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Nomad Cafe: How to Start a Green Cafe

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Have you ever thought about starting a green cafe? Well, Chris Waters of the Nomad Cafe in Oakland not only thought about it, he made it happen. What makes the Nomad Cafe a green and sustainable cafe ? What makes the Nomad Cafe a green and sustainable cafe ? It was a lot of fun, and I earned a lot of money.

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

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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. It was shocking and deplorable, really terrible, to learn that and know that it's not at the forefront of a lot of people's thinking when they think about local food or regional food.

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Interview with Jodie Van Horn of Freedom from Oil and Plug-in Bay Area

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The three Bay Area municipalities, along with Oakland and San Francisco (who haven't placed their orders yet) have all signed-on to be part of Plug-In Bay Area, an initiative to put more plug-in hybrid vehicles on the road. They need to put the money into making the battery technology available, but they are claiming that they can't do that.

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Fair Trade Certified: An Interview with Paul Rice of TransFair USA

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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. And in those communities high school is a luxury, so the local school in the local community typically goes through sixth grade.

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Small Groups Can Change the World: An Interview with Marianne Manilov of The Engage Network

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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. You see, perhaps, Julia Butterfly Hill, who sat in a tree, or you see Van Jones, who's the leader of Green For All, or maybe you see somebody else. Maybe you're going to give money.

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Raising the Floor of the Platform Economy: Co-ops, Unions, and the Struggle to Transform Technology

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Recently, SEIU United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU- UHW West) in Oakland California also helped launch AlliedUP , a cooperative staffing firm owned by allied professional healthcare workers, by investing in startup costs. These connections are often fostered between union workers who learn about platform worker exploitation.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

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And as Britt said, I also am the Art and Media Director at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , which is based out of Oakland. The homicide rate, as people are probably aware of, has just really increased in the last few years in Oakland, where I live. I also produce several podcasts, one of which is called the Big Vision Podcast.

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