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DECEMBER 12, 2006

You can listen to my interview with Ingrid on the Big Vision Podcast , or read a transcript here. Britt: For people who aren't familiar with green rooftops, what is a green roof? But literally they're green because it's a garden on a roof. Britt: What are some of the benefits of a green roof?

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

A big thanks to everyone who listens to the program, and reads the interview transcripts here on Have Fun * Do Good. I've listed all of the interviews below with links to the audio and the transcripts. Please note that because the interviews take place over three years, some people's work has changed.

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JANUARY 25, 2007

Have you ever thought about starting a green cafe? When the WorldChanging SF bloggers had their first face-to-face meeting there, I asked Chris if he would do an e-interview with me about how he started the cafe, what makes it green and how other people can start their own green cafes. Create a business plan.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I'm deeply saddened by the resignation of Van Jones from his position as Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council for Environmental Quality. So, for inspiration I encourage you to listen to an interview I did with Van in April 2007 for the Big Vision Podcast online, or on iTunes.

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JANUARY 6, 2010

Although I've been a sponsor of a "sister" for the past two years, and am familiar with the organization's work, to prepare for the interview I read her riveting memoir, Between Two Worlds. You can read a transcript of my interview with Zainab Salbi here. You can read a transcript of my interview with Lisa Witter here.

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AUGUST 9, 2007

I told the conference co-founders, a husband and wife literary agent team, Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen , that I'd help to spread the word about the conference so I interviewed Elizabeth for the Big Vision Podcast. I mean, San Francisco is now a green city, and that's right from the heart of Mayor Newsom. It's been very fast.

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JULY 25, 2017

I was asked to facilitate a small group in a participatory session called “ Digital Forum ,” designed for peer sharing by Marco Kuntz and Mike Johnson. The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Alan Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day.

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JANUARY 26, 2011

Humberto Kam, Senior Manager of Online Communications for the Monterey Bay Aquarium, was kind enough sit down for an interview recently. It’s won awards from Treehugger.com as the “Best of Green in Food and Health” and is cited regularly in mainstream and new media as a trusted source for sustainable seafood information.

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

Regular readers and Big Vision Podcast listeners might remember that I interviewed Numi Tea Co-Founder, Reem Rahim, for the Big Vision Podcast in January 2007. Our second tea tasting stop was the Numi Tea Garden in Oakland. The hubs had a super yummy darjeeling tea. Happy stacationing! staycation tea local vacation.

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MARCH 20, 2007

Last month I posted an e-interview with Caitlin Cohen, the US coordinator and co-founder of the Sigida Keneyali Project , a community-run clinic in Sikoro for 28,000 people. For your donation to qualify as part of the Challenge, you must give before March 21, 2007. It is a project of the start-up NGO, Mali Health Organizing Project.

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JULY 2, 2008

At the end of December 2007, I posted about creating activist resolutions for the New Year based on Latoya Peterson's activist resolutions post on Racialicious. Interviewed Janessa Goldbeck of the Genocide Intervention Network. Interview more activists/visionaries of color for the Big Vision Podcast. My resolutions were to: 1.

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AUGUST 15, 2007

When I checked this morning, 7 more people had contributed to her loan request ( Rick , Matthew , the 2007 Pryor Class , Anish , Mark and Emily ). Green Girl at Perry Family Fun recently loaned $25 to Gregorio Castillo, who will use the loan to buy a cow to restart his dairy and fuel his business as a farmer.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2007

You have to take action either by taking a class, doing an informational interview, volunteering, interning, going to an event, or taking a job in the field that interests you. A Few Book Suggestions: Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact , a publication of Echoing Green. Do it, don't think about it. Pick three more actions.

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

Thursday, October 28, 2010 How To Be A Green Leader You can be a green leader at work and help save the planet and money for your business, by following these practices and instilling these habits with your employees: Photocopiers: Use the "standby" button on your copiers and that will lighten your energy load by 70 percent.

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MARCH 11, 2009

His first book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen , which he co-authored with Anna Lappe , won a 2007 Nautilus Award for Social Change. You can listen to the interview on the Big Vision Podcast : Or read the edited transcript below. I always encourage people that if you have available green space, grow your own food.

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

ToneCheck , a software program that works with Microsoft Outlook 2003, 2007 and 2010, helps to ensure your tone is clearly communicated and understood. Or, do you have employees whole struggle with the tone of their emails? You might want to check out ToneCheck. How To Improve Customer Service With The Telephone.

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JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code. Gone Green(er).

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

more like the Berkman Center Thursday evening blogger meetups I used to attend from 2005-2007. OrganicMania or Lynn Miller who I met through Twitter and later interviewed me for this blog post about a year ago. That's rare in a conference setting. It reminded more of a saloon than a conference.

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