The A-Z of Fairtrade: Part 1
The first Annual Fairtrade Fortnight was back in 1995 and was marked by Justino Peck, a cocoa farmer from Belize, touring the country. The theme for this year is “Make it Happen – Choose...
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Have it all – at what cost?
When I heard of SkiDubai, the world’s largest indoor ski centre, I felt convinced to the core that the world had indeed gone completely mad. An area of 22 500 sq m (the size...
The transforming power of chocolate.
Sophi Tranchell, Managing Director of the biggest Fairtrade chocolate company in the UK, talks to Ethical Superstore about her hopes for the financial crisis to transform businesses for the better; competing in a market...
Becoming Greener
In some circles, becoming ‘green’ might suggest developing an uncontrollable ‘green-eyed-monster’ type of jealousy, or perhaps suffering from extreme sea-sickness, but the shade of green I’m currently aiming for is the eco-conscious, eco-friendly, eco-chic...
Groundhog Day
Today is Groundhog Day, the annual holiday celebrated in the United States and Canada on which, it is said, if a groundhog emerges from its burrow and fails to see its shadow because the...
Cupboard love?
Looking around the cupboards in the house I share with three friends, it seems the current economic crisis is really hitting home. While the shelves are still just as well stocked as ever, where...
Givers and Takers
It seems to me that people are largely divided into two groups – the givers and the takers. On walking into a new job, a classroom or a party, there will always be those...
Make it Happen – Choose Fairtrade
With Fairtrade Fortnight less than four weeks away, Ethical Superstore talks to everyone’s favourite newsreader George Alagiah about getting active for Fairtrade; ethics during the credit crunch and his hopes for the future of...
Ethical SOUPerStore: The Verdict
Who ever said there is no such thing as a free lunch had obviously never thought of Soup Club! If you’ve been keeping up to date with last week’s Soup Challenge here at Ethical...
After a ‘SOUPER’ week will lunchtimes ever be the same?
I question whether or not my lunches will ever be the same after last week’s cook-a-thon. For five consecutive work days me and four of my ambitious colleagues set out to cook up a...