admin @ December 30, 2007 # No Comment Yet
view from a coffee plantation in Guatemala, by dustjelly on Flickr
Yesterday, I’ve come across leaflet titled Starbucks In Our Communities, in which Starbucks informs the conscious consumer about the company’s approaches to social and environmental responsibility. While some sound valid and reasonable – for example, paying employees for volunteering in their communities and donating […]
admin @ December 18, 2007 # No Comment Yet
David Oliver Relin gave a wonderful presentation to a crowd of neighbors and fans of his new, New York Times best-selling novel, Three Cups of Tea, at a recent community event at the Portland Ten Thousand Villages store. Special thanks to David for a great slide show and stories about Pakistan and to Claire Levine, […]
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Fair Trade: A Beginner’s Guide
A new blog was set-up by the author, Jaqueline DeCarlo, to accompany her insightful and much-needed book.
Three Cups of Tea
A local, Portland author shares this non-fiction story about helping build schools (and so much more) in Pakistan.
Javatrekker: Dispatches from the world of fair trade coffee
Dean’s Beans owner and certified […]
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Millions of people in the developing world speak native languages that are very different from English. Because of the monolingual emphasis with which English is taught, it tends to not only downgrade the mother tongues of learners, but of tragically undervaluing the rich multilingualism which is typical of most of the developing world.
Linguicism, in regards […]
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The definition of “Capacity building” in regards to the International principles for Fair Trade states:
“Fair trade is a means to develop producers’ independence. Fair trade relationships provide continuity, during which producers and their marketing organizations can improve their management skills and their access to new markets.”
Now that Fair trade coffee is a good investment, corporate […]