Will Allen Writes About The Food Revolution

Will Allen, an urban farmer and an upcoming keynote speaker at Marion Institute’s Bioneers by the Bay Conference, has written an article in the Boston Globe about the need for a revolution in our food delivery system.

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Weekly Audit: A Tale of Two Economies

Read more about the two economies we now have in the U.S. in this week’s Audit. Why is Wall Street still living the high life?

Weekly Mulch: A Bipartisan Climate Bill

This week’s Mulch rounds up the latest news about Senators Kerry (D-MA) and Graham’s (R-SC) bipartisan partnership on climate change and prospects for Copenhagen.

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The Rainforest Hits 1,000 Fans.

In just two and a half days, The Rainforest, a project of The Rainforest Alliance, and run by Common Sense NMS, has already hit 1,000 fans.

James Boyce Writes For Daily Kos Greenroots Tonight.

Daily Kos Greenroots, a group created to write blogs on the environment, invited Common Sense founder James Boyce to join and contribute. Today was his first post, Know Thy Enemy.

James Boyce Discusses Public Option Please

James Boyce will be talking about the Public Option Please campaign on the Mario Solis Marich Show today at 6:20 p.m. EST.  The show can be streamed at gotomario.com.

Weekly Diaspora: Moving Immigration Reform Forward

This week’s Diaspora highlights Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), who “presented his key principles for comprehensive immigration reform” at a rally in D.C., the  thousands who were there to support CIR, a rally in Nevada, the idea that resistance to reform is based not in national security but in national cultural identity, the campaign to highlight CNN’s hypocrisy toward Latinos, and one aspect of the approaching Census count and how it affects the immigrant community right now.

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Marion Institute & Bioneers in the Boston Globe

The Boston Globe has written an article about the upcoming Bioneers by the Bay conference. Hosted by Marion Institute, this environmental conference promises to be an exciting 3 days filled with keynote speakers, workshops, film screenings and more!

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Weekly Pulse: Finance Committee (Finally) Passes Health Bill

Yesterday, the Senate Finance Committee finally passed its health care reform proposal by a vote of 14-9. As expected, the bill contains no public option. Now the all the health bills have passed their respective committees the debate moves back behind closed doors where party leaders will craft the legislation that Congress will actually vote on.

Now that the bill has cleared all the committees, it’s up to the Democrats to decide whether there will be a public option in the final bill.

Read more of this week’s Pulse here…

The Rainforest Is Live.

Working with our client, Rainforest Alliance, today we launched The Rainforest on Facebook, a worldwide gathering spot for people interested in the preservation and protection of the world’s rainforests.