Green Acre Radio: The Just Garden Project is part of a network of efforts to improve food choices for people often forced to accept less-healthy ways of feeding themselves and their families.
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Forterra, a renamed conservancy non-profit, unveils a new program with enterprises as varied as Molly Moon's Ice Cream, the Seattle Sounders, and Pearl Jam.
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Donations this year were up 70 percent for Crosscut, and way up for the Seattle Foundation campaign.
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The Seattle Foundation's GiveBIG day is today, expiring at midnight. It's a great way to help Crosscut's mission of producing quality journalism, and your gift is matched by a special fund. We have $3,000 to go to meet our goal of doubling last year's amount.
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On one recent spring morning, Jean Godden found both in the same Seattle locale.
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A Seattle artist transforms the challenge of driving less into the joy of Undriving - and gives undrivers something to show for it.
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As the Legislature struggles with budget issues, people need to speak up for protecting the services that many people rely upon. An expert offers advice, drawing on Occupy Wall Street's tactics.
READ MORE | 4 COMMENTSSeveral events this month suggest the depth of Seattle's writing talent, and raise questions about why there is so much good poetry here.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWCivic giving? Amazon's attention seems to be focused just about any place other than philanthropy.
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A locally based coffee company hopes that customers will look at the effort to clean up Puget Sound and say, "We'll drink to that."
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An innovative class is helping 6th and 7th graders learn about cooking from scratch, with healthy, local foods.
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The presence of survivors and families provided far more meaning than the game between Seattle and Oakland. Among those honored at the game were the parents of a young American woman, Taylor Anderson, who was teaching in Japan and died after taking her students to high ground.
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Some reflections on Crosscut's evolution.
READ MORE | 1 COMMENTSHis Institute for Brain Science, which just got a large new infusion, is competing in a Super Bowl of scientific research.
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One challenge to saving the historic Volunteer Park Conservatory is that it's tiny. Is its gem-size an asset, or does it have to grow to be self-sustaining and survive the budget cuts ahead? Citizens meet to brainstorm options.
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Brodeur writes, "Just a few weeks after the Vatican started looking into the activities of the umbrella group representing some 57,000 American nuns, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) showed it had smaller fish to fry: The Girl Scouts of America (GSA)."
He had an aversion to publicity, preferring to do good quietly in many ways.
The Oregonian reports that it's "the largest single gift in its 39-year history."
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