About kugelgirl

kugelgirl

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Location:

Santa Barbara (USA)

Joined on:

11/28/07

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Media & Special Events

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  Environment

  response to  Maywa Montenegro's post Black and Green

  Brown Green Movement

  This is a great story about a very inspirational man. At our Casa de la Raza Center we have a long history of standing up for the rights of Latino workers and environmentalism at the same time. We have a "Green Gardener" program, which teaches the techniques of green gardeing and makes the services of the gardeners who take the classes more marketable. Another program my friend started there is a self-sustaining bike repair center at for people who use it as their main source of transportation. That program is really thriving. Our center is in the industrial area of town and the environmental issues there have a big impact on the health of the people who live and work here, so I really appreciate the work of people like Jones, and groups like GOOD who promote what he and the Ella Baker Center are doing. Thanks guy!

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  Commented on April 9, 2008 by - kugelgirl

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  Culture

  response to  Zach Frechette's post Project 010

  Good idea outsourcing

  I'm curious how much this project stems from genuine curiosity at what we'll send in, and how much of it is a creative block on the GOOD staff's behalf. If it's mostly the latter I applaud you on your positive marketing of project idea outsourcing.

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  Commented on April 9, 2008 by - kugelgirl

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  Media

  Invest in Media

  I really liked this article and I whole heartedly agree with the sentiment. I used to work for an online encyclopedia (not the free one everyone knows of, hence the used to work for...) and we switched from using AP wire feeds to one based in Korea to cut costs.

  It was very strange to see headlines poping up on breaking news at the New York Times and BBC and be told to wait for the story to be reported on in South Korea so we could spend the least amount of time on adapting the story before posting it on our site. When we did get the wire story it was often filled with sentences like "according to the New York Times," or "it was reported by the BBC" so it felt silly waiting for someone elses' report on the same article I read hours ago, but I knew they were getting the report cheaper from Korea.

  Any way, I agree that a lot of the news that the average American sees on TV or hears about on the radio is such a tiny fraction of what is being covered by international media groups. Many U.S. media companies don't seem to think we'll pay to find out about other parts of the world. It's not that they don't thnk we can handle too much more information. If so they wouldn't run the ticker headlines, ball game scores and stock report during an exclusive interview with whoever is big at the moment.

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  Posted on April 9, 2008 by - kugelgirl

• Invest in International News

  Authored by Alisa Miller - 4 votes