allaboutwomen

It's New Year's Eve again, and whether you’re getting ready to relax or paint the town, we kind lifers have a lot to celebrate! We also have a lot of work to do in the next year – but before we get to that, I’d like recap some of the successes we’ve had this year.

Congress passed a child nutrition bill that will make school lunches a little bit healthier (not perfect, but it’s progress!) Congress also passed a food safety bill that will empower the FDA to prevent food contamination (also not perfect, but we will take it for now!) NASA halted its proposed radiation experiments on squirrel monkeys – what a major, precedent-setting victory. I’m so happy about this one! Los Angeles enacted a plastic bag ban for all unincorporated areas in LA County (partial victory – let’s lobby our cities to do the same if they haven’t already!) A bunch of major power players became vegan! (Bill Clinton, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Biz Stone, Steve Wynn…can’t wait to see who else goes veg in 2011)

2010 was an amazing year! Let’s all continue to make the world a kinder place in 2011. What are your kind priorities for this coming year?