Archive for the ‘Charity’ Category

• Planet-friendly fashions

  Friday, February 3rd, 2012

  by Blair Madole CU’s INVST program and Un Mundo are hosting an eco-friendly, sustainable clothing fashion show at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 4 at the Absinthe House.   The proceeds from this event will help students in the INVST community studies program travel to Managua, Nicaragua, this summer to learn about the effects of economic globalization. Proceeds [...]

• A greener MLK day

  Monday, January 16th, 2012

  Across the country today, Americans are honoring the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., by participating in community service projects. (Even the president and his family are doing it.)

• More than just cookies

  Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

  Boulder County Girl Scouts greening the globe

  by Charmaine Ortega Getz

  As a Junior Girl Scout, my troop’s walk to a manicured suburban park was called a “hike.” We were taught how to bake cookies from packaged mixes and what to do for someone who’d fainted. And, of course, we sold those famous boxes of cookies mass-produced elsewhere.

  It was a far cry from the Girl Scouts of the early 1900s. Back then, members commonly learned “nature skills” to use while forest camping, telegraphy and how to put a tourniquet on a spurting wound [...]

• Send money to Haitian orphanage via Olomomo

  Monday, January 18th, 2010

  Justin Perkins, founder of Boulder’s Olomomo Nut Company and contributor of Care2.com, is helping gather funds for his friend’s AIDS orphanage that collapsed from the earthquake in Haiti last week. Justin is raising money to help send his friend Luke Montgomery down to Haiti with supplies to help children at his orphanage. “Please consider donating [...]