Tag: Fair Trade - Page 11
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Guayaki's Maté - "Carbon Subtracting" Beverage in Biodegradable Packaging
Biodegradable only good if it's being degraded Biodegradable packaging is a bit like carbon offsetting - of dubious value if it is only a band aid for our guilt. We actually must be biodegrading the packaging to make the premise work. Guayaki, which
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Survey: Do You Buy Fair Trade?
One can get a lot of fair trade products these days; coffee and chocolate are common and now you can even get sugar. However it costs a lot more, and I was surprised the other day to find out that I was paying twice as much for my Kicking Horse
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Wholesome Sweeteners Celebrates $1 Million Dollars In Fair Trade Premiums Paid To Sugar Cane Farmers
Since 2005, when Wholesome Sweeteners helped develop Fair Trade Certification for sugar products, the company has raised over $1 million in certification premiums for the sugar cane farmers and beekeepers it works with in Malawi,
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5 Ways to Green Your Halloween Candy Fix
Embarrassing fact: Well before working at TreeHugger, I’d spend Halloween night secretly hoping trick or treat-ers wouldn’t come to my door so I could have more candy left over for moi. Mini-Twizzlers and Snickers ranked as my all time faves. Then I
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The Green Halloween Edition
:: Let your little goblins and monsters enjoy their Halloween sugar high--the all-natural way. Stock up on the tasty treats listed in our Buy Green: Halloween Candy guide.
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Book Review: By Hand - The Fair Trade Fashion Agenda by Safia Minney of People Tree
The journey of the UK ethical fashion label People Tree has been a remarkable one. As founder Safia Minney says in the introduction of her new book By Hand the story started in Japan in 1991 "and 14 years later I found myself sitting at the World
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Super Foods--Now in Powder Form!
Eco-health nuts listen up; you can now get your super foods like acai, hemp, and sprouted flax seed in the form of a powder. Truthfully, I never know whether it's all in my head or not, but when I indulge in a super food snack
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Reverse Trick-or-Treating For A Fair Trade Halloween
Last year we helped parents plan a green Halloween, and here's a way you can take it one step further this year. The folks at Global Exchange have started a Reverse Trick-or-Treating program as a way to
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The Body Shop Gets a Makeover
Getting back to their roots of natural and ethical products, the Body Shop today launched two new lines - the Wellbeing Range and Nature's Minerals (a mineral makeup line). Nature's Way to Beautiful - the new launch - focuses
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Maggie's Organics Workers Monkey Around
Taking creativity and sustainability to the next level, workers in Maggie's Organics new worker-owned coop are now using "less than perfect" leftovers from the solid cotton crew-top organic socks manufactured there to
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Sustainable Solutions Expo 2008
How do you green a village all at once? Well, if you live on a college campus these days with tens of thousands of other students, staff and faculty, the challenge can feel just that daunting. Never fear, the Sustainable
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Hey, Big Spender: Discretionary Income Buying Patterns
We often hear the complaint that it cost too much to ‘go green.’ This is, of course, a blatant untruth. Those that spend the least, by and large, consume a lesser amount of the world’s many precious and finite resources.
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With Divine Blends, the Art of Tea Lives up to Its Name
Actually that's their name, Art of Tea, and they create hand-crafted, organic, fair trade teas. I sampled the "Tropical Pineapple" blend tea and was surprised from the first taste with all of the flavor. You could actually
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Gorgeous Textiles and Rugs Made From Recycled Materials by Brazilian Designer Claudia Araujo
Brazilian designers and sisters Claudia and Monica Araujo use traditional weaving techniques and natural and recycled materials to build these versatile fabrics that serve as rugs or as textiles.
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What is Black Soap?
Black Soap, also known as African Black Soap (Anago Soap, Alata Simena,or Ose Dudu), has long been used to heal problem skin. Its good for thinning fine lines, evening out dark spots, eczema, razor bumps and eliminating blemishes.
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Rishi Tea Taste Test
Its no surprise that Rishi Tea was the winner of seven First Place Awards at the 2008 Tea Championships for best tea, and to top it off was the first company to win the award making organic teas. Beating out 300 other brands,
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Party Like There IS A Tomorrow: Eco-Party Packs
We totally agree that carrying your own tupperware is better than those styrofoam clam shells, and that reusing is important. But what if you are holding a party and don't have 40 sets of tableware? The Eco-Party Pack, by Eco
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Holy Cow Clothing Opens In Minnesota
Image source: Holy Cow Clothing Holy Cow Company officially launches August 23 & 24, 2008 at the Whole Foods Market Flavorfest 2008 in Chicago where attendees can stroll through and taste-test a plethora of organic and natural foods complete with live
