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We’re back with another fresh batch of amazing projects on Giveth.io. We have six projects from a wide range of causes that we are featuring in this project spotlight. This is also an extra special spotlight because Giveth.io itself is currently active and accepting donations on the latest round of <a href="https://gitcoin.co/grants/">Gitcoin Grants</a> (GR11). If you feel inspired by the Giveth mission after reading this article then consider making a contribution via our <a href="https://gitcoin.co/grants/795/givethio-panvala-league">Grants listing</a> and learn about the magic of Quadratic Funding! More on that later…
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/476/0*JD2sZiypL2y5J0X0"></figure>Without further ado let’s dive in and highlight these projects that are making our DApp great!
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*0lvm5lb4Nf-Liqu4"></figure><h3>ETHOS</h3>
Emergency Transitional Housing Offering Services (ETHOS) is designing funding solutions for the homelessness crisis in Olympia, Washington State. ETHOS has been championed by ‘Art Is Solidarity’ which is a local non-profit combining blockchain technology and art mediums to find solutions and funding opportunities for pressing social issues. At the heart of this project is the city’s first initiative: to combat homelessness. From ETHOS’s project description:
<blockquote>“In 2018, the City of Olympia sanctioned a tent city adjacent to the transit center downtown dubbed the “Mitigation Site” for those struggling on the streets to have somewhere to rest and seek shelter. In late 2020, two-and-a-half winters and many tents later, a next step in creating a path to housing for downtowners was conceived when the City of Olympia contracted a local design and build firm to create 60 ‘micro-houses’ to replace tents and offer more security and safety for those trying to get on their feet.“</blockquote>
Following the successful construction and installation of these micro-houses, Art Is Solidarity will use additional funds raised to improve upon the amenities inside the Mitigation Site in a unique way. They are engaging the help of local artists to beautify the micro-houses into works of art and mint the art pieces into NFTs to be auctioned off digitally. Proceeds of these auctions will go towards outfitting the house with furniture, heaters and more!
Art Is Solidarity also intends to educate the shelter’s inhabitants and local artists about the vast opportunities that NFTs and cryptocurrencies can offer for alternative forms of income, and provide them with the tools to get involved. Check out their <a href="https://giveth.io/project/ETHOS-Emergency-Transitional-Housing-Offering-Services-1">project on Giveth.io</a> and donate to help the build and beautification of micro-housing, and the educational opportunities being created for the homeless in Olympia.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*cmgGj9jQzQwGavUW"></figure><h3>Finca Morpho</h3>
Nestled in the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, there is a community of thriving nomads building ecological harmony at Finca Morpho. This 5-acre beachfront paradise is where humans create strong ties with each other and the land while learning a wide range of skills for a harmonized lifestyle. These skills include permaculture, bamboo building, recycling techniques, holistic medicine, renewable energy, and healthy cooking techniques.
Founded in 2014 Finca Morpho is a place for curious travelers to spend time in nature and to fully immerse themselves in communal living. They also host events and retreats to further share the important knowledge they have cultivated on the farm. They have created closed-loop recycling systems from the ground up, having found ways to completely repurpose all of their waste. From a simple sandy beach they have nurtured a thriving permaculture system complete with aquaponics, soil sanctuaries and carbon sequestration techniques. They have come a long way from their humble beginnings.
There are 7 pillars that comprise the core physical and conceptual foundations of the farm: The Kitchen, The Resource Center, Permaculture, Hospitality, Infrastructure, Project Management and Relationships. Finca Morpho is seeking funding to upgrade a few of these pillars which need a bit of love in order to maintain and improve their functions. The four pillars needing improvements are:
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Kitchen — To keep feeding hungry mouths and processing the bounty of the land. Buying new equipment such as blenders and stoves.</li>
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Resource Center — To fulfill their mission of recycling or repurposing everything they use. Purchasing a 3d printer, plastic shredder, extruder, microscope and expanding the area of the center.</li>
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Infrastructure — The cabins, water storage system and solar grid they maintain are in need of love. Buying new solar batteries, renovating cabins and installing a new water storage system.</li>
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Permaculture — Every season comes with new challenges and needs. Purchasing seeds, plants and trees.</li>
</ul>
Check out <a href="https://giveth.io/project/Finca-Morpho">Finca Morpho’s project on Giveth.io</a> and make a donation to keep this community thriving and capable of spreading its message to those who seek it, and learn more about how they do it on their <a href="https://www.fincamorpho.com/">website</a>.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/960/0*ahDxXjoR2NBjsaYG"></figure><h3>Solidity Development Course in Farsi</h3>
The language and gender barriers created by the english-dominated blockchain industry severely hamper opportunities of up-and-coming demographics to fully participate in the revolutionary technology that Blockchain produces. Shayan Eskandari, the project’s creator summarizes the opportunity to provide support:
<blockquote>“Farsi is spoken by an estimated 110 million speakers mostly in Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Russia, Azerbaijan and Afghanistan . . . In contrast to the West where computer engineers are predominantly men, Iran’s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) graduates are about 70% women.”</blockquote>
CoinIran, the project’s host organization, has built opportunities to overcome these barriers by creating unique programs for Farsi speakers, notably their latest project, “Women in Blockchain’’. This program is putting Iranian women through the ConsenSys Academy Blockchain Developer bootcamp while providing technical and linguistic support, giving them the knowledge and skills to acquire jobs as Ethereum developers. Their initial cycle put 7 women through the course, who all passed, receiving developer certifications from ConsenSys.
Making Blockchain and Cryptocurrency more accessible will only help to ensure its growth and adoption. The project is seeking funding to cover the expenses of putting the women through the course and for the costs of building the course tailored for Farsi speakers with comprehensive media, translations and syllabuses. Further funds raised will allow more women to go through the program. Read the <a href="https://coiniran.com/empowering-iranian-women-with-blockchain/">full article on CoinIran</a> and visit their <a href="https://giveth.io/project/solidity-development-course-in-farsi-by-women-in-blockchain-iran">project on Giveth.io</a> to make a donation!
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*AaUu4WBBobg9LLSA"></figure><h3>Oika</h3>
Can be defined as “The feeling of ecological wellbeing and belonging to nature. It is the intelligence of nature as expressed through human thought and action.”. The word is derived from the Greek word Oikos, meaning “home”. The project, Oika, is reconnecting humans with nature and raising awareness of climate change through NFT technology. Dr. Rich Blundell, the project’s creator, has gathered a team of scientists, artists and storytellers to cultivate Ecological Intelligence. They are combining the realms of academic ecological analysis with different artistic techniques to produce images and videos that are minted as NFTs. You can check out their creations on the <a href="https://oika.com/oika-media-projects">Oika Media page</a>.
Oika also maintains an off-grid homestead and marine research vessel for inspired researchers to collaborate, incubating new ideas and generating knowledge. There are a wide variety of subjects that Oika advocates research on, such as:
<ul>
<li>Ecological Survey &amp; Monitoring</li>
<li>Invasive Species Response</li>
<li>Pelagic/Neritic, Plastics Clean-up</li>
<li>Fishing Debris Location &amp; Removal</li>
<li>Wildlife Reporting &amp; Monitoring</li>
<li>Aquaculture Research</li>
<li>Phenology (study of climate change effects)</li>
<li>Citizen Science</li>
<li>Sci-Art Collaboration</li>
<li>Public Interpretation/Communication</li>
<li>Conservation Journalism/Documentary</li>
</ul>
Oika also offers courses for teaching the concepts of Ecological Intelligence. They seek funding to continue operating their off-grid research center and to pay artists and scientists for their contributions and collaborations involved in crafting the NFTs. Visit the <a href="https://oika.com/">Oika website</a> to learn more and check out their <a href="https://giveth.io/project/Oika-in-the-Blockchain-1">project on Giveth.io</a> to make a donation!
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*zkBZ024x0ueUfc2m"></figure><h3>Grassroots Economics</h3>
The ability for local economies to spring up, create their own money and give it value is one of the most revolutionary concepts created by cryptocurrency. Grassroots Economics is proving this concept by building open-source economies in communities throughout Kenya. Their base token. known as Community Inclusion Currency (CIC). is to be used across all their participating communities in order to quantify and redistribute the abundance of goods they produce.
Their vision is to create healthy and decentralized ecosystems by empowering locals to design their own economies. They also believe heavily in syntropic agroforestry as the main technique to provide agricultural abundance and economic value production.
They seek funding in order to build the open-source software they need in order to achieve their goals. Development currently takes place on their <a href="https://gitlab.com/grassrootseconomics">public repository on Gitlab</a>. Check out their <a href="https://giveth.io/project/grassroots-economics-community-currency">project on Giveth.io</a> and make a donation to allow Kenyan communities to build new economies using Blockchain!
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/960/0*IckDKP4dVgIWRH5b"></figure><h3>Rainbow Crystal Land</h3>
Among the Andes mountains in San Agustin, Colombia, there is a community of free-spirits liberating mother nature and creating communal living spaces. Rainbow Crystal Land (RCL), established in 2014, strives to create a global network of leaderless, horizontally structured communities that live in harmony with each other and the Earth. Currently they operate out of their main hub in San Agustin but are seeking to build a global community that shares their philosophy. They are mostly donation based but also sell the food they grow on the land to the local markets. All of these funds go into their “Magic Hat” which is used to buy necessary food and pay overhead costs to continue their existence.
They have written a <a href="https://rainbowcrystal.land/document/handbook/">comprehensive handbook</a> detailing many aspects of their organization, including their declaration of Common Intention as well as their Mission, Vision and Values. On the land they maintain several houses for families and dormitories for their human inhabitants. They operate a solar grid for closed-loop electricity provision and also a permaculture farm on their 14 hectare plot of land.
RCL is seeking funding to improve much of their existing infrastructure. They are hoping to purchase treated bamboo and other wood to finish building their housing projects. Tools and plant supplies need to be bought to begin putting to use their recently acquired land. Funding also is always needed to feed their citizens, namely, those who are working hard to build their utopian vision. Check out their <a href="https://giveth.io/project/rainbow-crystal-land-colombia">project on Giveth.io</a> to learn more and make a donation!
That’s a wrap for this community project spotlight! Six diverse projects that are making a positive change across the globe, check them out and consider making a donation to keep these important causes alive and thriving! Stay tuned for more featured projects in the future!
Also, if you love Giveth.io and the work we do to provide free and open-source funding platforms for philanthropic causes, consider making a donation to our <a href="https://gitcoin.co/grants/795/givethio-panvala-league">Gitcoin Grant</a>. We also have our other DApp, <a href="http://trace.giveth.io/">Giveth TRACE</a>, for more complex projects that want to offer traceable donations. You can make a donation to Giveth TRACE on its <a href="https://gitcoin.co/grants/2154/givethtrace">Gitcoin Grants listing</a> as well. Every unique donor to our listings increases the amount of matching funds we receive via <a href="https://wtfisqf.com/?grant=&amp;grant=&amp;grant=&amp;grant=&amp;match=1000">Quadratic Funding</a>, so the more the merrier!
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Community Project Spotlight #2

<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/666/0*rjTXRvOVJH_3Ih5H"></figure>We’re back with a silver platter of community curated projects to celebrate and highlight! Our Giveth contributors went through the list and chose their top picks. We’ve found six great projects that are <a href="https://giveth.io/projects">live on Giveth now</a> and looking for funding to meet their goals. Read on to discover some of our favourite projects from a diverse range of causes using our DApps.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*zO-rv7dONblPwoFu_mWw9w.png"></figure><h3>Colorado Multiversity</h3>
Is a partnership of local and international organizations based in the Northern Caribbean side of Costa Rica. They provide resources for disaster relief workers and environmental conservationists. The biodiversity contained in Costa Rica cannot be understated and the preservation of the plethora of unique flora and fauna in this region is paramount to the Multiversity’s mission. They currently steward a land area of 1235 acres located within the Barra del Colorado National Refuge which has been designated by UNESCO as one of most important places for natural conservation.
Currently, Colorado Multiversity operates out of a biological station called “El Zota”, which is one of the Multiversity’s partners. El Zota carries out research and training for those who are passionate about conservation and biodiversity. There is also The Refuge Project, another one of the Multiversity’s organizations, that utilizes the facility as a safe space for disaster relief workers worldwide to meet, rest, teach and learn.
The Colorado Multiversity has been recognized by some notable organizations for potential funding, including the SDG Impact Fund, Gaia Gives and the Spanish Cooperation. They are seeking initial funding to kick-start their mission and meet the funding criteria outlined by these organizations. They have a wide range of projects being launched including decarbonization initiatives, international volunteering programs, agricultural development research and plastic recycling. Check out their introduction video below and <a href="https://giveth.io/project/colorado-multiversity">visit their project on Giveth</a> to learn more and donate!
<a href="https://medium.com/media/b71c3824bed468458e3f06268a37fe10/href">https://medium.com/media/b71c3824bed468458e3f06268a37fe10/href</a><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*eTkCOvWk_BBXIigbCnLRfQ.jpeg"></figure><h3>Feed the Hungry in Chilliwack, BC, Canada</h3>
Is a local effort led by a man named David to make a contribution to the homeless population prevalent in the local community of Chilliwack, a city near Vancouver, British Columbia. In Vancouver the homeless population is ever-present and expanding. The temperate climate of southern BC has allowed this region to become a year-round hub for the Canadian demographic experiencing homelessness. The problem in Chilliwack is exacerbated as the city of Vancouver rounds up the homeless on one-way buses to Chilliwack, dropping them off in the town with no return.
Feeding the hungry is a simple and powerful gesture. David’s trusty team, consisting of him and his daughter, plans to create food packages to hand out to the population experiencing homelessness in Chilliwack. David is seeking funding to purchase ingredients for the food packages, cover gas costs and pay for lodging expenses. At the time of writing this article, David’s team is gearing up and getting ready to execute their plan in the coming weeks. Funds contributed to this project will allow them to scale their mission and feed more people. <a href="https://giveth.io/project/Feed-the-Hungry-in-Chilliwack-BC-Canada">Find their project on Giveth.io</a>, make a donation and stay tuned for updates in the near future!
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*irBJ8CplQhPvMhDy"></figure><h3>Women of Crypto Art (WOCA)</h3>
Have launched an inclusive community to celebrate, support and connect the women in the crypto art space. The voices of women are extremely important and often underrepresented so WOCA is championing the presence of women in the crypto sphere. They share ideas and information and promote each other’s work across all realms of cryptocurrency. In 6 short months their community has quickly grown to over 400 members.
WOCA has kept pace with their rapid growth, improving their organization in many ways. They’ve built a website to showcase their community talent, they launched a Colony DAO to manage their thriving tribe and have formed great relationships with entities such as Panvala and Cryptovoxels. WOCA is seeking funding to reach their next milestones, including building a permanent gallery, onboarding members to the DAO and promoting all of the incredible work done by women artists. Check out WOCA and make a donation to their <a href="https://giveth.io/project/women-of-crypto-art-(woca)">project on Giveth</a>.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*q8iZuHGKopQMgRjFRRF49A.jpeg"></figure><h3>Vukani</h3>
Translates to “Wake Up” in the regional isiZulu tongue, and is the motto of this project based in rural Zimbabwe. The entire country faces extreme food security challenges, driven by political and environmental factors. This project is dedicated to finding food security solutions for one of the most important, yet vulnerable groups in society: the children. The project’s owner, Tim Olsson, believes that satisfying the nutritional needs of children allows them to focus on their education and development. Children will create the future of tomorrow and providing them with the means to succeed will help them overcome the challenges we still face today.
Vukani’s immediate goal is to grow food to nourish the local school children. Research is needed to find an agricultural system that works in the unique conditions of Zimbabwe. Once an effective system is found by the initial pilot project, their aim is to scale up and one day serve the entire country. Progress has been made for finding a water source but more infrastructure needs to be acquired to effectively distribute it for irrigation. Funds to this project will help make purchases for water pumps and solar-powered irrigation systems. Head over to <a href="https://giveth.io/project/vukani">Vukani’s project on Giveth</a> to read more and make a donation!
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*JQmwtfBRaTYFfPj1w9nuuw.jpeg"></figure><h3>MyCrypto</h3>
Is making wallet management a breeze in the Ethereum ecosystem. MyCrypto is a hub for creating and connecting your Ethereum wallets. It boasts a great UI that can consolidate and keep track of all your tokens and their values on Mainnet and several Ethereum sidechains. MyCrypto also allows you to deploy and carry out direct interactions with Ethereum smart contracts! Neato! Apart from those wonderful tools, it can also facilitate sending, requesting, swapping and buying crypto as well as tracking eligible airdrops. They also have a desktop app for offline wallet management, useful for managing private keys and seed phrases.
MyCrypto is open-source and has developed many free tools for Ethereum user security, such as a <a href="https://cryptoscamdb.org/">database for tracking known crypto scams</a>, <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/etheraddresslookup/pdknmigbbbhmllnmgdfalmedcmcefdfn">a web extension for preventing phishing attempts</a> and an <a href="https://findeth.io/">application for finding lost Ethereum addresses</a>. Donations to their project will help secure funding to keep their platforms alive and maintained. Experience their DApp on <a href="https://app.mycrypto.com/">https://app.mycrypto.com</a> and <a href="https://giveth.io/project/mycrypto">visit their project on Giveth</a> to make a contribution.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*b7Bjfv7SEyd-eyb4sbHaPA.jpeg"></figure><h3>Free the Food</h3>
Believes in creating regenerative food sources using the vacant areas along the sides of roads. Harnessing the knowledge of Syntropic Farming they have launched their project along the lush rural roads of Costa Rica. According to Devin &amp; Arthur, Free the Food’s co-founders, Syntropic Farming is the gateway to restoring ecological diversity, creating wildlife habitats and holistically super-charging the generation of delicious and healthy food.
They have already begun with three streetside syntropic plantations to grow food, with more sites on the way. Their grand vision is to create a network of streetside syntropics and to engineer a grants system allowing new communities to spring up, acquiring the knowledge to begin propagating these regenerative food sources. They are seeking funding now to develop their website and purchase irrigation tools, water tanks, seeds, tools, as well as to provide a monthly budget for 1 employee. <a href="https://giveth.io/project/free-the-food">Find their project on Giveth</a> and learn more about Free the Food!
There you have it! Six spicy projects running the gambit from art, crypto, nature and all the goodness in between. Don’t see your project on the list? Don’t sweat! We’ll be regularly highlighting more ventures on our blog and social media channels, and you can catch our eye by tweeting about your project and tagging us <a href="https://twitter.com/Givethio">@givethio</a>.
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Community Project Spotlight #1

This is a special Giveth Project, part of the Panvala League. This grant accepts all donations, but donations in $PAN on xDai or Mainnet will receive extra MAJOR matching! If you are a member of the Trusted Seed, you get to vote with your CSTK Score to decide how these funds are used every quarter. Read this post to learn more: <a href="https://medium.com/commonsstack/commons-stack-community-fund-voting-round-3-dedc0f98d495" target="_blank">https://medium.com/commonsstack/commons-stack-community-fund-voting-round-3-dedc0f98d495</a> You can increase our $PAN matching in 2 ways! #1 Donating PAN to this Grant #2 Hodl $Pan and Stake for us: <a href="https://panvala.com/staking" target="_blank">https://panvala.com/staking/</a> How do we distribute the funds We collect the funds for 3 months and convert all donations raised into PAN and then distribute them to the Trusted Seed's top 15 grants. First Goal If any of the grants collected less than $1000 that quarter in total funding, they will be topped up to $1000. We estimate this will require ~$5000 worth of funding, but it may take more or less and that will be reflected in the final result. Second Goal (Unlocked after ~$5000) If we raise enough to ensure that all the top 15 grants receive at least $1000 in funding, the next $10,000 will be split between the top 5 projects, as voted on by the Trusted Seed. The first place project will get 40% of these funds, 2nd = 30%, 3rd=20%, 4th = 7%, 5th = 3% Third Goal (Unlocked after ~$15000) If we raise enough to award the top 5 projects $10,000 in the 2nd goal, the next $10,000 will be split equally to the top 10 projects, as voted on by the Trusted Seed. Fourth Goal (Unlocked after ~$25000) If we raise enough to award the top 10 projects $1000 each in the 3rd goal, the next $30,000 will be split equally to the top 15 projects, as voted on by the Trusted Seed. Fifth Goal (Unlocked after ~$55,000) If we raise enough to award all 15 projects with $2000 each in the 4th goal, the rest that we collect will be split between the 15 projects along this rate: #1-7 = 10% each, #8-12 = 5% each, #13&amp;14 = 2%, #15 = 1%

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Sage to Saddle aims to keep Native American youth focused on healthier alternatives to the prevalent poverty and substance abuse they live with, which are both major contributors to late winter’s “suicide season”. On America’s reservations, this suicide rate is four times the national average.

With 20 years dedicated to photographing America’s West, Nate Bressler realized while on photo-assignment shooting Native American horse racing teams for Outside Magazine, that a winter horse riding facility would greatly benefit the community of Pine Ridge. 
He teamed up with Lakota Native, Stan Brewer, the driving force behind Pine Ridge’s horse community who acts as Riding Arena Coordinator. Together, they created lofty but attainable goals that will bring structure, education, celebration, not to mention a safe haven, along with the opportunity for these Native youth to lift their chins with pride.

Sage to Saddle, with the support of the Pine Ridge community, hopes to provide this indoor horse riding arena for kids from 8-18 years old with an after-school program focused on equine relationships and the responsibilities horse care involves. Rotating through arena activities and the required time for completing homework in the attached classroom, students of the program will be granted the opportunity to carry on a horse nation’s tradition with the very animal that made their survival possible.

Rounding out the Sage to Saddle team, Angela Smith grew up in Utah, exploring the Mountains and Deserts throughout the West. She has been involved with nonprofits throughout her life, supporting differing charities and causes through volunteering, increasing public awareness, organizing private donations and events. While working in the field of software, design, and technology, she currently supports local groups involved with homeless families, mental health and addiction issues, and veteran work training programs in San Diego, CA. 

Sage to Saddle

We are on a mission to protect water regenerate the planet and restore all biodiversity on Earth! This film highlights the voices of the inspiring changemakers in the plastic-free movement paving the way offering us tangible solutions to the mess we've made. 

WHY?

Plastic is destroying our wildlife, polluting our drinking water, and is made with cancer causing chemicals like be BPA. It’s made from oil. The oil industry subsidizes all of the plastic products we consume, profiting trillions of dollars all while stealing and polluting our water running through indigenous lands… 

From racing extinction to climate change, environmental disasters, deforestation and plastic pollution. The fear based media is leaving us paralyzed stricken with anxiety and despair. 
We are here to empower individuals with solutions they can make in their own lives
And to make zero waste closed loop systems available to everyone. 

HOW? 

We are interviewing business shop owners, policy makers, and everyday heroes. 

TO CONTRIBUTE

Our first milestone is to receive a SONY As7 + Boom Rode Mic Pro + 35 - 50 MM Lens to complete all of the interviews in the Los Angeles area, film Reusable LA + their campaign Skip the Stuff, and then meet and film shop owners in San Diego as well as the San Francisco Bay area, highlighting solutions like Dispatch, which is a reusable takeout container program. 




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