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View Article“We’re just trying to save the environment”
In this inspiring little video produced by our friends at the Dogwood Alliance, you’ll see 10-year-old Cole and three of his friends travel from North Carolina to the KFC headquarters in Louisville, KY...
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The Good Stuff — Episode 1: Take THAT, plastic bags!
What do Northern California and Brownsville, Texas have in common? A lot more than you might think! Did you know that if everyone in the United States tied their annual consumption of plastic bags...
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The Good Stuff — Episode 2: One Cool Kid
What can one person do? A lot! Just ask Cole! At just 8-years old, he organized his schoolmates to take on KFC. We hear it every day from people who are concerned about what’s happening to the...
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The Good Stuff — Episode 3: Getting Started
Know someone who says they’re too busy to reduce their waste? Or says it’s too hard? A very busy wife, mother and entrepreneur near Philly shares how she did it! Earlier this year, Annie spent a day...
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The Good Stuff — Episode 4: Fix it, don’t nix it!
“If you can’t fix it, you don’t really own it.” That’s the manifesto of the growing movement to make our Stuff repairable rather than disposable. And some people are going beyond repairing their Stuff...
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The Good Stuff — Episode 5: How You Show Up in the World
Being a citizen is about acting on our responsibility to stand up for the planet and other people. Being a citizen isn’t about where you were born or whether you have the right papers – it’s acting on...
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The Good Stuff — Episode 6: Don’t Just “Be the Change”- Make Change!
Being a changemaker is about intention AND action. In Part 2 of our special podcast accompanying The Story of Change, Annie talks with leading changemakers about how they do it. Hint: Start close to...
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The Good Stuff – Episode 7 – Workers as Owners
Getting the economy and the environment back on track. From corner bakeries to one of Spain’s largest companies, worker-owned co-ops around the world are providing an alternative model to business as...
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The Good Stuff — Episode 8: Annie on Climate Change and 5 Years of SOS
Our latest podcast turns the tables – or rather the microphone – on Annie as she’s interviewed by Jearlyn Steele of WCCO-AM in Minneapolis. On the heels of President Obama’s inaugural, Annie and...
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The Good Stuff — Episode 9: Kids Who Care challenge Crayola
If you laid all the Crayola plastic markers made each year end to end, they’d circle the earth three times – and they’re not recyclable. Some California kids are campaigning to change that – and in...
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The Good Stuff — Episode 10: The People Have the Power
Protecting our health from toxic pollution is too important a job to be left to scientists, govenment regulators or even professional environmental activists. Annie looks at two communities, half a...
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The Good Stuff — Episode 11: Girl Scout Cookies, Orangutans and Palm Oil
In 2007, two kids in Michigan set out to earn their Girl Scout Bronze Award by raising awareness about the endangered orangutan. They learned that the orangutans’ habitat is being destroyed to plant...
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