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Balancing People, Profit & Planet: An Interview with Reem Rahim of Numi Tea

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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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Brahm Ahmadi, People's Grocery, Podcast Transcript

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The primary need, obviously, in our community, West Oakland, is a lack of access to healthy and affordable foods. We do a garden nutrition program at our two school sites and at the YMCA site, which is basically for children, at these sites, teaching them about gardening and about nutrition.

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Big Vision Podcast: Steve Williams from POWER

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SOUL is located here in the Bay area, in Oakland. If you like the music, it is from Kenya Masala's "Mango Delight" and you can learn more about Kenya's work and his music by going to sourceconsultinggroup.com. That's one. You can also find transcripts of past interviews on that blog as well.

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Ask Britt: How can I combine the creative arts with social impact?

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Art in Action provides a supportive, positive place for young leaders to cultivate leadership through dance, theater, music, spoken word/poetry, painting, storytelling, and media arts." By bringing people together through music and art it is our goal to highlight the similarities and celebrate the diversity of all of the world’s inhabitants."

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AAM 2010 Recap: Slides, Surprises, and a Banjo

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This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. Kathleen showed lots of participatory elements in the redesigned Oakland Museum of California. You can view and download all the slides here.

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Alli Chagi-Starr, Art in Action/Ella Baker Center, Podcast Interview Transcription

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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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