CAA's Advocacy Video

Check out Compassionate Action for Animals' four-minute video on our advocacy efforts! This exciting video features footage compiled from our outreach and community building activities over an upbeat soundtrack. Watch the video.

Feel inspired? Fill out our online volunteer form or make a financial contribution.

Involved with film production? CAA and Vegan Outreach are in the final stages of our new video on the effectiveness of leafleting. If you can provide us additional help with production, editing, or reviewing, please contact us at info@ExploreVeg.org or call us at 612-626-5785.

Do It Green's Sustainable Food Taste-Off

To celebrate new dietary resolutions, the Twin Cities' Do It Green! Resource Center invites you to a tasty animal-friendly taste-off.

How it works: bring a prepared dish from one of three categories (appetizer/salad, main dish, or dessert), along with its recipe. All submissions must be vegan, primarily organic, and primarily locally-sourced. A panel of judges will award prizes for the recipes, and--best of all--you'll get to taste your way to some new favorite recipes!

Time: Thursday January 31st, 6-7 p.m.
Location: Do It Green! Resource Center, 2405 Hennepin Ave. S., Minneapolis

Article: Lifestyle changes can curb climate change: IPCC chief

As published by Agence France Presse
January 16, 2008

Don't eat meat, ride a bike, and be a frugal shopper - that's how you can help brake global warming, the head of the United Nation's Nobel Prize-winning scientific panel on climate change said Tuesday.

The 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), issued last year, highlights "the importance of lifestyle changes," said Rajendra Pachauri at a press conference in Paris.

"This is something that the IPCC was afraid to say earlier, but now we have said it."

A vegetarian, the Indian economist made a plea for people around the world to tame their carnivorous impulses.

Read the full article.

Support the Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare!

The The World Society For the Protection of Animals has created a Universal Declaration to recognize animals as sentient beings. Once the petition gets 10 million signatures (over 1 million have signed so far), the petition will be delivered to the General Assembly of the United Nations. It's very easy to visit the website and sign the petition. Don't forget to tell your friends and family to sign as well. Let's reach 10 million signatures!