admin @ January 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
It took me a while to sample my way through the chocolate section in the local grocery store, but I finally found what I was craving: Endangered Species Chocolate (ESC). It’s smooth and rich, and has the perfect balance of bitter cocoa flavor and sweetness. Oh, and I wouldn’t have given it any attention it […]
Stacie @ January 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
February 8 & 9 at the University of Washington, Seattle
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admin @ January 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Since music is being treated as a commodity, artists – a.k.a. producers of cultural goods – often face problems similar to those of people who produce consumer goods – coffee, for example. So, if we can trade coffee fairly, why not music? Peter Rantasa, Managing Director of Music Austria, is pretty sure that we can, […]
admin @ January 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Our hearts and prayers go out to the Pakistani people left in the aftermath of the death of a leader who will not soon be forgotten, Benazir Bhutto. Her legacy to help Pakistan regain control over it’s own tribal communities, took her into the international spotlight. Today, her followers mourn a women with the courage […]
admin @ January 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
SETTARA BEGUM
It was obvious where Settara Begum did her work. Fifty screens with handmade paper were scattered about her yard, drying in the last of the afternoon sun. A thin woman, wearing a yellow cotton sari was bustling about moving the screens to maximize the sun’s exposure for the final two hours of daylight.
Begum is […]
admin @ January 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
photo by Jeff Kubina on Flickr
The basic definition of fair trade is: “a trading partnership, based on dialogue, transparency, and respect.” Sustainable Harvest, a coffee importer in Portland, Oregon, has developed this concept into an exceptional business model called Relationship Coffee. As founder David Griswold stresses, it has nothing to do with “cause related […]