Material Possessions

July 11, 2009 — bloomoon
The Author’s comment: “Material possessions: they are pretty sweet.”
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GOOD.com

December 10, 2008 — bloomoon

I am officially in love with good.com.  My current favorites:

Your own factory–make your own stuff with reprap.

Cars and People–how many calories make each go?

Good Biz Facts–A Harper’s Index-like layout of green biz tidbits.

And that’s just from today’s RSS….WOW!

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Poster Art

December 10, 2008 — bloomoon

Wow, great posters somewhere or other…

Remind me of the black and white “God” posters that have been popular in the MidWest US for the last decade or so…But secular…

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Recycle your Cell Phones

December 8, 2008 — bloomoon

If you don’t already have a plan for your cell phone when it dies, consider recycling it and helping out the poor.  At onemillioncellphones.com, you can get pre-paid mailing baggies, just like the mail baggies you get to recycle your printer cartridges.

Three good reasons:

1) Toxic chemicals and metals don’t take up landfill space and thus can’t leach into groundwater.

2) Metals are recycled and reused to reduce dependence on unethical mining in around the world.

3) Provide micro-finance for poor entrepreneurs.

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Holiday Giving–to those who really NEED

November 26, 2008 — bloomoon

After earlier posts about Social Actions, and The Girl Effect, and proposing to my family that we give charitable donations rather than gifts this season, it looks like I’m not the only one thinking this way this year…

From funtasticblog at microgiving.com:

“So the answer to the question that we’ve all been asking: What happens to charitable giving when times go financially sour?

The Center of Philanthropy recently announced that charitable giving has remained steadfast during times of recession.

Furthermore—

World Vision released their results from a telephone survey that was conducted in October— which suggested that 2008 looked quite promising for charitable and non-profit organizations.

Say what?!”

Read the rest at http://www.microgiving.com/blog/?p=244

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