Altruist Planet

I didn’t fill it up!
I was cleaning last week for a playgroup I was hostessing and a miracle took place. I am actually not quite sure why we stay at home Mom’s torture ourselves like that, you know by inviting people over. You spend two days cleaning top to bottom a house that […]

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April 22, 1970 was the first ever Earth Day celebration. It has been 39 years since that day, and back then environmentalist were considered fringe, hippies, granola, treehuggers.
Now environmentalism is mainstream. Everyone is going green. From magazines to talk shows, documentary movies to green networks on cable. We recycle and […]

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My husband and I stayed up late last night to watch the Democratic debates we DVR’d. After they were over we looked at each other and said, “What a waste of time.”
Pathetic.
It is time we finally admitted that the politicians, the networks, the hosts…think we are idiots.
Kudos to Senator Obama for repeatedly trying to […]

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On April 8th, HBO is premiering The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo. The documentary was created by Lisa F. Jackson to tell the stories of women in Eastern Congo:
“Since 1998 a brutal war has been raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Over 4 million people have died. And there are the uncountable […]

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Yes I did. And I didn’t even hurt myself!
I was a county delegate for Barack Obama a few weeks ago. It was 10 hours of sitting in an auditorium listening to party insiders and hootin’ and hollerin’. Overall it was pretty educational of how our electoral system works. I certainly learned […]

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I posted about this in February, but I wanted to remind everyone that tonight is Earth Hour. At 8PM turn off all your lights and appliances that you don’t need. Unplug your cell phones and computers. Play games with your kids by candle light, go for a walk, stargaze, catch up with your […]

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Flex some political muscle!
Take five minutes to write or call your state Senators today, and tell them to support the International Violence Against Women Act S.2279. This bill was introduced by Senator Joe Biden and Senator Richard Lugar in October 2007. The Women Thrive Worldwide website summarizes the bill this way:
“The International Violence Against Women […]

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Hello to my fellow altruists! It as been a journey, but I think my family is finally coming out the other side of a seriously yucky stomach virus…so back to the do gooding we go!
Next week, the Congo Global Action Conference is taking place in Washington D.C. So if you live in or around Washington, […]

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The Breast Cancer Site is raising money to give mammograms to under served communities of women. With a click of your mouse their advertisers will donate money to giving women in need this early detection life saver!
“Your click on the “Click Here to Give - it’s FREE” button helps fund free mammograms for women in […]

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Yesterday Drew Barrymore was on Oprah discussing the United Nations World Food Program that she has been a part of for a few years. She has become an ambassador and is in the process of making a documentary about the Programme. The executive director of the World Food Programme Josette Sheeran joined drew on the […]

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Vegetarian, lacto-ovo, vegan…you’ve just barely wrapped your head around what the difference between these terms were, right? Well now, you can add freegan to the list.
Freeganism has less to do with what you don’t eat, and more to do with what you will eat…like day old bagels you find in a local shops […]

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Is it just me, or do any of you ever have these moments during your day where you are plodding along taking care of business and something you see stops you and causes you to wonder how we, as a society, ever got here?
I had one of those moments the other day. I was […]

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