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How This Novice Crocheter Does Good

Posted in Children, Homeless, Orphans, tagged , , , , , , on May 17, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Who would’ve imagined? I just started learning to crochet (still feeling a bit like I have ten thumbs), and I’m already able to put my new hobby to use. Toward really good use! Here’s one of my first projects! I know it may not look like much, but enough of those squares will make one [...]

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Week 48: Really Cool Holiday Stuff

Posted in Animal Conservation & Welfare, Arts and Culture, carbon footprint, Children, Eco-Friendly, Education, Energy-Efficiency, Environment, Friends, Gender Equality, Gift Giving, Homeless, Hunger, Micro-financing, Plastic, Shopping, tagged , , , , , , , , on November 30, 2010 |

Not long ago, the mere mention of socially-conscious gifts or green giving would likely provoke offers of “let’s not exchange gifts this year” by adults, tantrums by children. At best, it meant a packet of cards with flowers pressed in waxed paper, or a lamp made from popsicle sticks (no offense to either). But now, [...]

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Week 43: Winner of the Slacktivist Impact Challenge

Posted in Animal Conservation & Welfare, Eco-Friendly, Environment, Homeless, Hunger, Micro-volunteering, Random Acts of Kindness, volunteering, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »

After due consideration, and review of all the votes for our four finalists, we’re happy to announce the final results of the Slacktivist Impact Challenge. So, the results show that winner is … … … … the winner is … … … … the winner is … … Aw heck, we just couldn’t do it! [...]

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Week 42: Speaking as a Drop in the Ocean

Posted in Children, Children - Chronically Ill, click-to-donate, Eco-Friendly, Energy-Efficiency, Environment, Homeless, volunteering on October 21, 2010 | 7 Comments »

Still a little bit backwards as I try to catch up after this flu. Week 41 (from last week) will be posted shortly. Tuesday evening, I had the privilege to speak to an audience at my local Toastmasters meeting. It’s not something that I do often enough, I still fear public speaking. But when there [...]

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Week 34: Spontaneous Impact Weekend

Posted in Animal Conservation & Welfare, carbon footprint, click-to-donate, Clothing, Homeless, Human Rights, Random Acts of Kindness, volunteering on August 30, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Dark clouds, spitting rain and an uncomfortable chill were our companions for morning coffee on Saturday. It was pretty dispiriting. Did we really have to go outside and get things done? By the time we finished our morning ablutions and discussions on the day’s plan, the clouds had cleared a bit — in the sky, [...]

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Week 20: Retrospective

Posted in Children - Chronically Ill, click-to-donate, Eco-Friendly, Education, Energy-Efficiency, Environment, Homeless, Micro-financing, Random Acts of Kindness, Search-to-donate, Water conservation on May 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »

I admit it. There have been times when we’ve said, “what have we gotten ourselves into?!!” “Life Happens,” and not always at moments when it’s convenient. Twice during the first 20 weeks we’ve had to scale back our expectations due to illness, household “disaster” or just plain fatigue. But, we’re proud to say that we [...]

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Week 4: A Fine Line Between “Them” and “Us”

Posted in Clothing, Homeless, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 31, 2010 | 2 Comments »

The way was packed. I ran interference while Nils carried. We wove our way through hundreds of others like us on this Saturday morning toting large shopping bags of goods. Our goal, the homeless shelter called “Die Gruft” (website in German only), in the former catacombs of Mariahilfer Church, is smack dab in the middle [...]

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Week 4: It’s Awfully Cold Outside

Posted in Homeless, tagged , , , on January 25, 2010 |

I’m often grateful that I work at home, but on days like today, particularly so. This morning I felt very bad for Nils as he buttoned his heavy overcoat, wrapped has navy cashmere scarf around his neck and donned his hand-knitted wool cap to brave the weather to head to his office. It’s beyond freezing outside [...]

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