U.S. soldiers mark last Thanksgiving in Iraq

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GoodGuide Enables Ethical Shopping For The Lazy

We’re big fans of GoodGuide, a smartphone app and website that offers easy-to-digest information about the environmental and ethical implications of the products we use every day. Now GoodGuide is making it simple for even the laziest among us to make better shopping decisions with the Purchase Analyzer, a service that pulls user shopping information from sites like Amazon.com, Diapers.com, and Safeway.com, matches these purchases against personal preferences, and suggests better alternative products (and where to find them at the lowest price).

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'Dog Bless You' Donates 11 Therapy Dogs to Troubled Vets for Veterans Day

To honor veterans and their commitment to service in the face of sacrifice, Dog Bless You, will donate 11 service dogs to veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Beginning Nov. 11 – Veterans Day – Dog Bless You will give away one dog per day for 11 days, ending Nov. 22.


In just a year since its launch, Dog Bless You has grown to nearly 275,000 members on Facebook backing its multitude of philanthropic projects, like funding the mobilization of search and rescue dogs following the earthquake and tsunami in Japan this spring. While programs that pair service dogs with soldiers have sprung up in pockets across the country, Dog Bless You strives to create a steady stream of dog donations to better and more easily serve veterans.

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Exports post gains at Port of Los Angeles

In October, Los Angeles had its biggest month ever for exports, and 2011 is shaping up to be a record year for outbound goods. The Port of Los Angeles handled 193,548 cargo containers filled with exports, a 28.1% increase compared with October 2010, buoying what would have been a drop for the month in overall cargo traffic.

Los Angeles and Long Beach are the nation's first- and second-ranked container ports, respectively. That makes them an important barometer of the strength of the U.S. economy and a huge jobs engine. More than half of the state's 1.1 million cargo-related jobs are in Southern California.

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