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Featured Merchant: Thanksgiving Coffee This month we’re thrilled to feature Thanksgiving Coffee, a fellow family-run business here in Northern California. Started in 1972, Thanksgiving Coffee has been dedicated to community, fair trade, the highest-quality coffee and the well-being of their farming partners since the beginning, even suing Regan, Bush and Meese to end the embargo […]

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 […]

Smile! Dharma Featured Photo Contest As we mentioned before, we’re absolutely thrilled with our new website (thanks again to the folks at Earthsite!).  We hope you’re enjoying it too and welcome your comments to help improve it even more. We have one great idea already: we think a huge improvement would be to have it […]

New Fee from Visa: FANF Adjustments in the rates and fees that the Card Associations (Visa, MC, Discover & Amex) charge are made in October and April. Last fall debit fees were radically reduced for regulated debit card sales due to the Durbin Amendment legislation. Regulated debit cards are issued by banks with assets greater […]