The next post in the series of some of the transitions we've made.
Anyone that knows me, knows I'm a big coffee drinker.
Coffee is actually one of my exception items on my 100-Mile Diet (Details in future post)
A lot of coffee is produced in countries that are politically unstable. What this means in very brief terms, is that the coffee is controlled by large coffee cartels. The cartels market the coffee and make the profit passing very little along to the farmers.
The farmers are then forced to enlist their families, since they have no money to pay workers, and are denied proper meals, education and medical treatment.
Fair Trade Coffee is usually grown in farmer owned cartels or co-ops where the farmers make more of the profits allowing them to live better lives. Most Fair Trade Coffee growers also grow the coffee organically and are excellent stewards of the earth.
I'm not trying to promote this company, I'm just using it as an example. Their site has a lot of info about Fair Trade.
Just Us! also has tea, chocolate and sugar, all from the Fair Trade variety.
For me, it's only Fair Trade Organic coffee at home and I look for it in coffee shops too.
There’s also days I don’t take a lunch. Most of the available lunch spots are food court restaurants or street vendors and the majority of those buy from a central wholesaler. The street vendor does have local potatoes fairly often but not the oil.
Designs decorating the huge windows of corporate buildings may soon be able to provide more than just advertising. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute of Solar Energy Systems (ISE) have developed a new solar module that uses organic dyes in combination with nanoparticles to produce electricity.
all of us in the green publishing space, both online and off, promote such actions as ways for all of us to live greener lives, and, more specifically, to cut our carbon footprints. But, the "simple actions" approach to sustainability also runs the risk of becoming simplistic, and even moralistic. Read here, http://sustainablog.org/2008/02/18/morality-and-markets-the-depth-of-our-carbon-footprints/
being marketers of some of the most popular food items found on grocery shelves? They all own organic brands. Read more, http://ecochildsplay.com/2008/02/10/who-owns-your-favorite-organic-brand/
See more here, http://thoughtsonglobalwarming.blogspot.com/2008/02/greenest-restaurant-in-america.html
America. Here, twenty-nine families live in a neighborhood of single-, double-, and quadruple-family homes that are clustered on a small portion of 113 acres of pasture, ponds and open land. Read the article here, http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=51181
free. It also boasts arsenic-free glass and lead-free circuit boards, among other features. Here's more, http://www.apple.com/environment/
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