Filed under: Sustainability
A short article at Huffington Post. As you know, we have plenty of “green” cleaning products for sale at the coop! Even good ol’ vinegar… in bulk!
The next board meeting will be on Monday, August 23rd, at the location below. If you’d like to be on the agenda, please contact the store ASAP. We’ll have expansion updates and committee reports (Did you know that there are two active committees right now? By-laws and board candidate training! Stay tuned for the community service committee!). We will plan our yearly Board retreat and the annual meeting. We have a full Board right now, with many enthusiastic folks contributing their knowledge and experience to the governance of your coop.
The meeting starts at 7 pm. Here is the Centro System Map if you’d like to take the bus. It’s a nice walk from downtown, too!
Filed under: Community Service
Jamie Oliver started an anti-obesity project in West Virginia. He connects not cooking at home with obesity and food-related diseases. Very interesting, check it out.
Read about this year’s challenge at the A Better World By Design conference. It is to solve the problems of food deserts in Providence, RI, in a way that is replicable in other places. Our proposed location on East Genesee has the potential to help out folks on the north side of that road, some of whom are elderly and have to cross Erie Boulevard on foot to get to Aldi’s (according to our friend at Meals on Wheels). Not everyone has a car! And in our future of quickly depleting oil reserves, even fewer of us will.
Filed under: Sustainability
Dara O’Rourke, professor of environmental and labor policy at UC Berkeley, has founded a company that rates the health, environmental and social impact of various consumer goods. The website, Good Guide, rates products so that you can choose those that reflect your values. For example, I just rated my shampoo, Nexxus. It gets a whopping 3.9 out of ten points:
Health 4.0
Environment 3.3
Society 4.3
Well! In my defense, I chose it because PETA had it listed on it’s cruelty-free list a few years back. Time to change brands… and ratings websites!
