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Sew to Serve Connects Seamstresses with Causes

Sew to Serve Connects Seamstresses with Causes

Bernina, a popular sewing machine company is no stranger to sewing for a good cause. Now, they've launched a community to help even more seamstresses connect with charities in need: We All Sew.

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Haiti Relief: How You Can Help

Haiti Relief: How You Can Help

The people of Haiti need our help now… After a few conversations with people over the last couple days it is clear to me that some people don’t realize the extent of the devastation that this earthquake has caused, and it’s understandable because most people have not and never will experience such a thing.  The reality [...]

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Exploring Sustainability and Our Food System with OrganicNation

Exploring Sustainability and Our Food System with OrganicNation

What does organic really mean? How does food really go from farm to table? City girl Dorothee Royal teamed up with photographer Mark Andrew Boyer to answer those questions and document their adventure as they “explore America’s sustainable food landscape.” They’re traveling the U.S. visiting organic farms, community gardens, and restaurants to learn about where [...]

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Socially Networked: Building Community with Evolver

Socially Networked: Building Community with Evolver

If you’re reading this site, chances are the you’re looking to make a change, either in your own life or something on a larger scale. Maybe you belong to an activist group or maybe you’re just doing the best you can on your own. The social networking site Evolver is a fantastic resource [...]

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Woman Wears Same Dress for a Year to Put 175 Kids in School

Woman Wears Same Dress for a Year to Put 175 Kids in School

Brooklynite Sheena Matheiken has been wearing the same little black dress since May 2009 to benefit the Akanksha Foundation, a group working to give children in India's slums equal access to education.

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Reduce, Reuse, Refashion: An Interview with Nichola Prested

Reduce, Reuse, Refashion: An Interview with Nichola Prested

Nichola Prested is passionate about fashion and about sustainability. While looking for a way to expand her wardrobe without putting pressure on her wallet or on the planet, she stumbled into something bigger. What started as a project just for her quickly turned into the collective blog, Wardrobe Refashion, which Green My Style voted [...]

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We Add Up’s Climate Action Giveaway and Call to Action

We Add Up’s Climate Action Giveaway and Call to Action

We Add Up, the global marketing campaign to raise awareness about climate change, has teamed up with non profits like 350.org and 1Sky to put together the ‘World’s Biggest Green Sweepstakes.’ The sweepstakes started during Climate Week, the last week in September. Folks can enter until December 7, when they’ll have a random drawing for [...]

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DMB Promoting Green with SO MUCH TO SAVE

DMB Promoting Green with SO MUCH TO SAVE

As part of the Bama Project, the Dave Matthews Band is offering a cool incentive called “SO MUCH TO SAVE” to remind concert goers to recycle.  According to the band, over 1 million people will attend DMB shows this summer, and they explain: Imagine if each fan recycled just one can at each show. That’s one [...]

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10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media

10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media

This post is a collaboration between Mashable’s Summer of Social Good charitable fundraiser and Max Gladwell’s “10 Ways” series. The post is being simultaneously published across more than 100 blogs. Social media is about connecting people and providing the tools necessary to have a conversation. That global conversation is an extremely powerful platform for spreading [...]

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Daniel Beltra’s New Photos Show Amazon’s Glory and Destruction

Daniel Beltra’s New Photos Show Amazon’s Glory and Destruction

Daniel Beltra, a Spanish photographer, is traveling the world to capture the world’s three major rainforest regions. We have some of his amazing shots from the first leg of the trip… the Amazon! From cattle men in the deforested Mato Grasso region of Brazil to smiling native Indian children pointing down the barrel of his [...]

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