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Videos
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What do foods have to do with Breast Cancer? Sarah Carter and The Breast Cancer Fund offers some quick tips on how you can take care of your health and body simply by the foods you eat.
Articles
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What Produce Is In Season Right Now?
Many people feel like the most important thing you should look for when grocery shopping is the "Organic" label. But what people don’t realize is something t... -
Mad Props - A Simple Ballot Proposition Primer for All 50 States
With the snarling of citizens, the buffoonery of political pundits, where can you get unbiased information?
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Type 2 Diabetes Doubles Among U.S. Children
Around the world, our children are dying from malnutrition and diarrhea. In this country, our children are dying from diseases caused by obesity.
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Who doesn't secretly love fast food? Here are some tips on how to eat healthy and watch your weight - especially as the holidays approach!
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Kingsley prison grows tons of food for poor
Camp Pugsley, the minimum security state prison camp near Kingsley, Michigan, generated over 18,000 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables for local food banks.
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There is a growing illicit market in Europe where migrant workers and work in 'slave-like situations', especially in the sex and farming industries.
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Like many New Yorkers, I remember a time when nearly everyone smoked. In 1950, Collier's reported that more than three-quarters of adult men smoked. This...
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Give Mother Earth a Gift This Holiday Season by Cooking Green.
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Where's That Meat From, Anyway? New Law Requires Label
Countless shops and grocery store chains are featuring local produce for their customers. Since not all of us can make it to a farmers’ market on a weekly...
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How our vegan diet made us ill
Holly Paige thought her family's food regime would boost their health – but stick-thin legs and rotten teeth made her think again.
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Grape Seed Extract Found To Kill Leukemia Cells In Laboratory Tests
An extract from grape seeds forces laboratory leukemia cells to commit cell suicide, according to researchers from the University of Kentucky.
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Tough Choices For America's Hungry
"Everything is high in sodium and trans fats ... and that's all we basically can afford. There's not enough assistance to eat healthy."
Events
- Fill the Food Bank 2009 Location: Los Angeles: The Fruit Gallery Juice Shop at 1 Westminster Ave (at the intersection of Venice Beach Boardwalk) Nationwide: Find a food bank in your town!
- Community Tree Planting Event Location: Highland Park Recreation Center 6150 Piedmont Ave Los Angeles, CA
- Food Forward on Veteran's Day Location: Atwater Village
- Food Forward Volunteer Opportunity Location: San Fernando Valley, San Gabriel Valley, the LA basin and neighboring areas
People
- thewiz26 Hollywood, CA
- raspberryreport New York, NY
- Perico429 MACON, GA
- doubleohthreeproductions
- emilyspiegel Wilmington, DE
- RajMithal
Blog posts
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Liquidity and Community (Matt Flannery)
Kiva has a pretty important software release in a couple of days. First, we are releasing a "community" section of the site. The purpose of the section is clear enough -- to foster a sense of...
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NEXTAID Youth With A Vision: Community Center And Children's Residential Village
THE VILLAGE Intended to showcase natural building design, the earth-friendly sustainable village in Dennilton, South Africa will serve as a beacon of hope in a community that has been devastated b...
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Updates from NextAid's Africa Projects
Dear NextAid Supporter, I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself and thank you for your ongoing support of NextAid. As a grassroots organization, we truly rely on the involvement an...
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Causecast stole my idea. They cast their target right on my most important cause - my meaning in life. I just don't know how they changed history to make it seem like they had the notion first. If ...
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Site Update: Hope Center Clinic
The new Hope Center Clinic in Sikoro, Mali officially opened in June 2008. The incredible Dr. Annie De Groot oversees the KCA-funded clinic, and recently sent us her latest update from the field: ...
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This year was my first Thanksgiving as a full on raw vegan! As the only raw foodist in my family, I made whipped "potatoes", mushroom gravy, lemon-garlic bisque, and cranberry relish. All raw vegan...
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Earthkeepers: The Real Green Party
If the kitchen is the heart of a home, then a garden can surely be the heart of a community. Grow Food Party Crew believes so, and they aim to spread that gospel to the rest of Ventura with Growing...
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I have said it before, I want to be more than a consuming force in this world. I have no desire to sit around typing my opinion about the world and ways we could fix it, without actually getting ou...
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Bipolar Disorder - are you or aren't you?
The question remains the same, are you or aren't you one of those who suffer this type of mental distress - mania and depression or bipolar disorder. In my way of experience, I had had a nervous te...
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Hello Causecast! I'm glad to be on this site and now I am going to make a big blog that I hope will support what everyone here stands for. First off, I want to talk about animals. There are man...
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Combating Dogfighting the Right Way
As someone who obsessively researches pit bulls, I am often deeply discouraged and overwhelmed by the stories of abuse and fighting. Today, I found a video from the Humane Society of the United Sta...
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Our entrenched industrialized farming system needs to be reformed, both through combating inhumane and harmful practices, and through promoting better alternatives. I recently visited Michigan S...
