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»
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Mazda MAZDA6 Function
Most of the 2009 Mazda Mazda6's controls are logically arrayed and
easy to use, though the buttons on the right side of the center stack —
such as the tuning knob and the ...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»
Summer can only mean a few things in Miami- besides more fun, temperature and gas prices are sure to skyrocket. According to data from miamigasprices.com, which lists the highest and lowest gas prices in South Florida, gas prices ...READ»
What's worth reading:
Bush Tours New Orleans,
Pushes for Rebuilding Plan
"President Bush bowed his head in prayer Tuesday to remember the hundreds who perished in Hurricane Katrina, a disaster that forever changed the Gulf Coast -- ...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»
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»
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»
Mike Dolan is leading a long-shot crusade against the new economy's most widely shared belief: that global economic integration -- of countries, companies, currencies, and markets -- is both virtuous and inevitable.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»
Equal Exchange's fair-trade coffee isn't just virtuous. Because of the company's innovative and collaborative ways of dealing with growers, it gets better beans. That makes for a darn good cup o' joe -- and caffeinated growth for Equal Exchange. Do companies that thrive by twisting their suppliers' arms have something to learn?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»
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»
Spring has ‘sprung’ and is nearly as good as through with its ‘springing’, and Summer is upon us once again. Summer can only mean a few things in Miami- besides more fun, temperature and gas prices are sure to skyrocket. ...READ»
Senators John McCain and Hilary Clinton are among many in Congress
clamoring for a gas tax “holiday” as fuel prices rise and the summer driving
season fast approaches. Never mind that they focus entirely on poor consumers
and ...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»
This news, about GM and Chrysler cooperating to create their own Hybrid Cars, is an interesting development. Both companies announced their SUVs would be using the Hybrid engine in 2007. Why only mention the SUVs and not other ...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»
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»
On Friday, the price of oil jumped a record $10.75 per barrel, to more than $138, immediately sending the dollar into a freefall and causing the Dow Jones to ask for a sick-day. Meanwhile, unemployment rose at a record-setting pace ...READ»
