Easy Ways to Save the World

February 26th, 2008

Fairtrade Fortnight

It's Fairtrade Fortnight again. Doesn't seem like a year although I know it is as it is my daughters first birthday this week! Anyway as I have a small child I have stopped drinking fresh coffee and reverted to instant as it takes less time to make and with a small child time is precious. But you can't get Fairtrade instant ...

December 12th, 2006

Bananas

Listened to George Monbiot on the radio today talking about Fairtrade bananas at Sainburys. He was quite cool. The cheif exceutive of Sainsburys was on talking about switching all their bananas over to Fairtrade. I think he hit the nail on the head when he asked what Sainsburys margins were on the bananas. It does make you think about why Fairtrade was introduced - I think the reason ...

March 7th, 2006

Fairtrade Fortnight

Fairtrade Fortnight – if you didn’t know already it’s Fairtrade Fortnight from the 6th-19th of March. Fairtrade seems to be getting trendy – we managed to get some Fairtrade jam from Sainsburys last night – I think the sugar used was Fairtrade from what I could work out on the packaging. You get extra nectar points for buying Fairtrade at Sainsburys as well! (not that I really condone the ...

September 26th, 2005

Equitrade

Equitrade – you’ve seen fairtrade now meet equitrade. This article in The Guardian explains the details. The general idea is to keep as much of the profit from the products in the country that makes them – which sounds fair enough to me. Obviously this make the chocolate a bit more expensive – but who said it would be cheap to save the world!

September 6th, 2005

..:: Global Exchange :: Fair Trade and Socially Conscious Gifts Online ::..

..:: Global Exchange :: Fair Trade and Socially Conscious Gifts Online ::.. - Fair Trade everything shipped globally and has quite a larger variety of chocolate which is always important when looking at these things!

July 11th, 2005

8 ways you can help the third world

I was just looking at an article that my other half found the in the Sun last week. It lists 8 ways of helping the the third world. I have just noticed that 3 ways to help are buying fairtrade goods – which I think is a bit of a cop out. In case you are interested the 8 ways are: Drink fairtrade coffee Adopt a child – look at actionaid.org.uk Be ...

July 11th, 2005

www.maketradefair.com

www.maketradefair.com - It's amazing what you can find through google - this seems to be a site along the lines of makepovertyhistory.org. It has various thing you can do like emailing Tescos about squeezing their suppliers. Found this site here too: Traidcraft - it sell more than just chocolate!

July 11th, 2005

A lot of Chocolate

A lot of Chocolate - more fair trade chocolate available on line!

July 6th, 2005

Fair Deal Footballs

Fair Deal Footballs - Jut looking at the Fairtrade website and found this site - they do fairtrade footies and 'sneakers'.

July 6th, 2005

Fairtrade pledge

I recently made a pledge to buy only Fairtrade chocolate, coffee and tea for the whole of July. I thought it might be difficult as I am partial to the occasional Twix but it hasn't been too difficult. We went shopping to Asda and had a bit a problem with the tea but low and behold we found Clipper Earl Grey which is fairtrade and organic. Clipper also ...