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Frankie on cover of Healthwise Ottawa!

“Frankie’s Food for Planet Earth” appears in the magazine’s Spring/Summer issue, an insert into the daily Ottawa Register. In it, journalist Debra Huron interviews Frankie about hunger, ethics, and Frankie’s philosophy on life. The interview ends with a “Getting to Know Her…” section with questions like, “Where does she go for solace?”

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An MRI study of people competing vs. cooperating found that cooperating stimulates the same parts of our brain as does eating chocolate!

America emits twice the carbon per person that Europe does. But think what’s possible: California emits 20 percent less carbon per dollar GDP than Germany; and it gets almost a quarter of its electricity from renewables!

In Washington DC, more than two dozen lobbyists push mainly corporate interests for every one representative American citizens have elected to protect our interests.

In 2011, solar use grew all over the world, soaring 54% to 28 gigawatts.

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