Over the weekend, I attended a cooking show fund raiser for the non-profit, From The Garden to the Table. This organization focuses on closing the gap of nutrition inequity in low-income communities. Not only are many low-income children deprived of healthy eating options, they are often without the understanding and knowledge of the [...]
Poke London has come up with a creative way to encourage giving. They’ve created the Global Rich List, where you can input your salary and see where your prosperity falls in the global perspective.
Even someone living the US poverty level– $10,400 for 2008— lands in the top 13% of the world.
The site is moving people [...]
What a wonderful way to start my week! Back in August, I made my first kiva loan to Mrs. Sopath Mao in Cambodia. Less than one year later, and she’s paid back the loan! So I made another loan, to a Women’s Group in Uganda. Microlending is the most exciting and [...]
apparently it would take three mother earth’s if everyone lived my lifestyle. The American Public Media jumped on the 2.0 and the green bandwagon at the same time and ended up with this site, to help you calculate your impact on the earth. I don’t buy-in to their algorithm, but it’s a good [...]
this is a poster from one of the middle school teams from the World Affairs Competition. I had an incredible time volunteering as a judge for this event. the world savvy organization is a non-profit that works to fill a gap in education by providing resources for teachers to more easily bring [...]
Yoga was incredible today. We used a beautiful donated space at the James Howell Studio. Megan, yoga instructor and YB advisor, led with the theme of “playful”. We twisted ourselves into cows, dogs, puppies, cobras, lizards, and peacocks. My body feels amazing.
More importantly, I was inspired by the continued support that Yoga [...]
I love ideas that are simple and powerful— i.e. Google providing free phone numbers and voicemail to all the homeless individuals in San Francisco. Free email is not enough, as internet access and know-how is limited to those truly in need. I’m glad that the company charged with organizing the world’s information can understand there [...]
I came across a UK non-profit that connects in-debt college students with both corporate sponsors and charity projects. Although they haven’t gotten off the ground, I just love the idea. Corporations “sponsor” recent graduates to participate in charity or volunteer work around the world. The graduates use the money to pay off school debt. It’s [...]
“Suman Dodia, a pregnant, baby-faced 26-year-old, said she will buy a house with the $4,500 she receives from the British couple whose child she’s carrying. It would have taken her 15 years to earn that on her maid’s monthly salary of $25.”
I figured the time would come. It started with textiles, then IT and BPO. [...]
my car emits 8,902 lbs carbon dioxide per year. ick. I found a site that sells offsets to your carbon footprint, which you can calculate on their site. The purchase of this ‘offset’ funds reduction of carbon emissions through clean energy projects.
calculate your carbon footprint here.
The theme of this weekend? New things.
It started off Friday night when I shed my city snobbishness and went to Oakland for a party. It wasn’t so bad. Although, I did have some incentive as Jeff promised to go to the Visual Aid art auction with me on Saturday. Visual [...]
I’m spending the day in Berkeley, training some of my mentors, listening to the band play outside, and smiling from ear to ear. Why? Not only is it a beautiful Friday in California, but because I got my birthday wish– two laptops for two children. One in a developing country around the world and another [...]
freerice.com is a fun site that allows you to play vocabulary games for a great prize– feeding someone who’s hungry! The largest food aid agency, the United Nations World Food Program, distributes the rice to people in over 75 countries. The advertisers, who appear in unobtrusive thumbnails on the bottom of the screen, are [...]
it’s in two-and-a-half weeks!
Please pitch in for my birthday present. I’m raising money for a laptop for a child in a developing nation. I’m 54% of the way there!
You can donate here.
Thank you to Terry Chay, Blair Johns, Scott Tabbbey, “Spaceguy”, Rosalind Robertson, Robert Steburg, Dominick Valentic, Leon Bacud, and Jason & Rebecca Jones [...]
Yoga Bear is looking for a local engineer to help us maintain and improve our site (www.yogabear.org). The site is in django and we’re looking for someone who is willing to make bi-weekly updates. We have meetings roughly once a month where we eat ice cream and talk about changing the world. [...]
Actually, two laptops.
One will go to a child in a developing nation. The other will be delivered to me (!) where my friends and I will play on it for a couple of days, take some pictures, then give it to a student in the bay area.
As we sit here on our computers all day [...]
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