May 2011
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Oakland Represented Everything Fitness Can Do
The Oakland Running Festival wrapped up almost a week ago now, but that doesn’t make it old news by any means.
Much like your body needs to recover from such an output, and your mind needs some time to let the achievement sink in, the community and the masses have needed a week or so to let the Big Picture develop and assess just how impactful this event has become.
That assessment...
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Nestle sees no point in fighting child labor
For those of us little guys out there fighting gallantly to save the world, it’s just gut-wrenching to see a major player step forward and say, “Meh…it’s not our problem.”
So what do we do about Nestle? The packaged foods conglomerate whose last great idea was peddling litter-in-waiting and its accompanying junk food up the Amazon in a barge, is now suggesting that...
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Greenlight Apparel: Change from Within a Triple...
This article first appeared on Triple Pundit on March 19, 2011, was written by Ryan Chamberlain, and appears as part of a series on sustainability in the health and wellness industry, curated by Becky Eisen, Dana Ledyard, Izabel Loinaz. Follow along with the series here.
If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em…then beat ‘em. That’s one way of defining the strategy of Greenlight Apparel: Join a...
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Greenlight Apparel's mission in India and Vietnam
This past December, we decided to invite US Half Marathon Founder Ryan Dawkins and a good friend, Ryan Chamberlain to accompany us on our year end tour of our charity partners in Asia — the endpoint of Greenlight’s mission in India and Vietnam.
It’s a completely different experience to listen to a six year old boy tell you how he’s been trafficked five different times as...
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25,000 Long Beach Marathon Runners to Fight Child...
Simple choice of activist outfitter produces funds to end human trafficking and slavery.
When the 25,000 participants of the Long Beach International City Bank Marathon and Half Marathon begin to perspire their way through this weekend’s events, they’ll be doing more than striving for personal best times – their sweat will be stopping sweatshops.
By partnering with clothing vendor Greenlight...
