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  Ben and Jerry's Commit to 100% Fair Trade Sourcing

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  Social Enterprise: By the end of 2013, Ben and Jerrys will source 100% fair trade ingredients. /> This is the big, hairy and audacious goal that Ben and Jerrys made in

  

  Julie Fahnestock • April 09 • 0

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  Green Mountain Fair Trade Coffee Trader Releases Sustainability Report

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  Corporate Social Responsibility: Coffee tastes better when its Fair Trade, not only because small-scale farmers in remote locations can access credit without resorting to middlemen,

  

  Antonio Pasolini • March 19 • 0

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  Global Players Commit to Fair Trade Expansion

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  Corporate Social Responsibility: Thirty-seven leaders from the business, farming, academic, NGO and philanthropic communities recently converged to address key challenges around glob

  

  Antonio Pasolini • February 11 • 0

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  Fair Trade USA Launches Report on Pilot Apparel Program

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  Corporate Social Responsibility: A new report compiled by Fair Trade USAs Multi-Stakeholder Group provides an overview of the recently completed Fair Trade Certified apparel pilot pr

  

  Antonio Pasolini • February 07 • 0

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  Socially Responsible Food Is On the Rise in the U.S., New Report Says

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  Corporate Social Responsibility: New data released by Fair Trade USA reveals a significant growth in socially responsible food. The biggest third-party certifier of Fair Trade produc

  

  Antonio Pasolini • November 08 • 0

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  FLO, Fair Trade USA, and Starbucks: A Critique (Part 6)

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  Ethical Consumption: "When the dragons started coming in, the label changed. The farmers are also frustrated with the different types of standards. When Transfair [Fair T

  

  Julie Fahnestock • May 30 • 1

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  FLO, Fair Trade USA, and Starbucks: A Critique (Part 5)

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  Ethical Consumption: Note from the author: I hope youve enjoyed this series thus far. Many thanks to those of you who have posted very engaging comments and questions. It

  

  Julie Fahnestock • May 17 • 0

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  Question and Answer with Paul Rice, President and CEO of Fair Trade USA: Part 2

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  Ethical Consumption: "Dont we want to democratize fair trade? Dont we want fair trade to be more than a white, middle-class movement? Dont we want consumers, no matter w

  

  Julie Fahnestock • May 10 • 1

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  Question and Answer with Paul Rice, President and CEO of Fair Trade USA: Part I: Cooperatives and Estates

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  Corporate Social Responsibility: "If fair trade continues to stand on the model of excluding the poorest of poor, excluding the majority of people in product categories in industry-

  

  Julie Fahnestock • May 03 • 2

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  FLO, Fair Trade USA, and Starbucks: A Critique (Part 4)

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  Corporate Social Responsibility: (Please note: This posting critiques the fair trade industry at the close of 2011. As of January 2012, Fair Trade USA revised their standards and the

  

  Julie Fahnestock • April 25 • 2

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  We Have a Love of Money, Why Not a Money of Love?

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  Sustainable Finance: Love may be a hot commodity, but we don't recognize its true economic value. We are the poorer for it The average person celebrating Valentine's Day

  

  Reynard Loki • February 14 • 0

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  Endangered Species Chocolate: Impressive Business Model

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  Sustainable Food: Cacao is an enormous industry. Because cacao is a tropical crop, non-tropical countries have an added responsibility to ensure that the trafficking o

  

  Keri Marion • February 21 • 3

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  Equal Exchange: Fair Trade Is A Movement, Not A Brand

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  Sustainable Food: (Rodney North, The Answer Man, employee-owner, & former Board Vice-Chair at Equal Exchange will be speaking at the Certification, Consumption, and Ch

  

  Keri Marion • February 19 • 3

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  How Cashmere has Become a CSR Issue

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  Corporate Social Responsibility: Not too long ago, cashmere was a luxury item. We saved up for it and kept it for years. /> In recent times, however, cashmere has become another vic

  

  Sarah Brown • January 17 • 0

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  How campaigning can drive CSR practice

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  Corporate Social Responsibility: Campaign group Greenpeace has scored a major victory for better CSR practice and protection of marine life. Its tuna league table which named and sh

  

  Sarah Brown • January 15 • 0

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  GMOs & The FDA

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  Sustainable Food: While browsing the Food and Drug Administration's website, I noticed a whole section on genetically engineered animals. It's a good discussion to hav

  

  Keri Marion • September 19 • 0

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  Emma Watson Goes from Hogwarts to Bangladesh to Learn the Magic behind Ethical Fashion

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  Ethical Consumption: Emma Watson, who has gained popularity with her role as Hermione in the Harry Potter series, recently visited Bachhara, an ethical clothing label, in

  

  Courtni Vecchiarelli • August 09 • 3

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  Can you quantify the value of CSR initiatives?

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  Corporate Social Responsibility: Constant debate surrounds the real marketing and monetary benefits of CSR initiatives. Over nachos in Noe Valley (San Francisco) last night I mused w

  

  Lindsey Moore • July 16 • 3

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  Gap Inc. unveils China expansion plans - what does this mean for its CSR policy?

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  Ethical Consumption: Last week, Gap unveiled plans to enter China with four Gap brand stores in full swing by the end of the year. The San Francisco-based company, parent

  

  Lindsey Moore • June 30 • 0

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  Healthy Food Healthy Chickens

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  Sustainable Food: Healthy food can appear to be expensive in the individual case. As I've noted in Sustainable Food is Affordable, a food budget should be looked over

  

  Keri Marion • June 29 • 0

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