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11/08/11
The Food Revolution School Lunch Photo Wall has just a few weeks left before submissions and ratings close on November 28th. So far, there’s been over 25,000 votes and over 200,000 of you have visited the photo wall . Not only have lunch photos been uploaded from all across the US, but from other...
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11/08/11
Abigail E. Disney is one of three Executive Producers of the groundbreaking PBS mini-series Women, War & Peace, the most comprehensive global media initiative ever mounted on the role of women in peace and conflict. Tuesday, War Redefined – the capstone, finale episode – featuring all three...
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11/07/11
Johnson and Johnson shampoo is iconic. The slender golden bottle with it's jaunty, nursery room font. The softly lit commercials of happily bathing babies and smiling moms. The formaldehyde-releasing preservative quaternium-15. [1] Hold on. What?! We were shocked when we read a new report by the...
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11/07/11
When I was about three years old, I observed something that formed one of my earliest memories. Sitting outside of my mother’s family home in Calcutta at twilight, I saw a man on the street walking very fast with a toddler in his arms. I think it was a boy. A few steps behind them was a woman,...
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11/07/11
Not that I needed another reason to be grateful for many of the workplace benefits my current employer provides but I can’t help but be incredibly thankful that during Connecticut’s “snowtober” as it’s being called, my employer has allowed several of her employees the ability to work from home, be...
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11/03/11
(This piece was also written by Monali Sheth) Feminist activist Gloria Steinem has remarked that “[i]gnorance is the root of oppression.” So it is important that Equal Rights Advocates, a nonprofit legal organization working for women and girls, acknowledges this twentieth anniversary of the...
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11/03/11
This is as gross to me as the thought of an expired hamburger that has fallen on the floor and been sneezed on prior to sale. The restaurant lobby spent $837,000 to defeat a sick days bill in Denver, according to the trade publication Nation's Restaurant News . The bill, Initiative 300, would have...
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11/03/11
If your daily roundtrip commute to work is around 40 miles then you are spending approximately $2,000 per year on fuel. AAA estimates that the hidden costs of car insurance, oil changes, annual depreciation on your car purchase, etc. add a whooping $3,000 more to your annual costs. In addition, you...
11/02/11
Last week, I shared my passion for a world without nuclear weapons with you. It's truly heartening to know that other mothers also care deeply about not trading our children's futures for nuclear weapons. So today I'm sharing this video . Oscar-nominated actress Naomi Watts and former CIA operative...
11/02/11
Turned to your favorite news source lately? You’ve surely noticed that as another election season gathers steam, the so-called “civil” servants jockeying to represent us spend their time trying to pummel each other with barbs and bile. The conversation never seems to turn to vital issues like the...
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