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The Homeless Cat Crisis
Right now, tens of thousands of homeless cats are struggling to survive on the streets of New York City. These cats, suffering from disease, starvation, and neglect in all weather extremes, continue to grow in number each year. Overburdened, city shelters are forced to euthanize seventy percent of all incoming cats.
Adoption versus TNR
To solve our city's homeless cat crisis, we have to distinguish between stray cats, whom are domesticated, friendly to humans and prime for adoption, and feral (wild) cats, whom are not socialized and unable to be adopted.
New year, new you, right? Every January, millions of people pledge to take on a challenge to better themselves. But according to the online Goal Setting Guide, 20% of people drop their resolutions after the first month and by July it's estimated that over half of the remaining resolution-keepers give up. Often times it's easier to keep a resolution when you have someone, or something, to hold you accountable. Try out some of these highly recommended apps to keep you on track all year long.
Today is Make a Difference Day, a perfect time to put all of life's stresses aside and set out to do something good for others.
Millions of volunteers around the world are going out and helping one another, showing us the interconnectedness of our globe, and the universal need for help and charity.
Be it food drives, green space expansions, community building renovations, or a simple act of kindness, any small do-gooder deed will help change our world for the better.
Looking for a place to start? Go here.
New York City may be called the Concrete Jungle, but, of course, that’s not the whole truth. Stretching over two miles between 59th and 110th st is Central Park, an 843-acre public park in Manhattan that has become a model for city parks around the world.
The park is managed by the Central Park Conservancy, a non-profit organization that contributes 85% of the Park’s $37.4 million annual budget! The conservancy is a perfect model of giving and receiving; founded in 1980 by a group of philanthropic leaders, Central Park is a space that depends on its community and foundations in order to thrive, while providing countless activities and services to its visitors, including concerts, tours, sports, and volunteer opportunities!
How many hours do you spend at home on facebook? How about on your iphone, trying to figure out how to tweet in less than 140 characters the mishaps of your previous night's bar hopping on the Lower East Side? (or staying at home and innocently playing board games while drinking Sprite, for the underage).
The answer? Probably many, many hours.
So why don't you sacrifice some of those hours and get outside and do some good while having fun?! Here are some upcoming volunteer opportunies that are guarenteed to lend a helping hand while providing you with solid, rewarding fun.
It seems that in the past few years, our national attitude about food and nutrition has spiraled off into two different directions. On the one hand, there has been an explosion of all things "healthy"- phrases like organic, all-natural, and un-processed have been flooding our grocery aisles. The irony to this new health craze is a parallel preoccupation with cheap fast food; Taco Bell's "Why Pay More" motto includes an 89-cent Potato Taco, and McDonald's holds faithful to their Dollar Menu with items such as the McDouble, a Sausage Biscuit, and a Hot Fudge Sundae.
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