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How To Celebrate the December Holidays Inclusively

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Adopt a family Rather than giving each other gifts, take up a collection and sponsor a food drive to donate a holiday meal for one or more families in need. A medical office could hang all kinds of syringes, bandages, stethoscopes and cotton on a tree, while employees at a transportation company could bring in toy boats, trains and trucks.

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What Can We Learn from LA’s Community Efforts to Rebuild after the California Fires?

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When the fires struck, street food vendor Jimmy Medina and his son decided to help support the community by giving out hot dogs. Medina also shared a post online asking for more food and help. Street food chefs from all over Los Angeles came together to serve comfort food to those impacted by the fires.

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How Happier Employees Give Your Bottom Line a Boost

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But when he took the time to get his employees’ input, they listed an entirely different set of priorities, such as caregiving benefits , transportation assistance and access to emergency funds. But in the process, leadership didn’t realize that the lack of transportation in these areas would result in attendance issues and turnover.

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The Race for Net Zero by 2050

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Leffel explains that we need a complete transformation of how we produce, transport and consume energy. reports that meat production releases more emissions than most other food industries). When the panel modeled the pathways that could be used to limit global warming to 1.5 What does the net-zero goal entail?

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Everything About Us Without Us

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The 327 patients from the Hawthorne Asylum in Portland were transported by train, with blinds covering the windows, to the new hospital in Salem. The hospital operated a farm with patient labor so that it could spend relatively little cash for food products. He believed his architectural design was therapeutic and helped with recovery.

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Life in the Hospital Before Deinstitutionalization

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The nearly two miles of tunnels beneath the elegant Kirkbride architecture of the Oregon State Hospital, located as it was in a rainy climate, provided for the dry and safe transport of food, supplies, equipment and patients between the many hospital buildings. The food was often cold.

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They Called It Psychiatry – I Call It Punishment

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I was held down, injected with sedatives, and transported to a private psychiatric clinic. In the private sector, the environment may appear more civilized — clean beds, painted walls, better food — but the treatment is no less oppressive. I tried to reason with them. I tried to tell them that I wasn’t sick — just vocal.