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My distaste for fashion labels, brands, icons and whatnot has more to do with my distaste for being told what to do, than anything else. Even as a child, if someone said to me, “you have to wear a dress,” I would immediately go put on a pair of pants and heaven help the person – no matter how big or “authoritative” - who tried to tell me to take off the pants.

When the oil runs out, will our future look more like the Jetsons or the Flintstones? With gas prices predicted to reach $7-10 per gallon by 2012, it is smart to prepare now. If you plan to replace your car before 2012, think about what kind of commitment you will make.

There's so much trash in this country. Thrift stores all across America are absolutely bursting at the seams.

Enlightened and informed consumers must ask Contra Costa Times and any other publication that chooses to turn a blind eye to torture, rape and cold blooded murder: What part of the Burmese people's enslavement don't you understand?

You decide to give something back. When it comes to creating a legacy, don't think in just financial terms.

It's probably not surprising that I'm a big fan of Powerful Writers, a writing enrichment program that is an offshoot of the Powerful Schools initiative in the Seattle Public Schools.

In 2008, leave narrow and exclusive ideologies at home and carefully consider your immediate experience. What has America achieved that you admire? What has it done or failed to do that fills you with dismay? What is laudatory? What is ludicrous? Put blame aside, let humor thrive, and dare to contemplate a larger question: What can America contribute to the world?

A major challenge facing business leaders is how to enhance the effectiveness of their social responsibility initiatives while substantially improvi

Once reserved for bohemian backpackers willing to sleep in mud huts and survive on little more than rice, participating with charitable causes overseas has become a new travel trend among