs. them, left vs. right, progressive vs. conservative — it's much more complicated than that. There are actually a variety of progressive viewpoints on the economy, fo...

Alliance Accepted! - Young People For (YP4)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:59:14 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Paul Smyth

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:06:41 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Haley Elkins

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:42:58 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Richard Treadwell

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:34:32 -0400

Ally Request - Rachel

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:13:04 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Liohn Sherer

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:48:54 -0400

Ally Request - Stephen Kooshian

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:22:58 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - lynx

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:01:06 -0400

Ally Request - YouthNoise

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:02:19 -0400

Ally Request - Will

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:02:04 -0400

Ally Request - Theresa

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:01:48 -0400

Ally Request - Sonya Shalnikov

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:01:29 -0400

Ally Request - SMG

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:01:13 -0400

Ally Request - Shannon Cherry

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:00:51 -0400

Ally Request - Sarah Byrnes

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:00:32 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Rainforest Alliance

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:29:29 -0400

Ally Request - Patricia Omoqui

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:59:42 -0400

Ally Request - Nelly Bassily

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:59:22 -0400

Ally Request - Nathan Rothstein

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:58:51 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Metta

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:55:14 -0400

Ally Request - Marcus

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:58:09 -0400

Ally Request - Lila Films Inc

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:57:52 -0400

Ally Request - Laura

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:55:12 -0400

Ally Request - John Powers

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:54:54 -0400

Ally Request - Hava Gurevich

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:54:16 -0400

Ally Request - Hardcastle

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:53:59 -0400

Ally Request - Cornel West

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:53:36 -0400

Ally Request - Christina

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:53:14 -0400

Ally Request - Chris Dodd

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:52:53 -0400

Ally Request - Bryan Moats

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:52:16 -0400

Ally Request - Book Bank Foundation

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:51:56 -0400

Ally Request - Bari George

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:51:40 -0400

Ally Request - Association to Benefit Children

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:51:17 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Angie

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:36:00 -0400

Ally Request - Alice McMahon White

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:47:51 -0400

Ally Request - Richard Jones

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:45:02 -0400

Ally Request - Rica

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:44:36 -0400

Ally Request - Progresswear

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:44:13 -0400

Ally Request - Michael Poku

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:43:38 -0400

Ally Request - Michael Oppenheimer

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:43:16 -0400

Ally Request - Michael Johnson-Chase

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:42:52 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Matthew Aquilone

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:27:52 -0400

Ally Request - Kristen Fields

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:42:06 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - jill ettinger

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:58:03 -0400

Ally Request - Jesse Smale

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:41:11 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Jason Boyer

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:57:22 -0400

Ally Request - Frank Miller

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:40:26 -0400

Ally Request - Diane Gordon

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:39:49 -0400

Ally Request - Deacon Dorsey

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:39:24 -0400

Ally Request - Christopher Fox

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:38:53 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Bill Landis

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:30:27 -0400

Ally Request - Balthazar

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:34:25 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Andrew Smentkowski

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:48:28 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Jennifer McRae

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:42:07 -0400

Ally Request - Elias Feghali

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:32:55 -0400

Ally Request - Christine

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:32:36 -0400

Ally Request - Ending Urban Poverty

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:32:17 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Fernando

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:47:17 -0400

Ally Request - Lisa-Marie Cashman

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:29:59 -0400

Ally Request - Allen S.

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:29:26 -0400

Ally Request - Alex

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:28:53 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Ian Wooden

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:08:29 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Americans for Fairness in Lending

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:21:16 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Chris Advansun

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:21:55 -0400

Ally Request - kiadso

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:18:52 -0400

Ally Request - Nour

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:18:34 -0400

Ally Request - DanRose

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:17:15 -0400

Ally Request - Paul

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:14:34 -0400

Ally Request - JAM

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:12:59 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Adeel A. Khan

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:53:42 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Li Li Parsons

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:45:59 -0400

Easy Ways You Can Help Conserve Rainforests

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:54:33 -0400

1Choose foods grown on farms certified by the Rainforest Alliance

Buy coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolate, bananas, orange juice, g...

Communications and Network Associate

Tue, 06 May 2008 14:24:56 -0400

People For the American Way Foundation conducts research, legal, and education work on behalf of First Amendment freedoms and democratic values; monitors, exposes, and challenges the Religious Right movement and its political allies; identifies, trains, and supports the next generation of progressive leaders through its Young People For youth leadership programs and its Young Elected Officials Network; and carries out nonpartisan voter education, registration, civic participation, and election protection activities.

Young People For (YP4) is a youth-driven and youth-led pr...

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. <...

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...

Think Democracy's Sexy? Volunteer with AisB!

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:02:17 -0500

As always, if you’re interested in volunteering, get in touch. We need people who can:
- graphic design - research, blog, and write - web design - do some mindless data entry (if you’re in the mood for some tedium, but we try to keep it to a minimum!) - develop website content - translate (English – French) - help out at events (hand out surveys, talk up Apathy, take pictures, sell gear) and a plethora of other things.

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.

Submit an application for the chance to win:

Up to $1,000 in start-up funding
Web space on consciouslifestyle.org
Monthly skill-building workshops
Personalized support
Access to a network of social entrepreneurs

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...