Jan. 4, 2013

Help Animal Place while you shop!

The wonderful people at Animal Place have found a new way for you to support their work: The SHARES Card. SHARES stands for Supporting Humanities, Arts, Recreation, Education and Sports. They raise millions a year for various charities and now Animal Place is on board!

Details:

Get a card for FREE and every time you swipe it at Save Mart, S-Mart, FoodMaxx, or Lucky Supermarkets, a portion of your purchase goes to Animal Place. It’s available in California and northern Nevada (that’s where the stores are located). You can get a card by signing up here: http://animalplace.org/shares-card

Here are links to the stores in the Bay Area:
Lucky
FoodMaxx (you’ll have to type in your zip, but there’s one in Oakland.)
Save Mart

In other news, meet Stanley! A recent Animal Place rescue and my new crush. Look, he’s trying to make an angry face! I know you ain’t angry, Stanley! Silly baby.

“Newest bovine rescue at Animal Place - Stanley! His likes include nomming on grass like he’s a big cow, chasing his shadow, bottle-time, and gentle chin skritches. He looks forward to meeting big brother Theo in the coming months!”

#animal place #animal rescue #vegan #california #nevada

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Aug. 26, 2012

This fact hasn’t stopped other states and cities from rewarding Apple and its brethren with similarly sweet deals. In 2010, the North Carolina Legislature debated for less than a minute before giving Apple a $46 million tax break to construct a data center in the town of Maiden, which itself agreed to cut Apple’s would-be property taxes in half, and slash local taxes on its assets by 85 percent—all for creating 50 jobs, none of them set aside for locals.

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Apple’s $88 Million Tax Break Doesn’t Compute for Nevada | Josh Harkinson of MotherJones.com

How the high-flying tech company just nabbed the largest corporate tax exemption in the state’s history.

(via jamilasays)

(via motherjones)

#apple #capitalism #taxes #jobs #labor #nevada

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Jul. 6, 2012

fuckyeahveganicecream:

You guys! The ice cream shop formerly know as Atomic #7 in Henderson, Nevada is trying to relocate to a larger space so it can reopen as A la Mode - but they need our help to do it! Currently they’re tying to raise at least $8,000 on Kickstarter to buy bigger and better equipment with which to make bigger and better vegan and gluten-free sweets: cakes, cupcakes, cookies - and ice cream, of course! Even homemade vegan waffle cones, caramel sauce, and hot fudge! Omnomnom!

Better yet, everyone pledging $5 or more gets a prize - everything from a bumper sticker to caramel sauce, hot fudge, and cake mixes, all nestled in a cute lil’ A la Mode tote. Megabucks donors even get an invite to the grand re-opening - FANCY! If you’ve got even just a few bucks to spare, please consider tossing it A la Mode’s way. You will make my lesser half* very, very happy.

And if you have any cash left, this vegan soul food place in Harlem looks pretty sweet too. MAC & CHEESE!

* I’m awful, I know.

#vegan #ice cream #vegan ice cream #atomic no 7 #a la mode #nevada #las vegas #kickstarter

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