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Stone Soup Listening Tour to Connect the Green Dots
T Linda Sechrist
wo enterprising ecopreneurs are journeying to 11 cities for a Stone Soup Listening Tour, beginning September 7. Linda Sechrist, Natural Awakenings editor/writer and co-founder of Upstate Green Central Station, and Sharon J. Kleitsch, founder of The Connection Partners, will meet hundreds of innovative individuals, listen to sustainability stories and learn about green initiatives across the nation. Through their networks, the women are connecting with regional nonprofit, business, government and media leaders to support what they and others are doing in the
tour cities. “Gathering and sharing this information creates a satisfying, savory ‘stone soup’ of true sustenance,” says Sechrist. The duo will collect a bounty of stories from each community as they travel, contributing them to the next city’s “pot.” “Our mission is to produce a soulfully good soup story that sustains all,” say Sechrist and Kleitsch. “At present, we believe that sustainability stories and initiatives are disconnected and ineffective, unable to transform, modify or enhance the momentum of the grassroots movement already taking place.” “Many individuals and groups are already hosting conversations to address current issues,” adds Kleitsch. “We’re just connecting the green dots, stirring the stone soup pot, and watching what happens.” The September tour, in collaboration with 11 Natural Awakenings publishers, begins in San Diego, California and moves to Tucson (September 9) and Phoenix (September 10), in Arizona. It continues to Albuquerque (September 12) and Santa Fe (September 13-14), in New Mexico, then swings to Oklahoma City (Septem- ber 16-17) and Tulsa (September 18), in Oklahoma. The final leg includes Little Rock, Arkansas (September 20) and three stops in Tennessee: Memphis (September 21), Nashville (September 22) and Chattanooga (September 23). The tour ends in Greenville/Spartanburg, South Carolina, on September 24. Stories, photos and video interviews will be posted on
blog.naturalawaken-
ingsmag.com,
YouGottaGoGreen.com,
CircleConnections.com, UpstateGreen-
CentralStation.com, Creative Loafing (
http://tampa.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/ green), YouTube and Facebook.
Contact Linda Sechrist at
StoneSoup@NaturalAwakeningsmag.com or Sharon Joy Kleitsch at
Kleitsch@verizon.net.
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Natural Awakenings’ Family of Franchises Keeps Growing
several new publishers who completed an August training program at the cor- porate headquarters in Naples. The NAPC training staff spent sever-
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al days with entrepreneurs from Contra Costa County, California; Huntsville, Alabama; Middlesex County, Massa- chusetts; Morris County, New Jersey; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; North Dallas, Texas; Lansing, Michigan; and Hawaii. Company CEO Sharon Bruckman
launched the first edition of Natural Awakenings in 1994 and began fran- chising it in 1999. The company cur- rently publishes 78 Natural Awakenings magazines throughout the United States and in Puerto Rico and Toronto, with a collective readership exceeding 3 million. According to Bruckman, NAPC expects to publish 88 magazines by the end of the first quarter of 2011.
For a list of where Natural Awakenings is publishing or to learn more about fran- chising opportunities, visit NaturalAwak-
eningsMag.com. See ad on page 50.
Nancy Pabers to Host Radio Show P
creased healthy, vitality and joy. “I really appreciate being given this opportunity with KCEO,” says Pabers.
“What Practical WooWoo does is bridge that gap [between alternate medical procedures and real life]. We take what seems ‘woowoo’ and help you apply it to your life and particular circumstance in a practical manner. I am very delighted by the success of this type of approach!”
For more information, call 858-531-2468, email
Nancy@PracticalWooWoo.com or visit
PracticalWooWoo.com. See ad on page 10.
www.na-sd.com
ractical Woo Woo™ founder and CEO Nancy Pabers, Ph.D., is hosting a radio show on KCEO AM 1000. Practical WooWoo –
The Art and Science of You can be heard from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Saturdays through November 6 and will provide tips, tools and techniques to promote the mind-body-spirit connection for in-
atural Awakenings Publishing Corp. (NAPC) recently welcomed
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