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Every person can make a positive difference to benefit all
The Community Legacy Program of Our United Villages believes that every person can make a positive difference for the benefit of all. They celebrate and support everyday people who in small ways are...
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Food Forest tour – plants change people
Why have brown grass when you can be feeding people? This gentleman planted a food forest in the parking strip in front of his house. Neighbors come by to walk the paths. What a great community...
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Elegant black evening gown
Marilyn shares this elegant gem from her own closet: One of my occupations is going to non-profit auctions, and bid spotting for the auctioneer. I need to look great and have comfortable clothes to...
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Learn simple jewelry repair for free
I like learning new things, especially for free. I was researching online about how to repair jewelry and came across a website by Esslinger, a company that sells watchmaker and jewelry supplies,...
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Wearable robot could replace wheelchair
A new invention by EKSO Bionics Inc., San Francisco, offers the wheelchair bound an Ekso suit, basically a wearable robot that gives torc to joints so people can stand as well as walk. Take a look:...
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Free Swaps in action – what a 16 year old with a video camera can do
Ever wanted to see what a Free Gift Swap or Free Stuff Swap looks like in action? Here’s a video my daughter, then 16 years old, created to show how a Free Gift Swap works:...
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How introverts can change the world for the better
Many books are written on how to put your extroverted self out there to be better, stronger, faster! so it’s great to find a book with a different take on how to help give voice to those on the more...
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Purple/blue crinkle top flatters curvy figures
Margaret Kumma talks about clothes she loves from her own closet that flatter her curvy shape: What I love about this blouse are the colors, the crinkle fabric, the shape, and the pleated front and 28″...
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Goji Berry: chinese shrub provides delicious berries
Wolfberry or Goji berry is a yummy anti-oxidant berry on an easy to grow vine. We’ve got our vine bungee-corded to a metal pole with a curved plant hanger on each side, but you can run this vine up...
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Tops designed to flatter women 40+!
PRACTICAL is the operative word for this new clothing company, and ATTRACTIVE is the operative word for these new tops! Covered Perfectly is a clothing company started by Pauline Durban, because she...
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Street lamps powered by algae eat CO2
French Bio Chemist Pierre Calleja discovered that Micro Algae eats CO2 – i.e. car exhaust – and then uses that energy power to create light. This technology was recently tested in a parking lot to...
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10 tips to a zero waste household
Our family has worked the reduce/reuse/recycle mantra and gone from weekly to bi monthly garbage collection, and we were feeling pretty good about that. When a neighbor friend of mine said that she...
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Healing for transgenerational trauma
There’s a new way to approach the healing of trauma. Collective trauma happens to groups of people through war, disease, terrorist attack, natural disasters, mass shootings, and attempted genocide....
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14-year-old scientist works to clean drugs out of drinking water
Maria Elena Grimmett, a 14 year old who is a noted research scientist, has won awards, published articles and more on the subject of removing ground water contaminants. As she watched pesticides being...
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Back-to-school theme song?
Here’s a back to school song to get your kids motivated: a music video created to inspire school attendance by and for the kids of the Oakland school district, filmed at the La Escuelita Elementary...
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Supple fabric feels great, looks great on curves
Linda found a line of tailored soft tops that fit her curves: I am modeling an open-collar casual top with cuffed sleeves made of micro-modal fabric. The top is part of a classic line designed by...
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Milk crate toilet and other urban living/farming ideas
This urban farm in LA shows how one couple is growing their own fresh vegetables and fruit trees, raising chickens, and composting. They also have a solar food dryer, show how to make your own outdoor...
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Hypnotherapy helps change brain hardware
Humans only use a small percentage of our brains. That’s because 7% of our brain goes to conscious thought, and 93% to subconscious. Our subconscious is our processing hardware used for things like...
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Tarp provides rainwater for drinking, plus hammock cover
Here’s a tarp that can be set up that provides a hassle-free way to collect pure drinking water when camping. The surface can be used not only as a backpacking tarp to add weather protection for...
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All five tastes in one berry: Schisandra Vine
The Chinese name for Schisandra is wu-wei-zi, which means “five taste-fruits” or “five flavor herb” because the fruits contain all five flavors: sweet, sour, bitter, pungent and salty. Sucking on a dry...
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