The Change

06/07/2017

- are you?

Open letter to the international community and parties to the Paris Agreement from U.S. state, local, and business leaders.

04/12/2017

Here's some deeply radical thought from the East Durham Pie Company - please share widely.

WHY DO LIVING WAGES MATTER TO YOU?
If you like pie, and you dig living wages, then East Durham Pie Company is worth checking out. Here they share their thoughts on the importance of paying a living wage. Please share widely.

04/06/2017

We know everyone does. But of all professions, surely teachers deserve a living wage? Here's to LEAP- Latino Educational Achievement Partnership - who know where it's at.

WHY ARE LIVING WAGES IMPORTANT TO YOU?
"Great Pre-K Teachers Deserve Fair Pay!", say the folks at LEAP- Latino Educational Achievement Partnership. We could not agree more. Please help spread the word. (OK, we're a day late - but life got in the way.)

03/22/2017

Pro tip: The Durham Living Wage project isn't just for coffee shops and (awesome!) branding outfits. Latino Community Credit Union is a certified living wage employer too...

WHY ARE LIVING WAGES IMPORTANT TO YOU?
The Latino Community Credit Union is a proud certified living wage employer, offering ethical financial products and education to empower communities.

03/15/2017

Like us, the Durham Living-Wage Project is indeed a Durham Living Wage Project-certified employer...

WHY DO LIVING WAGES MATTER TO YOU?
Marta Perrupato—PT Coordinator for Durham Living Wage Project—spreading the word about why a fair wage is important. And yes, Durham Living Wage is a living wage employer...

03/08/2017

If you need a good reason to go and drink beer, howsabout the fact that Fullsteam Brewery pays a living wage and are willing to shout about it?

Just a few reasons why living wages are important to us. We’re honored to be a part of the growing list of Durham Living Wage employers.

03/01/2017

The love for living wages continues...

WHY DO YOU BELIEVE IN LIVING WAGES?
The good folks at Rock Paper Scissors Salon and Gallery - another certified Durham Living Wage employer - telling it how it is.

02/22/2017

WHY DO YOU CARE ABOUT LIVING WAGES?
The folks over at Vert & Vogue—a fellow Durham Living Wage business—are helping to spread the word. Feel free to share widely...

WHY DO YOU BELIEVE IN LIVING WAGES?
Our friends over at Vert & Vogue have something to say about living wages. Please help spread the word.

02/15/2017

We're proud to be a Durham Living Wage certified business. Here's why:

WHY DO LIVING WAGES MATTER TO YOU?
Sami Grover, Creative Director of Durham branding outfit, The Change - on why they became a certified living wage employer.

04/22/2015

With love and respect for all our fellow ! -

Bull City Burger and Brewery is one of 28 companies in the state, 799 in the U.S. and 1,257 across the world that are certified B Corporations, or B Corps.

02/26/2015

Listen to Sami Grover's Conscious Words Entrepreneur Story from The Conscious Entrepreneur...
http://theconsciousentrepreneur.co/tce-006-sami-grover-the…/
Sami is our communicator and writer at The Change, with a background in writing, languages, blogging, publishing and, above all, social and environmental activism. He believes that adaptability is a prerequisite for sustainability.

Listen to Sami Grover's Conscious Words Entrepreneur Story...
http://theconsciousentrepreneur.co/tce-006-sami-grover-the-conscious-words-entrepreneur/
Sami is a professional communicator with a background in writing, languages, blogging, publishing and, above all, social and environmental activism. You can see his work at The Change, TreeHugger, Mother Nature Network, Parentables and more. I worked with Sami for years at The Change, and never once did I tire of his English accent:)

12/02/2014

BIG PROBLEMS NEED BIG SOLUTIONS. Help The Redwoods Group Foundation build movements to fight sexual abuse & drowning http://thndr.it/11aZlQH

07/30/2014

EVERYONE NEEDS TIME
Here's what friend and ally Kevin Trapani of The Redwoods Group told the US Senate on the importance of paid leave today:

"Taking time to heal and taking time to care for families are basic needs of all people"

Tom Harkin (IA)Barbara A. Mikulski (MD)Patty Murray (WA)Bernard Sanders (I) (VT)Robert P. Casey, Jr. (PA) Kay R. Hagan (NC) Al Franken (MN) Michael F. Bennet (CO) Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) Tammy Baldwin (WI) Christopher S. Murphy (CT) Elizabeth Warren (MA)

07/23/2014

The Change runs exclusively on clean, tasty, high-caffeine fuel. (And the occasional beer too.) Larry's Beans

07/23/2014

Next time someone complains about the "war on coal"...

Though solar power is still far from surpassing coal as America’s primary energy source, the number of people employed by the solar industry has surpassed the number of coal miners. The non-profit Solar Foundation estimates that there are about 142,000 people in the U.S. workforce who spend “at leas…

07/22/2014

The documentary "Free Swim" suggests that learning to swim can lift black kids up. But poverty, racism, and colonialism are tough nuts to crack.

04/11/2013

Coffee lovers and Fair Trade geeks, please consider supporting this important project from Change allies Stone Hut Studios. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/674589697/connected-by-coffee-documentary

A 1000-mile journey across Central America to show how coffee farmers and consumers can work together to create a more just world

03/12/2013

Please check out what our friends at Don't Sell Bodies have been up to. Our fancy phones can enable us to do more than just goof around on facebook...

NEVER WALK ALONE
Technology gives us amazing powers to stay connected. Let's use them to look out for each other.

Please check out bSafe - the world's most advanced mobile safety alarm. And spread the word. http://neverwalkalone.com/