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Supporting Local Independent Bookstores Is Important

Sure, online retailers, by volume, can probably offer some lower prices and you don’t have to leave your couch. But online retailers are just that… ecommerce specialists not booksellers. Folks at local books stores are passionate, knowledgeable bibliophiles. Local independent bookstores and their staff serve communities and individuals, personally. They are anchors in communities providing …

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Women In The Spotlight
Vanessa Garrison, T Morgan Dixon

As part of this blog’s “Women In the Spotlight” series we are featuring a duo, Vanessa Garrison and T. Morgan Dixon, Co-founders of the internationally impactful GirlTREK Black women’s health initiative. They are both, in their own right, dynamic change agents, entrepreneurs and sought after public speakers. Vanessa is a volunteer Advisory Board member of …

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Women In The Spotlight
Melissa Lanz

Melissa is dedicated to happiness as a daily lifestyle. She founded The Fresh 20 with the understanding that the path to health and happiness runs through the kitchen. Her healthful menu plans help thousands of people across Northern America every week to get wholesome food on their tables. Melissa is also a lifestyle coach focusing …

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Women In The Spotlight
Elena Christopoulas

Elena Christopoulos is a Climate Scientist selling vintage clothing  “and fabulous things.”  She is also a public speaker, writer, Sustainability Consultant .  In 2000 Elena founded Christopoulos Management Consulting (ECMC). Elena is a Certified Sustainability Practitioner who has managed more than 40 environmental and political campaigns worldwide. Through ECMC she has created over 500,000 green …

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GirlTREK – Walking For Healthy Outcomes

According to the GirlTREK website the organization is “the largest health movement and nonprofit organization for Black women and girls in the United States.” Founders Vanessa Garrison and T. Morgan Dixon met in Los Angeles as college students in 1996. They say they bonded over 2PAC, Nikki Giovanni and their mutual inability to say no …

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Women In The Spotlight
Leigh Adams

Leigh Adams is a former children’s librarian and outdoor education teacher who is passionate about providing learners of all ages the opportunity to explore and acquire new skills. She disseminates her creativity through instruction, demonstration and implementation of an array of hands-on fine arts crafts and environmentally sustainable gardening and landscaping projects. Leigh is a …

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Leigh Adams
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Helsinki-A City With No Homeless

That’s right, Helsinki Finland. According to Mat Trewern of BBC Radio Manchester, the city has used a groundbreaking program to virtually eradicate homelessness. According to the newscaster one thing that stands out as unusual at Helsinki’s central train station on a bitter cold night is that are no homeless sleeping…. And no one begging. And …

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Women In The Spotlight
Roslyn Young-Daniels

Roslyn Young-Daniels is Founder and Director of The Daniels Network, LLC, a marketing solutions and strategic insight consultancy serving the pharmaceutical and health care sectors. She is also President and Founder of, Black Health Matters (BHM) launched in 2003 and the  BHM website,  a video centric educational network that provides health care professionals and consumers …

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Roslyn Young-Daniels
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