Posts Tagged ‘independent’

House Demands Audit of the Federal Reserve

Where Did All of the Money Go?

Ed Schultz interviews Florida Rep. Alan Grayson about Congress finally demanding more transparency from the Federal Reserve, and auditing their massive secret bank bailouts. The recently passed legislation will now allow the Government Accountability Office to independently audit the Fed, and their nefarious Wall Street deals.  Alan Grayson and

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Eco-Libris: Berkeley’s Cody’s Books

codysbooks.JPGEditor’s note: San Francisco is to book stores like… well… ok, there are a ton of cool book stores in the Bay Area. Today, our friends at Eco-Libris profile one of those stores with which they’re partnering to offset deforestation. Cody’s is well worth a visit regardless… now you can also lighten the impact of the purchases you make there. This post was originally published on Wednesday, April 30, 2008.

To anyone who’s from the San Francisco Bay Area, there’s no need to introduce Cody’s Books. This famous Berkeley independent bookstore has been around since 1956, when it was founded by Pat and Fred Cody as a small storefront, and even played a part in (The People’s Republic of) Berkley’s interesting political history in the 60’s and 70’s. In fact, Pat Cody wrote a book about it in Cody’s Books: the Life and Times of a Berkeley Bookstore, which I heard is quite worth hunting down.

So today’s announcement is that Eco-Libris finally plays a small part in the current chapter of Cody’s history book. As of last week, our “One tree planted for this book” eco-friendly stickers are on sale for $1 at the book counter, and the Berkeley literati can now plant a tree for every book they buy at Cody’s.

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