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After being out in chilly winter weather, coming into a warm, cozy home for a hot meal is comforting. But warm temperatures are comfortable for bacteria as well, and leftovers should not be left out under conditions where they can grow and cause foodborne illness. The safest place for leftovers - winter, spring, summer, or fall - is in the refrigerator where they can "chill out."
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Campylobacter jejuni, Clostridium botulinum, Clostridium perfringens, Escherichia coli O157:H7, Salmonella, Streptococcus (Group A), Listeria monocytogenes, Shigella, and Staphylococcus aureus are nine prominent pathogens that concern food safety experts. When ingested on food, they or their toxic products can cause foodborne illness. Pathogenic bacteria can grow in just about any food, but prefer meat, poultry, seafood, eggs, and dairy products, as well as vegetables such as beans, grains, and other low acid foods.
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Some bacteria can double their numbers every 20 minutes at temperatures above 40°F. In 2 hours, these bacteria can become so great in number that they may cause an illness or form toxins that cause illness.
Pathogenic bacteria can be found on raw meat and poultry products. If these foods are refrigerated, most of the pathogens do not reproduce, and those that do, grow slowly. They will be destroyed when the product is cooked. If raw products are left out at warmer temperatures, these pathogens can produce a heat-stable toxin that might not be destroyed by cooking.
Pathogenic bacteria do not generally affect the taste, smell, or appearance of a food. In other words, one cannot tell that a food has been mishandled or is dangerous to eat. For example, food that has been left too long on the counter may be dangerous to eat, but could smell and look fine. If a food has been left in the "Danger Zone" for more than 2 hours, discard it, even though it may look and smell good. Never taste a food to see if it is spoiled.
Cold temperatures (below 40°F) can significantly slow down bacterial growth, but only heat (above 140°F) can destroy bacteria.
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- Divide cooked foods into shallow containers for rapid cooling.
- Stir soups and stews to speed the release of heat.
- A large cut of meat or whole poultry should be divided into smaller pieces and wrapped separately or placed in shallow containers before refrigerating.
- Cover containers and refrigerate within 2 hours.
- Store in the refrigerator and use within 4 days, or freeze and use within 2 to 3 months for best flavor and moistness.
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It has been a while since I had a home I absolutely adore! Ice & I recently created a lovely little farm house to spend some time cuddling as the weather becomes cooler! I have to say I found my match in Ice he loves prims as much as I do and is an amazing landscaper/decorator. The only issue is that now……I have to share the primmys! >:]
Please come on into our home!
Please note all the photos below have not been edited just cropped, windlight settings from in-world and on a few I did make them a bit lighter so the items could be seen better.
This is our front yard which as you can see has been terraformed to create little rolling hills and we covered the entire plot/ground with various sizes, domes, circles and squares of grass from Kidd Creations. It gave the property a sense of depth and comfy-ness (Yes I made this word up!) The sim is currently textured with Botanicals Medium Manicured Grass MediumTexture.
Items Featured: Tobias Novi Elies Trees ; LISP – Tree Seat Baa&Chirp
Of course we needed a barn! That is Ice's man cave… it is actually 2 buildings which can be seen in the next 2 photos. He now has a place to escape when I am rattling around being fussy :P
Items Featured: .: ROXY SHOP:. – Stable (Barn) ; *aG* Wind Mill ; Kidd Creations Grasses ; La'Licious Garden Gnomes & Potting Tray ; *fN* Sunflowers Mesh
It proved to be more difficult than we had anticipated finding a barn we loved. The Roxy Stable had a lot of great details in it; the only issue we found is that it is no mod so Ice is a wee bit disappointed because he wanted to take the stables out and park his tractor in there. The tractor he is obsessed with…so instead it is parked in the grass! -_-
The 'man cave' featured above is his own area I haven't touched it… too much!
Items Featured: POST: Normanna Hayshed ; Pilot Feeny Food Tray, Morello Work Out Bench & Haywood Pipe Lamp
The infamous tractor…parked in the yard! It has poses so someone can ride in the bucket and the arms extend up and down with a lot of other lovely details it is really well made!
Items featured: Tractor by Larissa Vacano ; Rochambeau – Sculpted Road ; The Domineaux Effect Cottage Dock ~ Weathered ; Kidd Creations Grasses ; LISP Tree Baa & Chirp Seat ; Post Normanna Shed ; {what next} Fall Garden Tree Lantern
These amazing stone walls line the perimeter of the house and are mod so the color was tinted in various sections to add a little bit more detail! While some might say I was just wasting prims *coughs* I think these few bits along the wall make the place seem more natural!
Items Featured: LAQ Décor – Wall ; Roxy Standing Faucet w/ Bucket ; La'Licious Strawberry Bucket ; Kari Cusak Skybox (The bags were the box for this skybox I love them!!) ; Roxy Stable in the background ; Rochambeau – Sculpted Road ; fucifino country side ladder
Our field of wheat and pumppppkinsss! There are a lot of pumpkins stretching along the wall they are my favorite!
Items Featured: New Trails – Pumpkins ; Kidd Creations – Wheat Grass ; ThisNThat -Scarecrow, Litte Boxes Fruit Crates, AAA Sculpty Creations – Grazing Sheep ; Artelleri Wheelbarrow, Rake & Leaves ; Estequal – Rocks
I was very lucky Ice did not find this home too girly! It was love at first sight on marketplace and I have been dying for a Victorian style home in SL but the choices are very limited. Most of the Victorian homes in world still have alpha windows :S I did beg and plead with Maxwell Graf of Rustica to make one. =) Maybe he will! *HINT HINT*
Items Featured: The Rural Route – and Something Blue Plus 2 Cottage ; Estequal – Rocks ; LAQ Decor – Walls, Kidd Creations Grasses ; Rochambeau – Sculpted Road
The cottage comes with fabulous built-in stone arches just underneath the porch perfect spaces for small gardens.
Items Featured in Garden One: La'Licious Garden Gnomes ; *fN* Mesh Sunflowers ; Cheeky Pea Margaret Outdoor Bed, Backyard Cinema Tree & Pumpking Hanging Flowers ; {what
next} Cottage Mailbox
Items Featured in Garden Two: Herbaly's Gmok the Wise ; Artic Greenhouse – Ivy Covered Rock ; *fN* Mesh Sunflowers ; Cheeky Pea/Pilot Backyard Cinema Trees ; {what next} Burbank Rocking Chair
The front porch!
Items Featured: Urbanized Hydrangea (These plants were from the If I were Rich Hunt a team effort between Urbanized & Artic Greenhouse) ; Cheeky Pea – Hanging Pumpkin Flowers ; {what next} Cottage Mailbox ; Baffle! Pumpkin Topiary
This version of the cottage is the largest and the stairs in the open hallway lead to the second floor.
Items Featured: Laynii Resident's Pumpkin Bucket with Ivy (My sissy in law is very talented!) ; LISP Piano & Chair ; The Loft – Potted Ivy ; Baffle – Symphony/Violin ; LAQ Decor – Glass Cabinet ; :NsB:. DANTE Woods (Wood leaning against the wall in the corner) ; UrbanizeD – "Framed Love For Birds" Limited Edition ; theosophy} Ilston Candlesticks
This little sitting area is right by the front door when you enter our cottage.
Items Featured: Cheeky Pea Old Saybrook Daybed & Accessories ; Floorplan – Shutter Frame ; La'Licious – Little Game Table ; {what next} Wellies (rainboots!) ; Un Jour Artwork by Piedra Lubitsch for UrbanizeD 2011(Limited Edition)
As they say…magic happens here lol. Actually, some magic did happen here when we bought this cottage! The room used to end at the seam you can see in the floor about mid-way through the room and there was a railing so the rooms below could be seen. This original construction of the cottage did not leave us enough space to have a small bath area. Again my mister fix-it husband modified the house and doubled the size of our bedroom. We have kept this room very simple.
Items Featured: Trompe Loeil – Morning Light Bathtub ; Cheeky Pea – Maude Bed & Stilte Massage Table ; Dutchie Male Dom Chair ; [EoD] End of Daze Designs – My Pillow ; LISP – Woodburning Stove, Enamel Deer Kettle & Hot Chocolate Mugs, Pilot – Adult Toy Box
A close up of the bathroom area which again was all kept very simple because of the close space. The eaves of the roof make the room feel comfortable without having to stuff prims in every corner!
Items Featured: Trompe Loeil – Morning Light Bathtub, Basket of Towels & Hanging Rack of Towels, LISP – Shepherd Snuggle Blanket & Rug & Antler Lights
Isla of Cheeky Pea generously made this mesh Maude Bed as part of one of the hunts we sponsored here at the magazine and I adore it! The huge fluffy pillows are cascading onto the ground!
Items Featured: Cheeky Pea – Maude Bed, Stilte Massage Table ; Pilot – Adult Toy Box :o ; LISP – Sheperd Rug & Mirrors
These are the two rooms below our extended bedroom that used to be visible from the second floor. The ceiling is now covered with a piece of the bedroom floor instead of vaulted. It really looked cute either way! This is my favorite kitchen – ever.
A closer look at the kitchen!
Items Featured: LISP Vine "Vite" Bistro Kitchen Set (It came with all of the furniture and accessories shown which was amazing! The ones I added I have listed) ; LISP Fairy Alice Wall Plates ; The Loft – Butcher Block ; {what next} Baking Day Wall Print (It's so cute it says: Keep Calm & BAKE CUPCAKES)
The kitchen island and bakery >:)
Items Featured: LISP Vine "Vite" Bistro Kitchen Set; {what next} Laurel Cottage Kitchen Recipe Book & Stand, Pastry & Pin, Retro Telephone, & Cafe Vintage Wall Prints ; (iTuTu) coffee mill ; [*Art Dummy!] vintage stool
The dining room – this table is amazing all of the scenes it can rez! Very romantic ;)
Items Featured: LAQ Decor – Dinner Table (Antique) & Main Bookcase
The nursery! We have a son, Goncalo, and this is his little room :)
Items Featured: Bebotes – Shelf Baby ; Zooby Summer Fairy Changing Table, Nighttime Moon Crib, Bloom Pink Bathtub & Summer Fairy Closet White ; Teddy Bear Love – Me Love Cookies Bear (Made for me by my mommy, Jewell Munro)
The nursery continued :D
Items Featured: [North West] Triple frames on a string ; Little Boxes – Vintage Toys ; *Y's HOUSE* Sofa03
This used to be two very small bedrooms divided just off the hallway, but Ice was able to modify the house a bit and create a larger family room/living room area and a nursery.
Items Featured: LISP Anna Set (Lamp, Coffee Table, Couch, Chairs w/ Ottoman, Birds, Cabinet) & The Groovy Lispette Record Player & Speakers ; {what next} Pop-Shot Camera, Seasons Frames (the tree), Autumn Frame Collage ; The Loft – Bowl of Lillies & Maxwell Rug ; Royal Living Magazine Vol. 12 (Required Reading <3 )
The living/family room continued…this door leads to our backyard! One of our most favorite places!
Items Featured: The Loft – Bowl of Lillies, Maxwell Rug & Bailey Outdoor Fireplace ; LISP Anna Chair, Coffee Table & Ottoman, Pilot – Bridges Bar Cart ; {What Next} Pop-Shot Camera ; Royal Living Magazine Vol. 12! ; *chronokit* frame (This item is FREE! It has a texture change and resize script and it also will texture change through your photos!) We happen to have a beautiful piece by Jack Vettriano in this frame.
Our backyard which came out so beautiful and I had cannot take any credit! Ice made those wooden areas and what a difference this simple one prim item made. The entire yard is covered with grasses from Kidd Creations both the long and short versions.
Items Featured: [EoD] End of Daze Designs – Paint Set, Cheeky Pea/Pilot – Back Yard Cinema Set, LISP Serenity Hot Tub, LAQ Decor – Wall
A different view on our cinema :)
Items Featured: Cheeky Pea/Pilot – Backyard Cinema ; Tobias Novi – Trees ; Kidd Creations – Grasses
The backyard tubby!
Items Featured: LISP – Serenity Springs Hot Tub Set ; Baffle! Barrels ; UrbanizeD – Mini Garden "Dino Egg" ; Kidd Creations – Grasses
Thank you very much for taking a photo tour of our home! We hope you enjoyed our little farm! Sad to see you leave!
Gracie's Outfit (for our fashionistas): [Cynful] Zia 2.0 Mesh Jeans, Mandala – Sinra Bracelets, LeLutka – Ariel mesh Hair, Belleza Skin (OFC!), Poetic Eyes <3, Tulip – Halter Top, Redgrave Shews
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Social capital is a powerful resource for individuals and communities. For individuals embedded in dense social networks, these networks and the attendant norms of trust and reciprocity strongly shape individuals' ability to land jobs, earn higher salaries, and be happier and healthier. But, even for those not in the networks, having neighbors who know and trust one another affords benefits in some domains: better performing local government, safer streets, faster economic growth and better performing schools, among other public goods.
For sure social capital can be used toward negative ends: Al Qaeda, the Crips and the Bloods, the Michigan Militia are all examples where group members can accomplish things that they could not accomplish individually (because of group social capital). That said, the literature supports that the vast majority of what social capital is used for is to produce positive ends, not negative ones.
But why? What makes social capital so powerful?
Robert Putnam and I had always focused on information-flows as the key mechanism. So these social networks:
- enable individuals to access valuable information: how to get something done, hear of job leads, learn how better to promote one's health, find out what is happening in a community, etc.; or
- help individuals find partners for joint economic transactions (e.g., to know with whom to partner in business, to close a sale to a friend or a friend of a friend, to locate a neighbor with whom one can exchange tools or expertise); or
- spread reputations of members (or neighbors or local merchants) which causes all people in these networks to behave in a more trustworthy manner and facilitates altruism. There is always a short-term gain to be had from cheating someone, but if the social networks quickly spread the information that one cannot be trusted, this short-term gain is swamped by the lost future opportunity to do business with others; thus it becomes more rational to be honest and trustworthy in communities (physical or otherwise) with strong social networks. Individuals are also likely to be kinder and more altruistic toward others because they know that "what goes around comes around" in densely inter-connected networks and communities; and
- facilitate collective action: it is easier to mobilize others around some shared goal like politics or zoning or improving trash pick-up if others in the community already know and trust you, rather than your having to build those social relationships from scratch.
But Connected (by Nick Christakis and James Fowler) raises a different frame for thinking about this issue: network effects or contagion. Are there properties of the networks themselves that help spread practices, independent of the flow of information? This is difficult to answer fully since much of their evidence comes from the Framingham Heart Study where they know who people's friends are but not what they are doing with each other or what they are saying to each other.
That said, some of their results can be explained by information flows (e.g., political influence, or getting flu shots), but some seem likely to be working through other channels and not through information-flows (e.g., happiness or loneliness cascades).
In these "network effects" or contagion, Fowler & Christakis typically find that the strongest "network" effects are directly with one's friends (one degree of separation), but these effects also ripple out two more levels to friends of one's friends (two degrees) and friends of the friends of one's friends (three degrees). As one would expect, much like a stone dropped in a pond, the ripples get smaller as one moves out. In fact they refer to the "Three Degrees of Influence" Rule that effects are typically only seen up to three degrees out and not further: in the spread of happiness, political views, weight gain, obesity, and smoking. For example, in happiness, if one is happy, one degree out (controlling for other factors), one's friends are 15% happier, at 2 degrees of separation they are 10% happier, and they are 6% happier at 3 degrees of separation. For obesity, the average obese American is more likely to have obese friends, one, two and three degrees of separation out, but not further. Quitting smoking has diminishing effects out to three degrees. For political influence, they note a "get-out-the-vote" experiment that shows that knocking on a stranger's door and urging the resident to support a recycling initiative had a 10% impact on his/her likelihood to vote for the initiative; what was noteworthy to Christakis and Fowler is that the door-knocking made the spouse (who was not at the door) 6% more likely to support the recycling initiative based on communication with his/her spouse. They conjecture that if this 60% social pass-through rate of political appeals (6% for spouse vs. 10% for person answering door) applied to one's friends and if everyone had 2 friends, then one person urging friends to vote a certain way would have a 10% impact on one's friends, a 6% impact on one's friends' friends (2 degrees) and a 3.6% impact 3 degrees out. Multiplying these political effects all the way through, one vote could create a 30x multiplier. [The example is eye-opening and suggests that voting and political persuasion may be less irrational than thought, but also is based on a huge number of assumptions and assumes no cross-competing messages from friends.]
In an experiment on altrusim (explained in this post) Christakis & Fowler found that $1.00 of altruism, ultimately produced $1.05 of multiplier effect ($.20 one ripple out with 3 others and $.05 of altruism two ripples out with 9 others).
Christakis and Fowler, in their book, talk about contagion effects in voting, suicide, loneliness, depression, happiness, violence, STDs, number of sexual partners, binge drinking, back pain, and getting flu shots, among others. [One summary of many of their findings, which they note, is "You make me sick!"]
Why do these effects only reach out 3 degrees of influence? Christakis & Fowler suggest 4 potential explanations.
1) intrinsic decay: C&F liken this to a game of telephone where as the information gets repeated, the content gets lost, or the passion and knowledge of the initiator gets dissipated.
2) Instability of ties: because of what is known as "triadic closure", if A is friends with B and B is friends with C, it is likely that A will become friends with C. Because of this, closer-in ties between people have more routes connecting them, and further out ties are more dependent on only one pathway connecting them. For example, assume Abby and Fran were friends 3 degrees removed via Bert and via Charles. If any of these intervening friendships end (say Bert is no longer friends with Charles), Abby loses her tie to Fran. Thus, these outer ties are much less stable and averaged across all the "3 degrees of influence" friendships, many more may have zero effect because the path of influence dies out as friends change.
3) cross-information: as one gets further out away from you, say the friends of the friends of your friends, all of these folks are getting lots of cross-stimuli from lots of other sources (many of which may come from different clusters with different habits or values) and these cross-stimuli start to cancel each other out.
4) evolutionary biology: C&F note that humans evolved in small groups that had a maximum of three degrees of separation so it may be that we became more attuned to being influenced by folks who were in a position to alter our gene pool.
So what are the network influences independent of communication. There seem like 6 possible channels, and often it is hard to separate one from the other, although some may make more sense for the spread of behaviors and others may make more sense for spread of attitudes or emotions:
1) homophily: "Homophily" is the practice of befriending others like you — "birds of a feather flock together." Being friends with people who are different than you can be stressful. This is why in mates and in friends we are likely to choose others with whom we have a lot in common — think of arguments you've had with friends about where to go for dinner or what is right or wrong with the world when those friends have very different tastes or politics. For this reason, one reason for increased clustering over time of obese people or smokers or binge drinkers is that it is stressful to be in groups where one is the minority and either constantly noodging others to change their behavior or else your finding yourself frequently doing what your friends want to and what you do not (e.g., eat fast food, smoke, or listen to heavy metal rock music). As a consequence, people may vote with their feet and form new ties or strengthen ties with others with whom they have more in common.
2) norms/reference groups/culture/peer pressure: we often measure the reasonableness of our behavior against our friends. For example, if our teen friends have all had 6 sexual partners in the last year, then repartnering seems far more normal than if one is friends with a group that is heavily monogamous. Ditto with obesity or smoking or other possible traits or behaviors.
3) subconscious/imitation: as suggested with "emotion" below, sometimes we mirror others' behavior or emotions without even thinking about it. C&F say it makes sense to think of people as subsconsciously reacting to those around them without being aware of any larger pattern. They talk about processes by which a "wave" at a sporting event takes place, or fish swim in unison, or geese fly in a V-formation, or crickets become synchronized — all of these happen by individuals mirroring those around them. And in the process, emergent properties of the group arise (much like a cake takes on the taste unlike any of its individual ingredients).
4) emotions: C&F note that emotions actually affect our physical being — our voices, our faces, our posture. In experiments, people actually "catch emotions": others become happier by spending time around happy people or sadder by hanging out with depressed individuals. In experiments, smiling waiters get bigger tips. It seems quite plausible that cascades like loneliness, happiness, depression, etc. could spread simply from emotional states, independent of any information flowing through these friendships.
5) social invitations for shared action: friends often invite friends to do things — that's part of friendship. For behaviors, one of the ways they can spread through networks is that, for example, thin friends could invite friends to exercise more, or obese friends could encourage friends to get ice cream together, or smokers could encourage others to leave the dance for a cig.
Connected notes that it is often hard, for example, to tell imitation and norms apart, "When a man gives up his motorcycle after getting hitched, is he copying his wife's behavior (she doesn't have a motorcycle) or adopting a new norm (the infernal things are unsafe?)"
Connected also notes how behaviors or attitudes can spread several social links out, even without the intervening link changing. They suggest that Amy could have a friend Maria who has a friend Heather. (Amy and Heather don't know one another.) Heather gains weight. Maria, who really likes Heather, becomes less judgmental of her weight and gradually less judgmental of obesity in general. Maria doesn't change her behavior but when Amy stops exercising with Maria, Maria is less likely to pressure her to resume. Thus Heather's obesity changes Amy via Maria (by Maria no longer urging her to keep exercising), but Maria doesn't change her behavior and Amy and Heather don't know one another.
It's interesting stuff to ponder and makes one think more expansively about the role and mechanisms of social capital. It also evokes a conversation with a Saguaro Seminar participant back in 1998 concerning whether black kids and white kids doing sidewalk painting together on the steps of an art museum could promote inter-racial trust, even if the black kids and white kids didn't know each other, didn't talk to one another and never met again. [My hunch is yes, depending on the strength of their pre-existing beliefs about inter-racial trust, but that talking could make the exchange far more powerful.] Another Saguaro participant wondered whether singing together in a chorus helps build social capital, even if one never has a conversation directly with another member of the chorus. (In the latter example, in addition to being highly unlikely, you are at least getting some non-verbal information over time from the other choral members about their trustworthiness: do they come regularly and on time, do they respectfully listen to and follow the choralmeister?)
I welcome your thoughts.
For more on the network effects, read pp. 24-30, 25-43 and 112-115 in Connected.


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★★★★★ - "The hot water exit hose on my water heater failed while I was on vacation, My entire home was filled with 2" of hot water for five days. National response team was recommended and boy am I happy. They were there in 45 minutes with a complete group to assess the damage, start the dehumidification process,pack,label, and inventory furniture and all personal property. They took great care with my belongings and went to work preparing for the reconstruction process. Josh, Matt, Salvador and the team worked with me to keep me on track."
Paul Rossi in San Carlos, CA
★★★★★ - "In a moment of stupidity I almost set my kitchen on fire, filling my home with the most noxious plastic black smoke. After the fire dept came, I knew that toxic smell would not go away on it's own and was very unhealthy.
Josh was amazing, I was quite stressed out and he was really responsive, helpful and made me laugh when I really needed it the most. He worked directly with my home owners insurance and calmed me when I was getting anxious. He even got me in contact with a great linen, carpet cleaner to haul my items away for professional cleaning.
After two nights of living in a hotel I came home to no smell and the most clean and organized home ever. A big thank you to Jennifer and Rocio for your kindness, more laughs and a thorough job on the cleaning process.
Thank you!!!"
Kristine in Petaluma, CA
★★★★★ - "Salvador was incredible! He was available when I called and also responded to text messages almost immediately. We had water damage and wanted to make sure it was handled properly and quickly. Salvador did just that! He was able to come out the same day, and was also able to work around our schedule. We could not have asked for a faster, more professional or more pleasant response from any company. We are incredibly pleased we chose to work with him. We definitely recommend this company!"
Lisa in San Ramon, CA
★★★★★ - "NRT did a great job! Responsive, flexible and did high quality work. They worked with my insurance adjuster to be as fair as possible. Highly recommend!"
Chris and Kendra in Alameda, CA
★★★★★ - "National Response Team was so great to work with. We had water damage in our family room and Josh was so helpful diagnosing the problem. His whole team was so professional, friendly and clean. Everything was expertly handled and documented with pictures for our records. I would highly recommend Josh at National Response Team for anyone in need of repairs. It was a pleasure doing business with them and I know who to call if I ever find myself in a desperate situation again!"
Charlotte in Santa Rosa, CA
★★★★★ - "Thank you to Josh and his team of experts for their five star service. They were efficient, organized and extremely attentive to our needs. We had a main sewer break and they were here within a few hours. Matt and his team assessed the situation, put a plan of action together and moved forward quickly. They were patient, always answered my questions and concerns and that helped me get through this stressful situation. NRT are the experts in their field and I highly recommend them."
Pat in Petaluma, CA
★★★★★ - "Hired them to fix some water damage. They were very quick to respond and carried out the work efficiently. I got two bids and their pricing initial pricing was higher than the other bid. But after some negotiating, they agreed to beat the other bid and start the work straight away."
Stephen in Mill Valley, CA
★★★★★ - "These guys were amazing. They answered the phone in off hours on the weekend, got there within one hour, and did a fantastic job cleaning and drying my condo. They knew exactly what needed to be done, and were courteous and responsive through the multi-day process. They also referred me to a general contractor to do the needed repairs. I would highly recommend National Response Team!"
Rita in Berkeley, CA
★★★★★ - "Josh and Salvador were awesome, our washing machine overflowed while we were out at Target. Our entire lower living was soaked. And the drywall was soaking up water like a sponge. Their equipment was able to dry out the carpet and the walls quickly without having to put a claim on our insurance. Their rates were very reasonable and have no problem dealing with your insurance company if it needed, making the whole process totally seem less. I would recommend this company to a friend or relative anytime."
Brooks and Samantha in Rohnert Park, CA
★★★★★ - ""Salvador is super responsive and really helpful over the phone. We had an issue with sewage damage and he gave a very affordable price for clean-up compared to other companies. Because it was a huge emergency, he came out on a weekend to check out the problem and scheduled an appointment that Monday. The best thing is, he's VERY responsive over phone and text!""
Anthony A. in San Francisco, CA
★★★★☆ - "NRT provided mold remediation services to my home. Their staff was friendly and thorough. They showed up on time, and were most professional. They accommodated a special request which required some creativity on their part. They performed a difficult job while being careful of my home and it's contents. I would use their services again if ever needed."
JB in Mill Valley, CA
★★★★★ - ""Salvador did exceptional work! Our apartment had intense smoke damage from a fire and a smell we though would never come out. They were in and out in just a couple days and EVERYTHING was spotless (probably cleaner than when we moved in) and there was no scent of smoke at all. NRT worked with our insurance adjustor and kept us in the loop during the entire process. Wonderful people, wonderful work!""
Kevin E. in San Francisco, CA
★★★★★ - "NRT was incredibly helpful and easy to work with. NRT was referred to us by our real estate agent. She had worked with other mold removal companies who had trumped up mold issues to shore up business but had never had that experience with NRT before. I'm glad I called them. They were very responsive by phone, email and text. They were able to set up appointments quickly and resolve the issue. I would definitely use them again although I hope I never have to. Thanks NRT!!!!!!"
Joanna A. in Kentfield, CA
★★★★★ - "We have used Salvador and National Response Team two years in a row to mitigate flood damage in our home in the Berkeley Hills (the first year flooding was due to a malfunctioning sump pump, the second year was due to a combination of heavy rains and clogged storm drains). Simply put, they're amazing. Responsive, quick (came out within an hour on a Sunday morning after my frantic phone call this last time), professional, flexible, kind, honest, and fair. They worked with our insurance adjuster to get the most coverage possible, and consistently went above and beyond to responsibly control costs, keep us happy, and get the job done as quickly and painlessly as possible. They also referred us to an excellent contractor to do the necessary repairs once the drying out was done. If you ever are in the unfortunate position of having your house flood, call these guys. You won't regret it."
David N. in Berkeley, CA
★★★★★ - "Now that you have found NRT, I recommend you don't bother contacting any other companies. From the moment we spoke to NRT we experienced 5-star service. We had a slow water leak into the floor of our rental property, and NRT immediately identified the problem, presenting a clear and sound plan for remediation. NRT is an expert in their field, and their customer services skills are top notch. They kept us in the loop and educated us through the entire remediation process. In comparison, we paid to get a second bid from a large franchise company, and that company did not even diagnose the problem correctly. We feel lucky to have found NRT through word of mouth. And because quality people know quality people, NRT recommended several other vendors who we used and also provided amazing customer service during a difficult time. NRT will solve your problem effectively, efficiently and at a reasonable cost. Call them now, you will be glad you did."
Linda K. in Belmont, CA
★★★★★ - "This winter I came home from trip to a flooded house. Our roof leaked during a storm and soaked my daughters entire bedroom and the garage below. The roofer said I should call these guys and Sal came with his crew in less that 2 hours on Sunday! They helped me contact the Farmers claims department and removed the wet carpet before setting up their drying machines. THe equipment was noisy but it worked and that's what matters. They did a really great job...they even moved some of my daughter's things to the other room. I'm very glad I was referred to them. I hope to never need them again but I will be sure to call NRT for any future flooding."
Jessica in Tiburon, CA


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Nancy's Gone Green, based in Framingham, Mass., is just one of many eco-friendly clothing boutiques that are springing up across the U.S., offering one-of-a-kind designs you won't find in chain stores.
We stumbled on them via Green America, which is highlighting 10 green clothiers who are finalists for this summer's "People & Planet Award." The contestants are all green businesses that operate with an ethical supply chain (i.e., they don't use sweatshops). The winner will be chosen by online viewers who can vote here.
All of the companies seem deserving, so vote for your favorite one.
We're highlighting Nancy's Gone Green because we liked how they are selling vintage, upcycled and new clothing. Their green ambitions seem to know no bounds, as we found out when we spoke with Mary Savoca, who with her mom, Nancy Savoca, has been wrapped up in the vintage and green clothing scene for the past six years. The mother-daughter team own the company, which sells locally and online.
Tell me about your design aesthetics, your core focus?
"As you saw from our site we're definitely eclectic. We draw insipiration from a lot of different places, but in general I think what we're trying to do is to defy what a lot of poeple think of when they think of green products. So, a lot of people envision a lot of beige and brown and things that are really neutral, kind of loose fitting, plain kind of clothing, and for us we're really going for REALLY FUN bright colors, really well fitted flattering clothes that are on trend, not trendy, because trendy isn't really eco-friendly, those are throwaway clothes"
"We're looking for things that are really flattering, generally pretty feminine that's kind of our aesthetic and bright colors, fun prints that people may not think of when they think of green fashion.
Do you think people still think of green fashion as that off-white T-shirt with a logo on it?
"There's a growing community of people who realize that you don't have to sacrifice style to wear green fashion, but I think the larger public still sees it as overpriced, ugly, potato-sack clothes and it really isn't anymore. We're trying to create something that's really appealing to everyone, even some poeple who are not as tuned in to the green movement as we are and our customers are. That's really our ultiamte goal is to pull in people who really haven't thought about this sort of thing before because they love the products, and then have them say 'Oh wow, it's organic and it's fair trade and it's not even that expensive! This is great why don't I buy all my clothes this way. That's really our goal in everything we do."
So how did you decide to form a company with your mom?
"When I was a senior in high school, my mom and I had started selling a lot of clothes on eBay, used clothes, vintage clothes. We've always been really into hunting for vintage clothing. So we got started with the vintage, we really loved it and we were making money. So I of got the entrepreneur bug and really wanted to start soemthign together with my mom. So we started to get serious about the vintage clothing and see it as a real business and in time it evolved to a point in time where we wanted to be selling not just one of a kind items, but something that came in more quantities. It made sense to do eco-friendly clothing because it went right in line with the recycling concepts we were already doing.
Then my mom's line, Re:awakened, which is an upcycled clothing collection, it's kind of the halfway point (between vintage and new eco-clothing) because what she does is she takes either vintage fabric or gently used fabric and reworks it into new designs. So she's sort of crosing into an area inbetween our vintage clothing and the new green clothing.
One thing that's very interesting about your business is that you have this range of vintage clothing and then a mix of offerings, new and upcycled. Who designs the new clothing that you're retailing?
The new stuff, if you just go to clothing on our site, the new stuff is done by several dozen designers that we work with. So we're working with a lot of Fair Trade Cooperatives, that are either working with organic fabrics or recycled fabrics. There's a lot of really exciting things that are happening now with recycled polyester. That's one of the fabrics that's getting really big.
But we work with mostly global, Fair Trade coops, and right now we're trying to connect a lot more with Made in the USA workshops and we're making connections with very local producers, which is exciting. Because a lot of the American eco-fashion is prohibitively expensive. And most of it is not eco-friendly, there may be a line that's organic, but it's very small and very limited.
For me, when I've been looking for Made in the USA eco-lines, there are lines that are selling an luxury T-shirt for $160 or whatever and we just can't sell that, to almost everyone. And we're not interested in seeking out the customers who are willing pay $160 for a product. We want to sell to regular people. We're looking for products that a regular person that can buy and get behind.
Is it hard competing in the clothing market, generally, against corporations that pay low wages and operate on volumes with low margins? How do you compete?
I have to say that most of our customers right now are already convinced that the eco and fair labor products are what they want to buy. But we see a lot of opportunity in creating unique designs that you can't buy anywhere else…Clothing with block printing or embroidery, stuff you cannot find at the mall.
And our prices aren't that high! Our tops are under $50 and most of our dresses are under $100. We can't compete with H&M or Walmart.
But you're selling a different product than what those stores offer? Yes.
You want to sell an ethical and green product; that encompasses a lot, how do you accomplish this goal?
Becoming a member of Green America was really helpful. That helped us figure out the 360 degrees of becoming an ethical company…It's not just the material we're using and the labor. It includes trying to be more local.
We also always looking for things that use organic fabric or recycled fabric or natural materials, like among our accessories, there's jewelry made from nuts and seeds and recycled metals….
Then in terms of the labor side of things, everything is either made in the U.S. or follows fair labor practices. For the fair labor aspect of it, a lotof designers are fair trade certified, and we have a close relationship with them. Some of the smaller producers are taking steps in that direction. They're maybe too small to be certified but they care for their workers and believe in paying a living wage.
What can you tell us about your moves toward using more local producers?
We ourselves are looking at doing some local production here in Boston. There's a lot of it already in New York City and LA. Hyperlocal is something we're getting very excited about. We have a vision of New England becoming a center for eco-friendly production.
What we're working on are basically some creative designs that are really modern. We're again looking for interesting colors, prints and shapes that flatter a woman's body. A lot of this will be happening in the spring.