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Peacekeeper Cause-Metics Invites Women to Create One Collective, Global Voice to Stop Human Slavery and Poverty in Our Lifetime

What if you knew that every time you were putting on lipstick you were giving a girl a chance? PeaceKeeper Cause-Metics, a cosmetics line that gives donations to women’s health advocacy and urgent human rights issues, is inviting women to join them in taking action to end human trafficking. Can your buying power save a life? Absolutely! Your purchase will have a direct impact on women and children who are suffering extreme poverty, or have been sold into hard labor, or domestic or sexual servitu… Continue

Added by 3BL Media on December 1, 2009 at 9:26pm — No Comments

PeaceKeeper Cause-Metics™ Offers Holiday Care Packages

PeaceKeeper Cause-Metics™ Holiday Care Packages are perfect holiday gifts that let you experience our award winning, 75% organic, mineral-based makeup line, and leave you wanting more. Each care package consists of a PeaceKeeper lipstick, nail polish and a lip gloss. Choose one of each for your customized care package here. PeaceKeeper’Cause-Metics is an enterprising philanthropic brand which… Continue

Added by 3BL Media on November 30, 2009 at 8:43pm — No Comments

Possible Club Investment - how a small investment can benefit both the NGO/ONG and the community farmers

This idea is being discussed by our directors .... we have a small area on the farm owned by Christian, where we could do this project with a very small investment. The resulting 'humus' produced by raising earthworms could provide benefits for our community farmers, and also produce income by selling it to nurseries, and gardeners in the cities nearby. --------------------------------------

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Added by Donald Reid on October 24, 2009 at 10:51am — 2 Comments

An example of how an non-profit can help family agriculture in a developing or poor country - Peirre Rabhi

We are working with Family Agriculture in the poor northeast of Brazil. Peirre Rabhi works in Africa, but the conditions are the same. Some 30 years ago I also worked with FAO, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Peirre's story had become sort of a 'guideline' for our NGO/ONG (Christian, one of our directors is also French). Christian stated this morning that to do a project like this .. Family Agriculture .. one must love the land .. the earth can give us so much. One w… Continue

Added by Donald Reid on October 24, 2009 at 9:56am — No Comments

First B Corporation Annual Report Released

B Lab, the nonprofit that certifies B Corporations (“B” is for benefit), will publish the first B Corporation Annual Report in collaboration with Sustainable Industries, the business source for leaders of the New Economy. The report will include a summary of B Lab’s progress to date in building a new sector of the economy through the growing community of certified B Corps, creation of a new corporate form, and a new rating system for imp… Continue

Added by 3BL Media on October 1, 2009 at 2:11pm — No Comments

Ocean Renewable Power Receives $1.3M in DOE Funds

The U.S. Department of Energy awarded more than $1.3 million to Portland, Me.-based Ocean Renewable Power Company to develop two projects, according to this article in SustainableBusiness.com. The DOE will contribute up to $750,000 for two years for the company to design a mooring system for devices that will be moored below the sur… Continue

Added by Jeff on September 20, 2009 at 11:31pm — No Comments

The Latest From the Sea Suite

Business Lessons From the Spiny Dogfish Crisis for one is opportunity for another. Commercial fisherman and the fish-eating public exploited an abundant resource (the Atlantic cod) to near extinction, and the dogfish raced in to fill the niche thus opened up. The cod's (and cod fishermen's) crisis created opportunities for the dogfish and for fishermen in other parts of the world who… Continue

Added by SustainableSeas on September 13, 2009 at 7:28am — No Comments

SUSTAINABLE SITEMAP INITIATIVE | Join The Green Challenges for $9.99 and complete a Sustainable Sitemap

SUSTAINABLE SITEMAP LINK | http://bit.ly/26CA4d JOIN THE GREEN CHALLENGES | http://bit.ly/omgBB The Sustainable Sitemap Initiative (SSI) is a multi-faceted program targeting organizational sustainability through web and communication transparency. Our initial research showed that less than 40% (<400) of the leading U.S. businesses have any indication, page or section regarding their environme… Continue

Added by Chris Davis on August 31, 2009 at 8:10pm — No Comments

Slideshows about using social media for sustainability projects

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Added by Steve Lubetkin on August 19, 2009 at 6:14am — No Comments

Giant Food has established a seafood sustainability program.

Read details here: http://www.giantfood.com/living_well/healthy_living/seafood_sustainability.htm Continue

Added by Steve Lubetkin on August 13, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Obama Admin. Fuel-Efficiency Rules Likely to Exempt Daimler, BMW

"German luxury auto makers including BMW AG and Daimler AG's Mercedes-Benz are close to benefitting from a U.S. concession that will allow them and a few other foreign makers to keep selling cars that emit more greenhouse gases than those made by mass-market rivals such as General Motors Co. and Toyota Motor Corp.," according to this article in the Wall Street Journal.

Why?

"The German comp… Continue

Added by Jeff on July 31, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Sustainable Favela Tourism

Please check out my website on how I am empowering people and creating jobs for residents in my comunity of Rocinha. I was born and raise in Rocinha and am very fortunate to have the ability be a catalyst for change and positive things. The goal of my venture is to build a comunity center where Arts and Cultural programs thrive! http://www.favelatour.org And my Blog about everyday life of me in Rocinha http://lifeinrocinha.blogspot.com Thank you for your support! Zezinho Continue

Added by Zezinho da Rocinha on July 30, 2009 at 5:22pm — 2 Comments

Today in The Sea Suite: Community-Supported Fisheries and Recycled Oil Rigs

Turn Old Oil Rigs Into Eco-Friendly Resorts? Approximately 4,000 oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico are set to be decommissioned within the next century. Instead of blowing them up at a cost of millions of dollars and lots of sea life, how about turning these rigs into exclusive, self-sufficient eco-friendly resorts? Community-Supported Fisheries: Now, THAT'S What I'm Talking About! Community-supported fisheries - an emerging trend analagous to community-supported agriculture - offers… Continue

Added by SustainableSeas on July 17, 2009 at 7:48pm — No Comments

Check Out "The Sea Suite" - a Blog Devoted to the Business End of Ocean Sustainability

In keeping with the spirit of OurWorld, I have launched a new blog called The Sea Suite (www.seasuite.blogspot.com) as a place to discuss in depth the business issues and approaches that will help save our oceans, which are truly in crisis. I hope everyone at OurWorld will take a few minutes to check it out and, if it proves interesting, sign up to receive updates. I am not leaving OurWorld...just branching out. I hope the relationsh… Continue

Added by SustainableSeas on July 14, 2009 at 6:27am — No Comments

Responsible Tourism Alive in Bosnia & Herzegovina

Travel responsibly in Bosnia & Herzegovina, looking beyond its recent past and onward to a greener present. Full article here: http://www.whl.travel/blog/?p=652 Continue

Added by Ashley on July 7, 2009 at 7:43am — No Comments

Creating a Personal Plan for Confronting Climate Change: Part 3 – Crunching the Carbon Footprint Numbers

In “Creating a Personal Plan for Confronting Climate Change: Part 1,” I argued that if people are serious about confronting climate change, they need to stop reading lists of tips on how to reduce their carbon footprint and gather a few reliable resourc… Continue

Added by Jay Kilby on July 1, 2009 at 3:25pm — No Comments

Creating a Personal Plan for Confronting Climate Change: Part 2 – Taking Political Action

As one new climate study after another crosses our headlines, most of us have come to understand that the problem is real, but we are uncertain about what we need to do about it. In Creating a Personal Plan for Confronting Climate Change: Part 1 – Sources o… Continue

Added by Jay Kilby on July 1, 2009 at 3:15pm — No Comments

Creating a Personal Plan for Confronting Climate Change: Part 1 – Sources of Information

Although climate change denial is alive and well, most of us are beginning to acknowledge the wisdom in Governor Schwarzenegger’s analogy: denial of climate change is like taking your sick child to 100 doctors and siding with the two who tell you that nothing needs to be done against the 98 who say that the child must take medicine or die (Thomas Friedman, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, 138). Most of us are on board in recognizing the threat posed by climate change and our responsibility to do… Continue

Added by Jay Kilby on July 1, 2009 at 3:11pm — No Comments

PERMACULTURE (PERMACULTURA)

Our NGO/ONG in Brazil - ABTC-BRASIL - is broadening our approach to 'family agriculture' and in concentrating on developing our school to teach ecologically sustainable agriculture and the customs and language (Portuguese) in the country.

The word "Permaculture" was coined in 1978 by Bill Mollison, an Australian ecologist, and one of his students, David H… Continue

Added by Donald Reid on June 22, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

We Need to Stop Eating the Oceans: Commentary by Captain Paul Watson

The Oceans are like the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg. As long as it was alive it laid a golden egg each day but then the greedy farmer decided to kill it to get all the gold inside and found nothing and the Goose laid no more golden eggs because it was dead.

For centuries, the oceans have fed humankind. But in the last century, human greed has raped and pillaged oceanic eco-systems remorsefully with an ecological ignorance that is staggeringly insane.

I don't eat fish because I a… Continue

Added by SustainableSeas on April 8, 2009 at 2:28pm — No Comments