Laguna Beach has a history of being a waterwise community, so it's not surprising 25 of Laguna's high school students have taken that motto to heart by "Walking for Water." Last year, the $100,000 they raised helped underwrite the costs of building six freshwater wells in West Africa and India
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On a cold, snowy Sunday in late November, while others were curling up with a book or watching a movie, Ali Haberstroh’s idea of fun was to make a spreadsheet.
That’s how Not-Amazon.ca – a fast-growing directory of local retail alternatives to e-commerce giants such as Amazon and Walmart – was born. Ms. Haberstroh, a social-media manager at a marketing company in Toronto, wanted to shop local herself, but didn’t always know where to start. “It was an education process for myself,” she said.