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8 Nonprofits Championing Environmental Sustainability on Earth Day

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Each year, individuals worldwide take the opportunity to do better for our planet with actions such as planting trees, cleaning local communities, and raising awareness for environmental causes through peer-to-peer fundraising pages. Volkswagen, GM, Amazon, and the USPS pledged a commitment to green vehicles.

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Bay Localize & Green Roofs: An Interview with Ingrid Severson

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Ingrid Severson is the lead project organizer of the Rooftop Resources project, a project of the Oakland non-profit Bay Localize. You can listen to my interview with Ingrid on the Big Vision Podcast , or read a transcript here. Ingrid: Bay Localize is a non-profit project that started back in December of 2005.

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What's Your Moment of Obligation?

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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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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

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

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Temra Costa's book, Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat features the stories of over 30 women and how they are changing our food system for the better as farmers, educators, mothers, chefs, businesswomen, and policy wonks. They're also providing a lot of jobs locally. It stops at a certain point.

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8 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs

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Example: The Environmental Defense Fund's blog, Climate 411 , "is the voice of the experts at Environmental Defense Fund, providing plain-English explanations of climate change science, technology, policy, and news." Example: The Craigslist Foundation announces podcast recordings from their Nonprofit Boot Camp on their blog each week.

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Bryant Terry: Eco-chef, Food Justice Activist, Author of Vegan Soul Kitchen

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He is currently a Fellow in the Food and Society Policy Fellows Program, which is a national project of the W.K. You can listen to the interview on the Big Vision Podcast : Or read the edited transcript below. You're a Fellow at the Food and Society Policy Fellows Program. Kellogg Foundation. Grub Project.