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Tag Archives: Community
Happy Food Day! Video Greeting Card to Spread the Love
Huge thanks to all the video contributors’ time and thoughtful lessons that we can all celebrate, acknowledge and honor on Food Day! Oct. 24, 2012. ALSO: Join this call! Bridging Communities (a Duke Univ. grad student group engaging in social … Continue reading
Social Entrepreneurs have a Role in Recessionary Recovery
In 2009, President Obama gave a rare shout-out to New Jersey-based social entrepreneur Alfa Demmellash, founder of Rising Tide Capital in Hoboken. Rising Tide Capital serves small business owners and people considering starting a business by providing start-up and business … Continue reading
Posted in SustainaBRAND
Tagged Community, Development, social enterprise, Sustainable Business, Women
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Video: International development fund answers prayers in Harlem and Ethiopia
Recently, I had the pleasure of sitting with Reverend Nicholas Richards of Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church, to talk about his spearheading of the Abyssinian Fund, which provides development grants in the form of training, education and technical assistance to a … Continue reading
SustainACTIVITY: Haiti In:Sight Benefit
Ayiti Resurrect & Ayiti Cherie in association with Ubiquita Worldwide cordially invite you to HAITI IN:SIGHT – A SOULFUL BENEFIT FOR HEALING IN HAITI. as we approach the one year anniversary of the epic tragedy,we ask that you please support … Continue reading
Posted in SustainACTIVITY
Tagged Community, Diaspora, Haiti, sustainable development
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SustainACTIVITY: Black Farmers & Urban Gardeners Conference
November 19-21rst will be the first annual conference to forge food, farming and policy solutions for the Black Community will convene at Brooklyn College in New York City, convening farmers, gardeners, activists, students and community leaders from across the nation.
Posted in SustainACTIVITY
Tagged Community, Development, Diaspora, Environmental Justice, Farmers, Farming, Food, Green, Sustainable Business, Will Allen
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4 Key reasons you should network in the green economy
I had a really wonderful time at the UrbanGoGreen Expo. The event was charged with a warm community feel, and it was very easy to talk to all the speakers and vendors in the room. People directly grappling with job … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Practice Makes Perfect
Tagged Community, Development, Energy, Environment, Green, Inspiration
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An Ethnology of Sustainability: Part 2
One of my major inspirations in pursuing a hands-on understanding of sustainability is Will Allen, MacArthur prize fellow and the CEO of Growing Power, a wildly successful urban farm in Milwaukee. Will Allen is a powerful torch-bearer for urban farmers … Continue reading
Posted in Food Justice, Keepers of the Seed
Tagged Community, Development, Diaspora, Environmental Justice, Farmers, Farming, Food, Green, Inspiration, Will Allen
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An Ethnology of Sustainability: Part 1 Heroines in “Gringolandia”
Aunque, I had tried in earnest to find a travel destination not overrun by wealthy Westerners, or gringos as they are called and now call themselves, I nonetheless landed in a thicket of a little gringo community in Pedregossa, Costa … Continue reading
Posted in Food Justice, Good Food & Recipes, Journeys
Tagged backpacking, Budget travel, C. Sala Hewitt, Community, Costa Rica, Development, Environmental Justice, Farmers, Farming, Health, Inspiration, Women
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Roots in water... 