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JANUARY 6, 2012

Was it fun? class at Hipline , a belly dance fitness studio in Berkeley and Oakland. It's super fun! I'm going to say it here: In 2012 I would like to be a part of a dance flash mob, like the one that happened in the Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport: Have you ever been a part of a dance flash mob? How did you find it?

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NOVEMBER 18, 2009

What better way to have fun while doing good then doing something nice for an animal! We wouldn't have found our awesome cat if it wasn't for Maine Coon Adoptions here in Oakland. I've been thinking a lot about animals lately, as I've mentioned in a couple recent posts, Midlife Food Crisis: What's Your Food Story? , and Love Animals?

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JUNE 7, 2014

I''m having so much fun! I took all of the photos in this post walking on the not always pretty streets of Oakland. Cooking, connecting and caring made sense, but I didn''t fully understand the color part until last week when I joined Andrea Sher''s e-course: Collecting Color: 30 Days of Photo Joy.

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APRIL 12, 2012

in Oakland. Connect: In addition to being able to spend lots of time with the hubs , I'm lucky to have lots of women friends to chat with in-person, and over "Skype tea." In fact, I'm writing this while co-working with Julie Daley , Rachel Cole , and Tara Mohr. Create: Cooking, baking, blogging and collage are all creative outlets for me.

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JUNE 14, 2011

Collecting petitions Last week I stood outside of my local library collecting signatures to save libraries in Oakland. For inspiration, read the round up of creative ways Save Oakland Libraries is getting its message out (e.g. We're facing potential closures of 14 neighborhood libraries, and reduced services at the remaining four.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Hello Have Fun • Do Gooders! Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:00-1:15 PM Holiday Inn Hotel and Suites Oakland Airport 77 Hegenberger Rd. Oakland blog podcast San Francisco Oakland nonprofit writer marketing business women I've got a full speaking calendar in the middle of the month.

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JANUARY 6, 2006

I was searching through the iTunes Music Store's iMix section for new running music and thought I'd add my own iMix, so here is my 30 minute Have Fun * Do Good mix. If you go to the iTunes Music Store's iMix section and search by "iMix name" for "Have Fun * Do Good Mix" it should come up and you can hear bits of the songs.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

LINK LOVE Bay Area folks, join me November 15th for Jennifer Lee's Right-Brain Business Plan Workshop in Oakland. 29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life Filling the Well: Giving to Yourself Join My Village: Ladies Home Journal Do Good Challenge Make Someone's Day: Write a Letter Whew! It's been a been a busy few weeks!

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JANUARY 29, 2006

I read this article about gospel aerobics in the Oakland Tribune after Christmas and thought it was great. During a gospel aerobics class, the instructor plays gospel music (which I love), and makes connections for the women between their spiritual and physical health.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

While reading one of my guilty pleasure blogs, Ecorazzi: The Latest in Green Gossip , I learned about a fun way to help dogs and cats get adopted in their post, Celebrities Sign up to Twitter a Critter. I just Twittered another critter, a Maine Coon in Oakland named Amos , in the middle of writing this post. I think I'm addicted.

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MARCH 9, 2009

Jones is the author of The Green Collar Economy and Founder of the Oakland-based, Green for All. You can read a copy of the interview on Have Fun * Do Good , but I really recommend you listen to it on the Big Vision Podcast.

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MARCH 26, 2013

or Code for Oakland ). But more than anything, hackathons are fun events to network and meet allies interested in supporting your cause. Libraries have also been getting in on the hacking fun. Hackathons for Social Good. Library Hackathons.

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

Our second tea tasting stop was the Numi Tea Garden in Oakland. Numi Tea is an environmentally and socially responsible tea company based in Oakland (but you can buy their tea nationally). Our two weekends of tea tasting adventures were fun, and got me excited to find other local tea houses locally, and when we travel.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

As a Bay Area liberal blogger who lives in Oakland , I feel like I should be taking part in occupations, posting photos, interviewing organizers, and sharing ways to get involved, but I haven't done any of those things. I want to be excited about this global movement, but I'm not. It just makes me sad, and a bit tired.

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DECEMBER 3, 2012

When she's not out fighting plastic pollution, she spends her time with her husband, and two rascally kitties in Oakland, CA. You can follow her on Twitter at @PlasticfreeBeth. You can listen and subscribe to the Big Vision Podcast via iTunes , or on the player above.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2012

I learned that Oakland's drinking water originates from six places: San Pablo Reservoir on San Pablo Creek Briones Reservoir on Bear Creek Lafayette Reservoir Upper San Leandro Reservoir Lake Chabot on San Leandro Creek Pardee and Camanche Reservoirs on the Mokelumne River I had absolutely no idea that my water came from so many sources.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Carl Sagan One of the items on my Fun-Do List for Thanksgiving was to try some new recipes, and boy, did I! I ended up buying fresh Roasted Butternut and Chestnut Ravioli in Pumpkin Pasta from Market Hall in Oakland. You can see past Meatless Monday posts by clicking here. How can you go wrong with ravioli and sweet potatoes!

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APRIL 29, 2013

She lives in Oakland with her 8-year-old son, Jonah Ravi, and her partner, Adrienn. She currently serves on the design team and faculty of the NoVo Foundation''s Move to End Violence — a 10-year movement building initiative to end gender-based violence.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Rachel can be found creating and coaching from her kitchen table in Oakland, California. The common ingredient in all of Rachel’s varied endeavors is a passion for inspiring people to craft well-fed, compassionate, and connected lives. Her driving question for all of us is “What are you TRULY hungry for?”

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

But even more fun was this video interview with the good folks at the Gifts In Kind International who I ran into in the lobby and they pulled out their copy of the book and shared a few thoughts about they’re applying the ideas. Stay tuned for a video interview I did with him while in Vegas. Independent Sector in Atlanta.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2008

I've been following Barack Obama for about as long as I've written Have Fun * Do Good: • I wrote about his podcast in September 2005: Obama's podcasts and Clinton's version of Slamdance. Saw him speak in 2007: Obama in Oakland. • Listed Dreams of My Father as one of my Favorite Do-Good Books of 2006. •

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Kimberly Wilson , Tranquil Space Foundation ( I interviewed Kimberly in November 2009 ) Lisa Rose Starner, Burdock and Rose Megan Webb, Oakland Animal Services Organizers of S. Kitchen presents.Sing for Your Supper Scott Beale, Atlas Service Corps Simon Berry, ColaLife Vanessa Stone, Amala Foundation Who else should be on this list?

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Hey Have Fun * Do Gooders! Green for All and Van Jones are both based in Oakland, CA (where I live) so I've been following their work for awhile. I'm helping Green for All get the word out about Van Jones ' new book, The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Two of Our Biggest Problems.

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JANUARY 19, 2011

Image: Photo taken in Oakland's Redwood Regional Park made to look extra awesome with Instagram. Nonprofits could use Instagram to share photos: from the field from an event, march or fundraiser as they build, or create something (e.g.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Darius Graham is giving away a copy of his book, Being the Difference: True Stories of Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things to Change the World to a lucky Have Fun * Do Good reader! While in Florida, Darius created Books All Around, Inc. , a nonprofit organization that promotes youth literacy. ordinary heroes book

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MAY 4, 2007

By profiling individuals and organizations who enact various visions of utopia, Oakland's Britt Bravo expresses her own hope for a better world. The name of another of Bravo's blogs, "Have Fun * Do Good," may be her daily mantra, but "big vision" is an equally apt tagline ???

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AUGUST 29, 2010

Everywhere I go and talk about the book, it's so fun to meet a new community of food producers. I've been having a lot of fun with that, and I'm continuing to tell stories about women on the FarmerJane.org website, where I feature Farmer Jane , and then Civil Eats has been posting some of those, and the Rodale Institute.

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JANUARY 25, 2007

Well, Chris Waters of the Nomad Cafe in Oakland not only thought about it, he made it happen. We participate in the City of Oakland's Maintain-a-Drain program, and do our part daily to remove litter from the street in our neighborhood. It was a lot of fun, and I earned a lot of money. Create a business plan. Secure financing.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

He was recently named 2009 Young Professional of the Year by the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. Jose sits on various economic development boards: the Oakland Workforce Investment Board, the Bay Area Business Advisory Board of Directors for the Consulate General of Mexico in San Francisco, and the OneCalifornia Bank Advisory Board.

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AUGUST 9, 2006

They have five listed for my city, Oakland. My husband and I went to a new farmers' market in Oakland, the Temescal Farmers' Market, a couple weeks ago, where I took the photos of the beets and tomatoes, and almost all of the produce there was organic, which was a real treat. oakland farmers market organic local food

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AUGUST 6, 2008

Last week I announced a new weekly feature that I'm trying out on Have Fun * Do Good, Ask Britt , where you send in questions related to career design for artists and activists, and I'll do my best to answer them. For example, we have a small store in Oakland called Issues that sells international newspapers and magazines.

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

For example, I live in Oakland, CA where according to an August 2008 Oakland Tribune article , 17.6% of Oakland residents are living in poverty. Here are 4 things you can do to alleviate poverty in your community: Volunteer year round.

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MARCH 24, 2006

The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights' Reclaim the Future program is hosting a Solution Salon Thursday, May 18th from 6-8 PM at the James Irvine Conference Center (353 Frank Ogawa Plaza, near 14th and Broadway in Oakland). solution salon oakland

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JULY 7, 2010

As Peter wrote: If someone enjoys Arts Event A because it’s social, informal, energetic, fun, and hip, why should we expect her to also enjoy Arts Event B if B is individual, formal, quiet, serious, and traditional (at least in its presentation, if not artistically)? At some point you have to make some "or" choices. You can't always do "and."

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MAY 7, 2007

The same people who produced "Going Within", 49th Parallel Productions , have also created Not Just a Number , a community journalism project for The Oakland Tribune which focuses on the topic of violence and violence prevention. Last year Oakland's homicide rate reached a five-year high of 148 people.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2008

A big thanks to everyone who listens to the program and reads the interview transcripts here on Have Fun * Do Good. Scotlan Youth Program in West Oakland. February 18, 2008 was the 2nd anniversary of the Big Vision Podcast ! Over the past two years I have had the privilege of interviewing 30 "Big Visionaries."

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

bike walk advocacy nonprofit photgraphy contest

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