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Featured Merchant: Planting Justice Planting Justice is an income-generating non-profit that is creating green jobs in edible landscaping and grassroots organizing, while increasing access to healthy food, building community, and offering environmental education and green entrepreneurship in economically disadvantaged communities. Their urban food forest program produces low-cost, organic, nutritious food in communities that structurally have […]

Featured Merchant: Falling Whistles Falling Whistles is a campaign for peace in The Democratic Republic of the Congo. They sell whistles as symbols of protest, after the founders learned that child soldiers were being sent to the front lines of war in the Congo with only a whistle. Falling Whistles asks people to be a […]

Featured Merchant: Flora Grubb Gardens In addition to sharing the magic of San Francisco’s own Flora Grubb Gardens, we’d like to take this opportunity to say congratulations to Flora Grubb for being recognized as one of 11 recipients for Martha Stewart’s first annual American Made Awards! It was a well-deserved honor, as FGG is not […]

Congratulations to our Photo Contest Winners! Thank you so much to all of you who participated in our photo contest. It was absolutely delightful to receive your entries and put smiling faces behind your familiar voices. It was also very difficult to decide on the winners – so difficult that we expanded the winners from […]

Dharma Exhibits at PAINWeek, 9/5-9/8 This September 5th-8th, Dharma will be exhibiting at the annual PAINWeek conference in Las Vegas, NV. A happy client of Dharma, PAINWeek is the nation’s largest pain conference for frontline clinicians with an interest in pain management. Over 1500 physicians, nursing professionals, physician assistants, dentists, pharmacists, and psychologists are attending […]

Bay Area Sacred Commerce Workshop: 8/18 – 8/19 About 4 years ago we became aware of a local restaurant called Café Gratitude whose founders, Matthew and Terces Englehart, had integrated their contemplative practice as a vital part of the path to awakening. They have since written a book and developed workshops to teach the principles […]

This Month’s Being Game: Being Supportive Being Supportive is the topic of our “Being Game” at Dharma this month. The intention behind the Being Game is to hold a virtue in mind every day as a way to deepen our understanding and experience of an aspect of awakening. Each day one of us expresses their […]

Featured Merchant: PlanetBox This month we’re thrilled to feature local, family-owned and operated, health and sustainability-focused, rockstars of the lunchbox world Planetbox for three very special reasons: The boxes have a very smart design that helps manage portion control, make more healthy and economical food choices, and keep items fresh in a non-toxic container that […]

BPA-Free Receipt Paper Contains BPS Thanks to an alert from one of our dear merchants, we have determined that the BPA free receipt paper that we worked to find and to offer contains bisphenol S (BPS). According to researchers at the State University of New York, BPS apparently has similar estrogen mimicking qualities that can […]

Visa, Mastercard Settle on 2005 Class Action Antitrust Lawsuit Great news: Visa and Mastercard recently announced a settlement to the 2005 class action antitrust lawsuit on behalf of 7 million retailers that accept credit and debit cards with their brands. As part of the proposed deal they have agreed to lower the fees that businesses […]