Tag: Fair Trade - Page 14
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The Virtue of Humility: Why Coke's Ethical Store Failed
The news that Coke's prototype store for its "Far Coast" ethical coffee chain concept is set to close comes as no surprise to those of us in the circle of good-for-the-world branding and marketing. But that doesn't mean we rooted for it to
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Far Coast is Toast
A year ago we posted about Coca-Cola opening a prototype store in Toronto for a new coffee chain concept, complete with bamboo floors, a fair trade coffee, cups with recycled content, biodegradable utensils and bamboo stir
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Air Freighted Organic Food In UK To Be Fair Trade
It was a difficult, even Solomonic judgement call: As George noted earlier, the Soil Association, the UK’s leading organic certification body, had proposed withdrawing the 'organic' label from produce flown into the UK from abroad. Others argued that
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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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College Sustainability Report Card 2008
Colleges and universities are taking the task of going green seriously, according to the newly released College Sustainability Report Card 2008. The report, compiled by the Sustainable Endowments Institute, showed that more than two out of three
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Angeles Anonimos: Creating Fair-Trade Jewelry with Peru's Disabled
Sponsored by Fair Indigo and produced by StoryBridge, this video profiles Angeles Anonimos (Anonymous Angels), a Lima, Peru-based group that trains the disabled and handicapped—regarded by locals as unemployable and often left to beg on the streets—to
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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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Green Halloween: Sugar Rush
1) Equal Exchange's
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Swedish Fair Fashion, Hold the Macaroni
In addition to its social conscience, Sweden is also extremely fashion conscious, and recent media debate plus campaigns by local group Rena Kläder (Clean Clothing) have brought ideas about ethical fashion to the forefront. Right on cue, in Sweden's
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Lagusta's Luscious Handmade, Vegan Chocolate Truffles
Lagusta's Luscious' truffles remain true to their name to the last flick of your tongue. Pop one of these delectables into your mouth and the delicate crunch of chocolate between your teeth soon gives way to the silky, creamy lusciousness of
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Citizen Bean: Organic, Fair-Trade Coffee-of-the-Month Club
Keep yourself or the coffee snob/caffeine enthusiast in your life rolling in gourmet java beans with Citizen Bean, an online subscription coffee-roaster-of the-month club that offers the "best sustainable and complex roasts" from small-batch specialty
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Bikaleh: Inspirations from Yoga
After a 2 or 3 year stint in the army, most young Israelis head to one of two places to let loose: India or Latin America. In Bikaleh, an organic clothing shop on Rehov Shlush in Tel Aviv, it is impossible not to see the Indian influence in the
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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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Local Farms Want Fair Trade Certification, Too
A group of farmers is calling out for what it has dubbed "agricultural justice." And to bring the international fair-trade movement—the same one that lobbies for worker equity and sustainability across the globe—home to the
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Fair Trade Coffee In Bloom
Fair Trade coffee is everywhere now; according to the New York Times, Sam's Club, Dunkin' Donuts, McDonalds and yes, Starbucks. . Not everyone approves; some say that fair trade coffee is as exploitive as the
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Quote of the Day: Laure Waridel on the Coffee Crisis
Photo credit: csaba_bajko The current world prices for coffee—set in New York and London—have fallen to their lowest ever level in real terms. As I write these lines, middlemen are paying peasants in Mexico around 44 cents for a kilogram of coffee that
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Brewing Up Change at Your Coffee Chain
This summer, while walking down Highway 35 into Minden, Ontario, I paced out the distance between pieces of garbage in the ditch beside the road; it averaged about 12 feet. Fully half of the garbage was from Tim Horton's, Canada's hugely dominant coffee
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Tully's Switches Over to Compostable Coffee Cups
With its use of International Paper's Ecotainer Hot Cup, which is lined with a bioplastic made from corn, rather than a
