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30 Days of Vegan - Day 3
- Posted on 11.08.09
Related causes: Animals, Health
Sunday, Nov. 8
Cranberry Juice
Protein powder, Wheatgrass powder, Flax seed
Peanut Butter
Strawberry Jelly
Wheat bread
Carrots
Quinoa w/ Apple Cider Vinegar, Lime juice and Chalula sauce
Tomato and Basil Soup
1 Slice Sourdough bread -
30 Days of Vegan - Day 2
- Posted on 11.07.09
Related causes: Animals, Health
Saturday, Nov. 7
Cranberry Juice
Protein powder, Wheatgrass powder, Flax seed
Whole wheat pasta
Sun Dried Tomato Sauce w/ pesto
Vegan cookies
Veev drinks, organic beer -
30 Days of Vegan - Day 1
- Posted on 11.07.09
Related causes: Animals, Health
Friday, Nov. 6
Peanut Butter
Strawberry Preserves
Wheat Bread
Coffee
Non-Dairy Creamer
Salad from Whole Foods
Pita Chips
Chipotle Salsa
Quinoa w/ lime juice
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There Is No Free Parking
- Posted on 07.15.09
Related causes: Community, Environment
There Is No Free Parking, by Stuart Donavan and David Seymour
http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/fp/There+free+parking/1747249/story.html
I found this article on free parking very fascinating (okay, reading that sentence again really does sound as crazy I thought it would).
The Montreal Gazette, writes about the cost of providing a free parking spot in terms of how we should be looking at it from a city-developing scale. Hardly exciting, but worth some valid thought. Residents living in cities feel they are entitled to affordable parking, or that by some law there must be SOME sort of free parking somewhere.
Growing up in Santa Barbara, I was raised to believe that parking in garages was always very cheap, and for the cost of slight inconvenience, you can park for free on a sidestreet. Paid parking in Goleta is unheard of. But going to school in Savannah GA, there is not a single free parking spot in the whole city. And ontop of meters at every spot, there's street sw...Read More -
Little Brother's growing up
- Posted on 07.13.09
Related causes: Community, Health
(Republished from the Causecast Blog- http://blog.causecast.org/)
Last week I was doing my morning run (and by "run," I mean walk halfway down the block and have 2 grilled cheese bagels sprinkled with smore's flavored protein powder), and down the block were two men crouching next to a company van. Did they hit something? Didn't look like it. Then I noticed two large paint buckets, one of them being poured out by one of the men. I moved a little closer and saw that the van was a carpet cleaning service, and the water they were dumping out was blue and foamy. They were dumping their waste cleaning chemicals down the storm drain! As I walked up faster and pulled out my iPhone from my pocket, the two men saw me and quickly got in and drove away before I could take a picture.
I'm still amazed at how people do something so clearly illegal in broad daylight in open public. How stupid could they be to do this in the suburbs and think no one would notice? Or how inconspicuous it looks...Read More
