Acting and Activism: A Q&A with Meryl Streep
One Earth
February 27th, 2012
Meryl Streep is renowned for her ability to transform herself into a character. But few know about her real-life roles as a transformative environmental health activist, geothermal energy pioneer, and veggie-pushing mother.
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Ode Magazine 
February 3rd, 2011
Local currencies can help create sustainable growth and healthy communities.
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Portland Press Herald
July 23rd, 2010
. . . and other earthly delights from the garden of Julia Davis and Andy McLeod, who are taking the local-food movement to a whole new level in the name of love.
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YES! Magazine
July 21st, 2010
Bartering for your breakfast: One step closer to a local economy?
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Green Music Group 
June 9th, 2010
The organization has issued an open challenge: eat locally this week and you could win two free concert passes.
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Yes! Magazine
August 23rd, 2011
Declining food quality, degraded farmland, an aging population of farmers, and an increasingly tight hold on food production by corporations have inspired a growing movement.
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YES! Magazine
August 5th, 2010
In a living economy, the way wind turbines are funded and owned is just as innovative as the technology that runs them.
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Pepsi
July 21st, 2010
Robert DuBois and Aaron Zueck are “potlucking across America” in one hundred days, and they’re doing it on bicycles, collecting stories of the local food movement from coast to coast.
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Ode Magazine
June 29th, 2010
Yard sharing is an arrangement between people to share skills and gardening resources; space, time, strength, tools or skills, in order to grow food as locally as possible, to make neighborhoods resilient, kids healthy and food much cheaper!
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CNN
June 3rd, 2010
CNN’s Kristie Lu Stout meets Margaret Xu, a chef who is pioneering the farm-to-table movement in Hong Kong.
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