December 2008
DecemberDec 30 Tuesday 08
We're Going to Blogging School
photo by Julie: Lucky's Warehouse by Furbish Co.
Recently, we started in earnest to learn all we can about the blogging world, including how to increase our site traffic so we can continue to offer GOforChange to our community and the wider world. Naturally, we enrolled …
DecemberDec 29 Monday 08
Baltimore Treasures
photo by: alyssa
A couple of years ago, I worked for a Poster Restoration Company and walked passed this impressive fence design every day. I knew nothing of its creator, but could tell that the posts are made from chunks of salvaged concrete. Natural builders have …
DecemberDec 23 Tuesday 08
Collective Cry
photo by: Fred Scharmen
Collective Cry is an online community of artists, activists and allies of social justice. They are dedicated to uplifting and providing healing to systemically oppressed communities through education, community development, economic development …
Playing for Change
Take 5 minutes in your day to watch this. It is one of the most beautiful and hopeful things I've seen in a while. What an amazing group of people. As their website says, Playing for Change is a multimedia movement created to …
EPA: Maryland
The Environmental Protection Agency has a way for you type in your area code and keep tabs on what businesses have regulations on pollution, hazardous waste sites, and other regulatory information. It's called Envirofacts
Stretch Your Body and Your Mind at the Bikram Yoga and Wellness Center
Founder and Director Sarah Ittmann teaches Bikram yoga . A series of 26 poses derived from Hatha principles, each one is done twice to help the body open up and come into openness and alignment. Bikram Choudhury designed these poses in his native India after a …
Collective Cry
photo by: Fred Scharmen
Collective Cry is an online community of artists, activists and allies of social justice. They are dedicated to uplifting and providing healing to systemically oppressed communities through education, community development, economic development …
ISky working for local solutions to global concerns
photo: unknown
ISky was created in 2007. With its offices located in Takoma Park, Maryland, 1Sky is helping raise the bar for leadership on climate change action in the context of the 2008 elections and the new Obama Administration. Their goal is to "create bold federal …
SpringField Farm Redux
photos courtesy of: Springfield Farms
Remember Springfield Farm ? We wrote a post about them almost a year ago now. One of our CollectiveX members went for a visit a couple weeks ago in search of free range organic meat and wanted to tell us about her encouraging …
Edible Eco-Flooring!!?
Chris Moline, a Residential Group Manager of Carpet One Flooring of Alexandria Virginia ate a piece of Marmoleum yesterday afternoon to prove its truly green properties. Lets just hope its durability doesn't complicate his digestive system, hmm....let me know how that …
The Clean Coal "?": March On March 2nd
photos courtesy of: GreenPeace
Dear Friends,
There are moments in a nation's--and a planet's--history when it may be necessary for some to break the law in order to bear witness to an evil, bring it to wider attention, and push for its correction. We think such a time …
What I Have Learned About Learning from Experience
photo: sketch by Julie Gabrielli
When I was a brand-new parent, my friend Mara O'Connell gave me the best advice I've gotten in my life. I confessed to her how overwhelmed I felt with the responsibility of caring for such a precious, helpless creature. I had so much to …
Fun is Found in Restoring the Bay
photos courtesy of: VoiCes
"VoiCeS , which began in 2004, creates a deeper understanding of the Bay and the efforts to restore it. This professionally-taught, two-part program, meets each week (for eight weeks) and includes field trips and participant-led community …