The Hoop Fund, a new kind of online marketplace founded by a former Coke executive, lets consumers make loans to fair trade businesses worldwide, in $25 increments -- and also buy the products from the companies they're supporting.READ»
Fair Trade food? That's old hat. Get ready for Fair Trade Certified clothing, courtesy of TransFair USA. The nonprofit, which is the only third-party fair trade-certifier in the U.S., announced this week that it is launching Fair ...READ»
This morning, guests on the NPR News program, The
Takeaway, discussed whether Apple could become the first Fair Trade tech
company, in light of the 10 worker suicides at the Taiwanese electronics
manufacturer, Foxconn. ...READ»
Ben & Jerry's has managed to cultivate such a sustainable aura that we're surprised this hasn't happened before: The ice cream giant announced a plan this week to go fully Fair Trade by 2013. That means all of the 121 chunks and ...READ»
Big, bold bling
Chunky accessories, many in Lucite, feature hugely in fashion houses' spring 2010 lines. Often trendy since its 1931 invention, Lucite owes this revival to the economy. Even the snootiest brands are offering ...READ»
TransFair U.S.A., which certifies fair-trade goods in the U.S., is venturing beyond edibles for the first time with a pilot project for cotton bed linens, towels, and apparel. The cotton farmers as well as the factory workers will be ...READ»
First Cadbury announced a plan earlier this year to buy fair-trade cocoa from Ghana. Then Mars promised to source all chocolate from sustainable suppliers by 2020, and now Nestle--the world's largest food manufacturer--has followed ...READ»
I like fair trade, and there are some reasons why I prefer to buy Fair Trade
products.
If something is as fair trade , which means that products will be available
in May for consumer jewelry such as Juicy Jewelry is part of an ...READ»
I like fair trade, and there are some reasons why I prefer to buy Fair Trade
products.
If something is as fair trade , which means that products will be available
in May for consumer jewelry such as Juicy Jewelry is part of an ...READ»
Completely organic and fair-trade coffee at supermarket prices...locally-directed sustainability projects in coffee-producing villages...and the integrity to turn down the wrong kind of customer, even if it means giving up millions of dollars--Dean Cycon runs a very different kind of coffee company.READ»
Complain all you want about Starbucks taking over the world--the company is at least trying to do some good in the process. The company announced plans last year to become the largest purchaser of Fair Trade coffee in the world. ...READ»
Global economic crisis. Financial collapse. The current climate. Whatever term you want to use to describe our present state of affairs, I've heard it in the halls and meeting rooms at the Skoll World Forum on Social ...READ»
By next Easter, your Creme Eggs may be a little less of a guilty pleasure. Cadbury just completed a deal to source fair-trade cocoa from Ghana by the end of summer 2009. The cocoa will come from a cooperative with the delightful ...READ»
A new partnership between eBay and an unusual social enterprise aims to give the world's artisans access to a bigger market -- and a fair share of the revenue.READ»
The reason I took several weeks off from my weekly Fast Company blog was that I was traveling in Guatemala
If you'll allow me the hubris of sharing an outsider's perspective after spending just a few weeks there, I'd like to make ...READ»
Since Coca Cola acquired a minority interest in Honest Tea back in February of this year, the organic beverage company has utilized the benefits of the partnership to come a long way, and according to CEO Seth Goldman, managed to ...READ»
Commenting on Elizabeth Spiers post "Benefits of Buying Local?" A great blog post about "Exploding the myths, presumptions, and pretensions of the bullies."
Different models like buying local, Organic, ...READ»
Why have one bottom line when you can have three successful bottom lines? Understanding the business models that achieve a triple bottom line for elevating people and profit while deminishing their impact on the plant is helping many ornagizations do good while doing well.READ»
Out of six official fair-trade towns in the whole United States, two are one town away from me--Amherst, Massachusetts and Northampton, Massachusetts (I live in the town between them, Hadley--which, small as it is, has at least five ...READ»
