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TechSoup Global at National Day of Civic Hacking

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While the challenges were focused mainly on local or statewide issues, they came up with solutions that could be adopted for national issues as well. The projects varied from educational tools for children to energy efficiency. ReWrite Oakland. Image 3: ReWrite Oakland, Caravan Studios. Honolulu Day of Civic Hacking.

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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

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org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis and push for policies that will put the world on track to reduce our planetary CO2 to safe levels - 350 parts per million. The organization is one of the most prominent front -line, direct-action environmental nonprofits addressing the problem of global climate change.

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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

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org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis and push for policies that will put the world on track to reduce our planetary CO2 to safe levels - 350 parts per million. The organization is one of the most prominent front -line, direct-action environmental nonprofits addressing the problem of global climate change.

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Give the Gift of Time Together for the Holidays

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Inside the box was a brochure for the Oakland Zoo. It's important to give back to your local and global community, but it is also important to "give back" to your friends and family. When she opened the tiny little box, glued inside the lid was a piece of paper that unfolded, like a fortune cookie fortune.

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Interview with Temra Costa, Author of Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat

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They all represent either a farmer, educator, activist, or chef, but they still share the connection that they're aware of global issues. They become more aware of global economies, of how our global economy impacts other countries, the opening of how we become more aware of our actions and how they impact others. They traveled.

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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. If we can begin to build that at a local base, we can begin to create jobs that are associated with that new structure that we create. These are a lot more of the sort of peripheral aspects of this problem.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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"Now, 18 months later, all of Juana's children are in school. We make a huge effort to disseminate our news locally via radio partnerships, and other satellite partnerships, so that the people in the communities we serve are benefiting from our news first. Our age ranges in all of our global training sites range from 19 to 56.