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Women and Money
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How do you deal with fear?
Reading the paper today and hearing that analysts believe most people will spend their tax rebate on groceries, gas and debt reduction, I pondered whether the recession was truly severe or if this ...
Replied Apr 30
Should we believe them? FDA says cloned food OK
More reasons to buy organic! I received a press release from the Organic Trade Association on Tuesday affirming that meat from cloned animals will not be certified as Organic by the USDA. The Nat...
Replied Jan 18
Sustainable Holidays
Well how great! A creative Bioneer called me yesterday to order some DVDs and explained to me that she was sending them as gifts this holiday to friends who would be responsive to their messages. A...
Tagged: time, holidays, peace, sustainable, restoration
Replied Dec. 18, 2007
News from Treehugger
2009 Green Car Of The Year: The Volkswagen Jetta TDI
Today, the Green Car Journal gave its 2009 Green Car of the Year award to the Volkswagen Jetta TDI at the Los Angeles Auto Show. The 2009 Jetta TDI is a quiet-running, diesel-powered car. It beat out hybrids and mini-cars to take the title. The Jetta uses a technology called "clean diesel" which actually lives up its name pretty well. It has a very clean tailpipe, and an EPA estimated 41 mpg highway fuel economy.
...World's First Plug-In Electric Car Goes On Sale Next Month -- in China
As the ghost of GM's assassinated electric car haunts a fearful Detroit, another boogeyman is waiting in the wings: the world's first mass-produced plug-in hybrid electric car, being readied for its December release -- in China.
BYD, a company that first made its reputation as the world's largest maker of cell phone batteries, has announced it will release the F3DM hybrid sedan on December 15. And BYD says it plans to release a version of the car in the US and Europe in 2010 or 2011, just when GM plans to begin selling its own plug-i...Oh Great...Less Rainforest, More Corn
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Are they going to have to make a Madagascar 3 movie where a lion, zebra, giraffe and hippo work to rescue some crazy lepilemurs (and pygmy tarsiers) not from foosas, but from human destruction?
South Korea’s Daewoo Logistics has signed a 99-year lease entitling them to half of all Madagascar’s arable land. And, they will pay nothing to farm corn and palm oil there.
The goal is to boost Seo...Santa Fe Susie-Q
Profile Information
- Hometown:
- Santa Fe, NM
- About Me:
- Thirty-something non-profit administrator.
- What are you working on?
- Eco Retail
- Website:
- http://www.fairdaisy.com
- Favorite Book:
- Pride and Prejudice, The Lord of the Rings and Worms Eat my Garbage by Mary Appelhof
- Favorite Musician:
- Mozart & Fiona
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Transition Towns
Posted on July 9, 2008 at 11:30am —
Bigger is Better?
Listen to a report on NPR… Continue
Posted on January 29, 2008 at 5:39pm — 2 Comments
Enjoying organic cotton just got easier!
Bioneers has just improved the apparel section of our online store making it easier to order sweatshop-free t-shirts fashioned from 100% organic cotton. Experience the comfort of eco-fri… Continue
Posted on January 11, 2008 at 12:29pm —
The Gift of Hope
What a thoughtful way to spread good news this holiday!
The top 5 items purchased as gifts t… Continue
Posted on December 18, 2007 at 10:13am —
Future Stewards of the Earth
You know, what I love about vermicomposting besides the wormie-worms is the the principle that it demonstrates - turning waste into riches. Kids love it! See what's going on at Pacific Ridge School in Carlsbad, CA between San Diego and Los Angeles. Red wrigglers are not to… Continue Posted on December 12, 2007 at 3:57pm —
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I'm tweaking some issues on the site, because different browsers do different odd things to it. So if you visit and it seems a little quirky, just know I'm working on the issues. I'd love to see you on ecopaparazzi.
http://www.alternet.org/election08/87629/?page=1
Thank you for your warm welcome to this group. I am really looking forward to learning more about how other women are changing our world.
I am really excited that so many women, everywhere, are working to get our issues resolved. I believe with all my heart that many of our Global problems would be made better with attention to equality and justice for women. Equal pay would elminate poverty for women in the US, particularly when Social Security payments support a woman in her old age. I also see that women wouldn't remain in abusive relationships if they had their own money equal to their needs: housing, food, medical, child care and transportation. In fact, there are towns in the UK where this is already working...women got the new factory jobs that men wouldn't take. Now, the men are unemployed and the women don't even have to live with men or marry to raise their children. I am not advocating the end of family life, but feel that even that would be so much better if everyone got to choose to be there.
I have started a nonprofit in Alaska, (www.alaskayarncouncil.org)that hopes to support cottage industry for needleworkers of all types through a "web studio" on our website. My business model intends to allow women (and in the spirit of equality, all men, too) throughout my state to rent a studio in our virtual shopping mall for only $5 per month to sell and promote their needlework (quilts, beading, basketry, knitting, weaving, crochet, etc.).
My purpose for this nonprofit is to insure the survival of needlework, but the added goal of this web studio is to promote women's abilities to work at home, save on childcare, and get the most from their work as possible.
We are finalizing our Federal nonprofit status right now, and then it's only money needed to make this goal a reality. I have also approached the Native Corporations about making this part of their rural economic development plan, and as you may already know 50% of our state's population lives in rural areas. Eveyone I have spoken to loves this idea and is anxious to be a part of it.
I have been inspired by my own struggles on disability, and the need to be able to turn my knitting talents into real money. I spent 12 years as a stay-at-home mother, working without pay. My husband divorced me after 19 years of marriage for his secreatry (a cliche) and got my alimony dismissed in bankruptcy court. I hadn't finished my architectural degree, so I worked for only 6 years at low paying jobs and in a recession, until I became ill and went on disability at 45. Now, I live on $684 mo, and try to survive within our unraveling safety net, often without food, just because I am a woman. Had I been a man, I would have more Social Security from better paying jobs, and I wouldn't have worked for 12 years without pay. By the way, there is a Homemaker Credit for Social Security for divorced women, but you have to be 65 to get it. This means young, disabled women live in poverty if they weren't working for pay all their life. Who knows how we'll manage when Social Security runs out.
So, I have taken my leadership abilities and talents and am working to change a small part of my global world. Wish me luck! Lots of Alaskan women need this web studio.
Just posted that blog you encouraged me to do. Many thanks for your support.
Janet
I feel very grateful to be welcomed so warmly. Yes I am happy to start a blog on my work with the 13 Grandmothers. I have never done one - what do I do? I feel like I am launching into a whole new group of friends. Cheers Janet
Thanks for the welcome. I'm excited to find a forum on women's leadership where we can spread our wings and be proactive instead of reactive!
Allison
Thanks for the welcome! Happy to see so many innovative women working towards a sustainable future!
~Adiel
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