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That's when Chambers discovered his calling. He founded Bonnie CLAC (Car Loans and Counseling), a nonprofit that attempts to negotiate fair car prices for the working poor and offers them low-rate loans. Since launching his firm in Lebanon, N.H., five years ago, Chambers has underwritten $10 million in loans, and his clients have saved an average of $7,000 over the life of their loan, he says...
...traditional practitioners. But in South Africa, legislation formalizing the role of healers has met stiff opposition from doctors. "Can you imagine the chaos that would take place in South Africa if traditional healers are allowed to authorize people to receive pensions and disability grants?" says Heinrich Botes of the nonprofit group Doctors for Life International...
Gore says his fight has taught him a lot about politics. "You always hear about the special-interest thing, but I've seen how it works," he says. "There really is a pro-penny lobby. They've got a nice website and look like a nonprofit. But the zinc industry has sponsored this lobby group to scare people. Sometimes I feel outgunned." Still, he thinks this might be the year for Kolbe, who is retiring after this term, to pass his bill. "We're at a tipping point," he says. "The price of a penny has totally changed the landscape...
...They?re very public about their commitments and the big picture is real,? says Mindy Lubber, head of Ceres, a nonprofit that ranks corporate environmental programs. That may be small consolation when you?re shelling out for $3 gas. But in the oil business, as they say, it?s a start...
Food sold in U.S. supermarkets averages some 1,500 miles from farm to plate--a 25% increase from 1980, according to Worldwatch Institute, a Washington nonprofit. Increasingly, even certified-organic produce is grown on vast monoculture spreads, many of them overseas, and shipped long distances. So consumers seeking to eat ethically and preserve farmland around their cities are embracing locally grown food as the eco-healthy choice. Farmers' markets are thriving, along with community-supported agriculture, through which people subscribe to a monthly produce basket. And on locavore websites, converts swap shopping tips (Goatsbeard Farm feta from a Missouri cook...