Fair Trade Further reading
Worth a read:-
Coffee growing in Australia - with an eco-emphasis
TransFair USA - Fair Trade Certified
Fancy some impromptu maracas - re-use the Easter stuff…
Fair Trade versus Environment
Good post on a tricky subject, does Fair Trade = Environmentally Friendly
The belief that fair-traded goods are primarily flown in, at least in the UK, is clearly a false one. In fact the 99.2% of Fairtrade products that entered the UK by ship were responsible for just .03% of UK food mile emissions and 0.001% of total UK carbon emissions in 2005.
Worth checking out and, even, a little further reading on the subject - just because it says Fair Trade isn’t quite the end of the story
Fairtrade and the Supermarkets
A recent poll indicates that over 50 % of UK shoppers recognize the Fairtrade logo - even the big brands are waking up to the selling power of the black, green and blue symbol.
This week, Tate & Lyle became the biggest company yet to carry it, claiming plans to make all of its retail range Fairtrade by the end of 2009.
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Businesswomen show Veuve for award
Businesswomen show Veuve for award
Daily Telegraph - Sophi Tranchell is the managing director of Divine Chocolate, which produces fair trade chocolate from Ghana. The company turns over £10m a year and its profits have been shared …
IGA To Tackle In-Game Advertising in Free Online Quake
Cuban Trade Embargo Expected to Remain
Guardian Unlimited - WASHINGTON (AP) - America's five-decade trade embargo on Cuba is expected to be far more durable … in the embargo until there were significant changes in Cuba's government, including free and fair …
Ethical Goods
Reusable bags again
Scientific Greens find formula for place at the table
Scotsman - THE coffee is Fairtrade, the flapjacks are organic, the computers are switched off religiously every night and helicopters are an absolute no-no. Working out of a former lawyer’s office just 300 yards from the Scottish Parliament, the Scottish Greens …
Green crusader: The woman who became a bag lady
Independent Online Edition - From today, reusable bags will be on sale everywhere in Modbury at their cost price of £1.50 for a small Fairtrade cotton bag and £3.95 for a larger one. Biodegradable carriers will cost 5p each, while those bags that do enter the town will be …
Food for Thought: Satisfying Picky Eaters Is No Picnic
New York Times - About 350 campuses now use coffee, sugar and cocoa that is fair-trade certified — a stamp of approval indicating that workers and growers are not exploited (as determined by the nonprofit Fairtrade Labeling Organizations International). Local …
Why ethics matter
katyarborough.blogspot.com has a good piece (missed over the religious season) on why it matters, even at risk of getting a little tedious on the subject and writes:
People who know me well will know that I can get very excited and passionate about social issues such as Fairtrade, Stop the Traffik, the environment, ethical clothing. Maybe it bores you to hear me talk about it over and over…
Fairtrade weddings
enn have a piece on this week’s hot topic, green/fairtrade weddings and write “White weddings might have been the dream of fashionable brides of old. But the trendiest British weddings are now at least metaphorically green as couples seek to reduce the impact of their nuptials on the environment.
“A year ago there was nothing green at wedding shows. I was really struggling to get the message across that green weddings are about ‘eco-chic’, not lentils and hessian”…
I do recall the time when marriage was seen as irredeemably bourgeois, but perhaps that was another entirely “British” thing.
Easter Eggs and Packaging
Jamaica promotes ‘Fairtrade’ concept in the banana industry
Caribbean Net News - KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS): The Ministry of Agriculture and Lands is promoting the ‘Fairtrade’ concept among banana farmers to boost income and ensure the sustainability of the industry. Fairtrade is an organized social movement, which aims to improve …
Chocolate Firm Sets Bad Eggs-Ample
Ananova - Tesco’s Milk Chocolate Egg with Praline Truffles and Oxfam’s Devine Fairtrade Easter Egg both had 34% of packaging to 66% chocolate. A council spokesman said: “Nestle deserves criticism for producing two very bad eggs. “As well as being responsible for …
Supermarkets wage Easter egg price war
Guardian Unlimited - More upmarket, premium-priced eggs will be sold this year than ever before as shoppers increasingly concerned about the provenance and quality of their food trade up to organic and Fairtrade eggs. Asda, for instance, expects to sell 10% more luxury …
