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OCTOBER 7, 2009

Staycations are not only affordable, they're also a great way to support your local businesses. 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. staycation tea local vacation. Happy stacationing!

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MARCH 1, 2007

February 18th was the Big Vision Podcast's One Year Anniversary. Listen Read activist activism podcast interview. Tags: podcast activism activist interview. I have just loved talking with all 19 of these amazing people about their activism, what path brought them to their work, and their advice for others.

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MAY 4, 2007

Britt Bravo has been selected by East Bay Area free weekly in their annual "best of" issue and while the readers' choice for best blog was the Daily Kos , the Editors of the East Bay Express selected Britt Bravo's blogs and podcasts for best of the East Bay.

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AUGUST 29, 2010

She is also co-host of the radio show, The Queens of Green on Green 960 , which you can also be downloaded as a podcast. I just *loved* this book, and also enjoy Temra's show, so I was super excited to interview her for the Big Vision Podcast. It stops at a certain point.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

February 18, 2009 was the 3rd anniversary of the Big Vision Podcast ! A big thanks to everyone who listens to the program, and reads the interview transcripts here on Have Fun * Do Good. If you're not a listener, you can listen to the show on the Big Vision Podcast site, or subscribe via iTunes or another podcatcher.

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DECEMBER 28, 2006

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast.

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APRIL 17, 2009

While re-reading Echoing Green's book, Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact , I've been thinking about one of its main ideas--that people have moments of obligation. One of my moments of obligation came during the Green Festival in San Francisco in the fall of 2002. Echoing Green Fellows' descriptions of their moments of obligation.

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JULY 2, 2008

Interview more activists/visionaries of color for the Big Vision Podcast. I would like to do 3 interviews with activists/visionaries of color who are having fun and doing good. Have more fun while doing good. We'll help empower kids in upbeat, social/media forms of fun, to make a difference in communities online and off."

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JUNE 29, 2010

." -- Tom Aageson, co-founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship A week, or so ago I interviewed my Dad, Tom Aageson, for a special Father's Day show on the Big Vision Podcast. You can also listen to the interview on the player at the bottom of this post, on the Big Vision Podcast landing page , or on iTunes.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Example: Echoing Green's Spark Blog , which usually covers news about social entrepreneurship and their Fellowship program, posted last spring how it took, "Three Echoing Green staffers, two good Samaritan cheerleaders, and one brave man," to rescue a cat hiding under a van outside their offices. post office line, doctor's appt.)

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MARCH 11, 2009

You can listen to the interview on the Big Vision Podcast : Or read the edited transcript below. When I think about what my grandparents ate, and what their parents ate, they ate food that was as fresh as being harvested that day, as local as their backyard garden, and as seasonal as whatever was in season. It's just inaccessible."

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AUGUST 10, 2007

In fact, they are having two Nonprofit Boot Camps in the next several weeks (full disclosure: my husband and are helping them with their podcast). Yup, and their mission is to provide free and low cost educational opportunities for emerging nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs. Their fees are totally reasonable. $50 50 for the day.

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AUGUST 3, 2008

commented that the demographic of people who are involved is much broader than you’d think, including lots of families looking for a fun, educational, free activity. Both attract locals and tourists who may travel out of their way for the thrill of collecting another place or experience. Both relate to the human drive to collect stuff.

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MARCH 9, 2007

Below is a transcript from the interview, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast. We picked this up and we dedicated a staff person to coordinate a local effort to get Bay Area cities and counties on board to support the national effort, and to contribute their soft fleet orders to the national demand for plug-in hybrids.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy. I'm going to be green. Are you hiring locally? We love it.

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JULY 16, 2007

I talked to Chris Messina of Citizen Agency and Ivan Storck of SustainableMarketing.com about their green coworking space in San Francisco, Citizen Space for the Big Vision Podcast and have posted a transcript of the interview below. Britt Bravo: What is coworking, and how can you make it green? You can even save your money.

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APRIL 24, 2007

Paul Rice, the founding president and CEO of the Oakland based nonprofit, TransFair USA , answers these questions and others in an interview for the Big Vision Podcast. You can read a transcript of the podcast below. Paul Rice: TransFair is the only organization here in the United States that certifies Fair Trade products.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

, inspired by Julia Butterfly Hill's tree-sit, Off the Mat Into the World , founded by yoga teacher Seane Corn, and Green for All , founded by Van Jones. Below is an edited transcript of an interview, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast. Off the Mat, and Green For All. You see somebody who inspires you.

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MAY 4, 2010

Below is an edited transcript of our conversation for the Big Vision Podcast which you can listen to online , or download from iTunes. While many of the women had traveled the world, many of them had also devoted their lives to local solutions. You both know I have a blog called Have Fun Do Good. What's the secret?

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OCTOBER 1, 2006

Before I left for Peru, I did an interview for the Big Vision Podcast with Jonah Sachs, the Principal of Free Range Studios , an advertising and marketing firm with offices in Washington DC and Berkeley, California that specializes in non-profits and socially responsible businesses. Britt: How did you get started?

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JUNE 30, 2007

I asked four of the women who I had previously interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast to share what brought them to their work, and their advice for the graduate and undergraduate women who attended the conference. I also produce several podcasts, one of which is called the Big Vision Podcast.

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APRIL 25, 2007

When I went to see Van Jones speak for the first time at the Green Festival in November 2002 about, "Green Jobs, Not Packed Jails," people in the States were just starting to lift their heads up from a year of fear and despair after September 11th. Our question is, will this green wave lift all boats? How do we make sure?

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