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First Prize!

It’s not long until Easter, and here in the EthicalSuperstore.com offices we’re getting excited. Whatever your beliefs, it’s a time to be thinking about Spring, new growth and new life. The sun might even start to come out soon (although we can’t promise anything)!

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After the success of the the Fairtrade Wine Tasting, our friends at Shared Interest decided they’d like to try out a Fairtrade towel. After all, we shouldn’t just be thinking about swapping our food and drink during Fairtrade Fortnight, Fairtrade cotton is a must.

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Top of the morning to all, and welcome to the #216th Carnival of the green. First of all, a big thanks to Marie at Project Earth Blog for their fantastic green round-up at last week’s Carnival. Secondly…let’s jump right in…

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We’re more than half of the way through Fairtrade Fortnight, and people have been swapping to Fairtrade in their thousands - just check out the Fairtrade Foundation’s Big Swap-ometer to see how it’s been going.

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Tropical Wholefoods

It’s Fairtrade Fortnight, hurrah!  It’s the season when we all have a chance to consider what we buy and where it’s come from.  As we’re munching on some yummy food or dressing ourselves in new clothes in the morning, this is the time for us to have a good think about who is involved in producing some of the things we buy.  Are the workers who pick my bananas being paid properly?  Are the weavers of my new top given a fair wage?

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We’re proud to sell products from ethical companies that take an interest in our wonderful planet and put that into practice in their business.  There’s so much to consider when creating a thoroughly eco-friendly business; the sourcing of goods, the production of the goods, factory emissions, waste during and after production, transportation of the goods…  So it makes us happy to find that the outdoor clothing company, Patagonia, has taken being ethical one step further; making a promise to consider what happens to their goods even after they’ve been sold.

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Are you joining in the Big Swap?

Read the rest of The Big Fairtrade Swap with Harriet Lamb »

Breakfast - The most important meal of the day?

We all know the theory. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But in practice? Not a chance. Not in our house anyway. How can the most important meal of the day happen first thing in the morning?

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National Nest Box Week is upon us! We’re being encouraged across the nation to put nest boxes in our gardens for Blue Tits, Great Tits, Sparrows and Robins. But what about our larger bird species, such as Owls? Can building and erecting nest boxes for these birds help; do owls use nest boxes?

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Green & Black's

Today is the last day before the beginning of Lent… Our thoughts should be turning to what we should be giving up between now and Easter, but as it’s the last day when we can enjoy our luxuries guilt free, here we bring you Green & Black’s Chocolate Tasting Guide. Sit back with your favourite bar (or a chocolate selection!), and enjoy…

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