I’m on vacation this week! So it might be quiet on the blog, but I wanted to leave you all with this question: do you think the goals of the Buy Local movement and the Fair Trade movement are more compatible than they are contradictory? Underneath the slogans and the sound bytes, it [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Buy Local’
Local and Fair: Are the Underlying Values Complimentary?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Buy Local, Fair Trade on June 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Local and Fair Trade at the Crossroads: are we building a movement or splintering one?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged agribusiness, Buy Local, carbon emissions, Fair Trade, local first on June 17, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Despite my first blog entry, Why “local” and “Equal Exchange Fair Trade” are two sides of the same coin, I must admit that I’m becoming a little confused by some of the Buy Local messaging I’ve been observing lately. I wholeheartedly support the goals of the movement as I understand them to be: reducing our carbon [...]
World Fair Trade Day
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Buy Local, CESMACH, environment, Fair Trade, small farmer co-operatives, World Fair Trade Day on May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Karisa Centanni, education coordinator at the Honest Weight Food Co-op, a member owned and operated natural foods grocery store on Central Avenue in Albany travelled with Equal Exchange to visit CESMACH, one of our co-operative partners in Chiapas, Mexico. For World Fair Trade Day on May 10th, Karisa wrote about her impressions of CESMACH, and offered [...]
Why “local” and “Equal Exchange Fair Trade” are two sides of the same coin
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Buy Local, Fair Trade, Organic on February 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Suddenly everyone’s talking about local: “Local is the new organic,” we’re told. Farmers’ markets are springing up in food co-operative and church parking lots and on Main Streets throughout the country. More people are joining CSAs (community supported agriculture) and choosing locally grown products in their grocery stores. And as this trend continues, more and [...]
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