Tag: Chocolate - Page 6
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The BioTruck. Would Willy Wonka be Jealous?
Okay, so we thought the chocolate-powered hydrogen fuel cell was sweet, so what should we think of a truck trundling through the Sahara desert fuelled by biodiesel made from chocolate waste?
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Survey: Halloween Habits
It is that time of year when the neighbourhood kids are particularly monstrous and greedy, hands, claws and buckets held out for treats or watch out. Pandering to this extortion racket are the big candy manufacturers, filling their shelves with crap.
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Divine Chocolate: The Big Winner
It's yummy, it's fair-trade and it's a big winner. Not only with the choco-holics, but also of the Enterprising Solutions Award. This prize is given to the most innovative social enterprises in the UK and this fair-trade chocolate company co-owned by
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Divine Chocolate's Hungry to Change the World Recipe Contest
Divine Chocolate is celebrating Fair Trade Month with a contest to find the tastiest fair-trade chocolate recipe in America. The catch? At least one ingredient has to be Divine Chocolate, but you smartypants probably figured that out already. You also
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Get Hopping, It's The Easter Bilby
The Easter shopping frenzy seemed to start the very day after the Christmas sales concluded. Supermarket aisles were suddenly packed to the ceiling in oddly shaped compound chocolate, all wearing garish coats of aluminium foil. Eeek. But, say you
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ChocoSol: the Ultimate Green Chocolate
Five years ago Michael Sacco and Graham Corbett showed up in Oaxaca, Mexico with an idea for a solar coffee roaster that would be "useful and profitable". They built solar concentrator based on the designs of Canadian inventor Fraser Symington and
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Sustainable Harvest International
Couldn't come up with a more succinct way of expressing this, so here it is direct from their website: "Central America has lost more than half of its rainforests in the last 50 years, contributing to mass extinctions and global warming. Rainforest
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My Heart is Melting
Jeff
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Be My Anti-Valentine
The advertisers have cranked up their engines, the planes are full of flowers from Africa and South America (what is the carbon footprint of this holiday?) , the Ivory Coast Blood Chocolate is being shipped out in anticipation of Valentines day. Think
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Foodeaze - New Regional and Seasonal Food Market to Open in UK
This coming Tuesday the people of Exeter in South West England will be treated to a new fresh food indoor market. Foodeaze, however, is not just a market, it is also a café, an educational centre and a food academy. Foodeaze is taking sustainable food
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The Bitter Truth About Chocolate
[This is a guest post by Tex Dworkin of the Global Exchange Fair Trade Online Store -Ed.] This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Hershey's kiss, and yet a celebration is hardly in order. Why? Because with each bite, we are reminded that most
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Book Review: Bitter Chocolate
We all think that fair trade, organic chocolate is better than the ordinary stuff but until you read this book, you have no idea how much blood and horror is mixed into the regular chocolate bar on the shelf. Carol Off, a Canadian journalist who has
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Visit The verē Chocolate Factory!
Lucky New Yorkers! The verē chocolate factory will open to the public beginning Wednesday, December 13th through Friday, December 15th from 10:00a.m. – 6:00p.m. Not only do you get to sneak a peak at one of the most magical processes known to humanity
