Be A Biographer: Crowdsourced Design Giving Hope to Sex Trade Survivors
Initiated by human-rights organization The Blind Project, Be A Biographer calls on people with design skills to help tell the stories of the survivors of the multi-billion dollar commercial sex trade, an industry…
Change Connections — Crowdsourcing Social Innovation
This past week, Nokia and The Feast launched a very interesting collaborative project called Change Connections. The goal of the project is “to contribute to strengthening innovation ecosystems and our understanding of the…
Who wants a garden at City Hall?
Public Gardens seem to be on everyone’s mind since Michelle Obama planted her organic garden at The White House. The idea, however, may not have been hers. TheWhoFarm (The White House Organic Farm…
Jamie’s Food Revolution
“I wish for your help to create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.” I find it hard…
Slow Money: Sustainable Investing
The speed at which stock exchanges and money markets move these days is astonishing; trillions of dollars are zipping around the world each day, faster than any of us can truly fathom. The…
Good Gifts
The holidays are all about gathering with loved ones to enjoy a bountiful meal. Many of our most cherished memories evolve around food. But, we all tend to cook too much and a…
NYC Food Charter
Problems associated with obesity have reached epidemic proportions in the United States, and at such an alarming pace that the Surgeon General has urged communities to address the problems through a formal ‘call…
Charter for Compassion
I have always believed that just being nice gets you places way better than sharp elbows and tongues do. Niceness has long been considered a quality too soft for our dog-eat-dog society, but…
Take action for 350
According to leading climate scientists such as James Hansen of NASA, 350 parts per million is considered to be the highest CO2 level the planet can safely sustain. The current levels are known…
What’s your Foodprint?
Globally, an estimated one-third of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are from our food system and land use changes, which include GHGs emitted to grow, process, package, transport, store and dispose our food….
10:10: Cut your emissions by 10% in 2010
We have all asked, or been asked to answer, that elusive question. “What can I do about climate change?” Although it’s easy to feel powerless beside large corporations and nations that seem hellbent…
Eating-in for Healthy School Lunches
You can raise your kids on the most conscious diet of local, farm-fresh, organic food, and find that once they start school, all your efforts are instantly undercut. Unless you happen to live…
Project M: Pizza Farm
Pick a significant cause, then conceive and create a single design project that will be of lasting value in a rural community. That was the brief given to the group of nine young…
May 14, 2012
Harmless Harvest — @Emily- Thank you! We are working on an option for ordering our coconut water online, just want to make sure...
May 11, 2012
Cheryl — I have and the flu all day today tried to drink water but could keep itching down. I asked...
May 9, 2012
emily — i just discovered your raw and organic coconut water and I am blown away by how good it tastes and...
May 9, 2012
Marilyn Hartman — Tried Noosa for the first time and I am hooked. It is the best yoghurt I have ever eaten....
May 5, 2012
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