What happens when you have a vacant lot in a city? Rather than leave the space empty, North Chicago is turning vacant lots into pop-up gardens. According to a Nation Swell article by Kathleen O’Brian, “North Chicago Vacant Lots Turn Into Pop-Up Gardens,” a local resident, Lamonda Joy, has taken…
On NationSwell a couple of years ago, they posed the question, “Why are Tons of Oyster Shells Being Dumped Onto Louisiana’s Coast?” Little did I know, oyster shells are being recycled in an attempt to restore the shoreline in Louisiana. According to the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, since the…
The Dress a Girl Around the World program is sponsored by the organization Hope 4 Women International. The program has provided over 300,000 dresses for girls around the world. Participants sew a dress out of cotton fabric for a young girl to wear. Often, these are the only new dresses that…
Getting involved with organizations that wish to strike out poverty is a noble mission. In order to understand why so many people are concerned with the plight of those living in poverty, it’s important to first answer the question, “What is poverty? The World Bank defines poverty this way: “Poverty…
*This is a reprint of the article I wrote for Equanimity Magazine, “From Start to Finish” profiling an organization I’m involved with, J.B. Dondolo. I wanted to take a moment and introduce you to a pet project of mine.* Whenever you start a project, you generally intend see it through to…
It’s been a good little while since I’ve posted on Activism My Way, and while I’d like to have a great reason for this for you, I don’t. I love the idea of this blog, and I want to spend more time with it, but I’m thinking that I’d like…
Over at Moms Clean Air Force, there’s a great discussion going on about how natural gas development impacts our environment. Check it out at: Natural Gas Development And Air Pollution < Moms Clean Air Force. Clean air is something we should all be concerned with.
It may sound like a sensational headline, but over at Salon, Alecia Phonesavanh shared her story, “A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son.” What’s particularly heart wrenching about this story is that the family had to sit there and endure the fact that their baby was crying…
Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit organization that I have actually worked for. I helped to build a house in 2011 through their Women’s Build program. They are a great organization to be involved with. You can see me playing amateur electrician in the image to the right. If you’re…
For many parents, ultrasound or delivery room news involves a definitive “Congratulations, it’s a girl!” or “You have a boy!” However, for some parents, even after birth, a child’s sex is harder to determine as the baby has characteristics from both sexes. Here is the definition of “intersex” for those unfamiliar…
