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  Photo Gallery: International Day of Climate Action

  By Katherine Gustafson | Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:00 AM ET

  way. People in 181 countries submitted their own expressions of the importance of 350:Vilandai, India Sydney, Australia Koprivnica, Croatia Santa Cruz, California, USA Mexico City, Mexico Kunar, Afghanistan A beach somewhere in the world There are many more where these came from. T Read More

  More like this in: California, Climate change, India, Australia, Afghanistan, Mexico, Croatia, GOOD Magazine, Bill McKibben
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  Bamboo "Zambike" Makes Jobs for Zambians

  By Marc Hertz | Tue Jul 14, 2009 9:24 AM ET

  according to the Acirfa website, saves a life every nine days it is in the field. Later, Craig Calfee of Calfee Design came into the picture. The Santa Cruz-based bike designer, who had prototypes of bamboo bike frames, had set up a workshop in Ghana and was looking for more bike producers Read More

  More like this in: California, Business, United States, Sustainability, Ghana, Zambia, Business, Social Responsibility, Good Ideas, Activism, Development, Human Rights
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  AIDS Lifecycle: Halfway to L.A.

  By Dan Estabrook | Wed Jun 3, 2009 12:08 AM ET

  Paso Robles, Calif. -- mile 250.4 (44.8 percent of the total route). When I last reported on my week right here at Tonic, we had finished day 1 in Santa Cruz. Yesterday, the alarm clock rang (much too early) and we were on the road at 6:30 a.m. for a 106-mile day from Santa Cruz south throug Read More

  More like this in: AIDS, Social Responsibility, Fundraising, Events, Activism
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  AIDS Lifecycle: "I can't believe I'm doing this!"

  By Dan Estabrook | Sun May 31, 2009 3:33 PM ET

  about to do. I met some incredible people today, and as I write for Tonic.com I now sit in warm sunshine under redwood trees in a camping area in Santa Cruz. We live in an amazing and beautiful place, and it's awesome to do this ride along the California Coast. We have been met by many local Read More

  More like this in: California, San Francisco, Los Angeles, AIDS, Northern California, Condoms, San Francisco AIDS Foundation
• Green Porno

  By Rosie Haney | Mon May 18, 2009 9:20 AM ET

  are also scientifically backed up. Resident conservationist, Claudio Campagna, who has a PHD in animal behavior from University of California at Santa Cruz, works with Rossellini because of his sense of necessity to endorse conservation through innovative media tools. Rossellini sai Read More

  More like this in: California, Conservation, Death, Movies, University of California, National Geographic, Isabella Rossellini
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  Otter Gone Wild on Facebook!

  By Steve Enders | Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:30 PM ET

  -- has a popular Facebook page. Olive is being treated at the Department of Fish and Game's Marine Wildlife Veterinary Care and Research Center in Santa Cruz, Calif. She was rescued from Sunset State Beach, south of Santa Cruz, with goopy oil covering her thick coat. Her handlers say the oi Read More

  More like this in: California, Facebook, Water, Summer, Beer, Surfing, Sunset State Beach, Marine Wildlife Veterinary Care and Research Center, Department of Fish and Game, Friends Of The Otter
• Green Before Being Green Was Cool

  By Dan Estabrook | Mon Sep 1, 2008 7:35 PM ET

  1974 was kind of a preparation year for me for all the years since that time! Chris Jordan can be found reading Tonic News and whizing through Santa Cruz, California, on one of his very gree Read More

  More like this in: Energy, Recycle, Transportation, Environmentally Friendly, Technology, Life & Style
• Olive the Otter: Facebook's Budding Star

  By Steve Enders | Thu Jan 1, 1970 12:00 AM ET

  -- has a popular Facebook page. Olive is being treated at the Department of Fish and Game's Marine Wildlife Veterinary Care and Research Center in Santa Cruz, Calif. She was rescued from Sunset State Beach, south of Santa Cruz, with goopy oil covering her thick coat. Her handlers say the oi Read More

  More like this in: California, Facebook, Sunset State Beach, Marine Wildlife Veterinary Care and Research Center, Department of Fish and Game, Friends Of The Otter, US, Science, Environment
• Steve Tanner

  By Steve Tanner | Wed Dec 31, 1969 7:00 PM ET

  and subsequent crash-landing of Silicon Valley’s dot-com experiment. Tanner’s work has been published in Business 2.0, Red Herring, SFGate.com, Santa Cruz Sentinel and the San Jose Business Journal, to name a few. When he’s not scouring the World Wide Web for Tonic, he can be found hangin Read More

  More like this in: Silicon Valley, San Jose