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Caring about the environment has become a movement popular beyond hippie and vegan businesses. Now businesses everywhere want to appear environmentally friendly, with green products, recycling initiatives and charities.
Operation Come Home launched its newest employment program at the beginning of February to provide local restaurants with skilled workers drawn from the ranks of homeless youth. 
Jason Chen, Centretown NewsShauna MacLeod works with Miguel Briere in the kitchen at Operation Come Home's FoodWorks programs.
A film festival organized by the environment group Ottawa Riverkeeper is set to raise funds for a project that will help local residents monitor water quality in the river themselves rather than wait for information from city authorities.
Ottawa-area organizations are trying to empower members of the city’s black community to affect positive, long-term change following Black History Month. 
Matthew Lee, Centretown NewsCanadian Forces Sgt Gareth Webb chats with Brittney Powell Lee during Jaku Konbit's career fair.