Showing posts with label fair trade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fair trade. Show all posts

Saturday, 16 February 2013

Settle Fair Trade Social Evening- 2 March 5pm-8pm

Please click here for a report of the evening - below is just an advert for it


Fairtrade 'Take a Step' logo

Social Evening: 

Sat 2 March   5pm-8pm
Party Games - Food Tasting – Short video – Cooked Supper and Cake at c. 6.30pm

St Johns’ Church Hall, Settle, BD24 9JH
 We need fair-trade wrappers (for the Mad Hatters Competition :
a game in which each group is challenged to make the best hat out of packaging from Fair Trade goods). Please save clean wrappers paper and card packaging from Fair Trade Products –bring them to the evening or leave beforehand in the box in the Entrance Porch of the Friends Meeting House.

Donations to Rainforest Fund ( £100 can protect an acre of rainforest – can we raise this much?). It is helpful if you can book 01729 822138 – but if not, just come.

Hosted by St John’s Methodist Church. (Plus people from Settle TraidCraft at the Friends Meeting House, plus people form Churches Together, plus people from Settle)


Please click here for a report of the evening - above is just an advert for it

Thursday, 23 October 2008

Coffee - Rainforest Alliance - Fair-Trade - Bird Friendly - Shade grown - Utz Kapeh

Coffee - It's not just a matter of is it fair trade or not - O,... no, no, no, no, no. There are several certification schemes, and other decisions to be made.

Rainforest Alliance Certification (McDonalds now use this, provided by Kenco)
[[Rainforest Alliance, I have been told, does not count as "Fair Trade" when becoming a Fair Trade Church, I have been told - even though they do have to have good conditions for the workers..]]

Fair Trade

Shade Grown/Bird Friendly

Utz Kapeh (has some sustainable features)

Then there are two types of coffee:
Arabica - usually grown in shade and so more wildlife friendly
Robusta- usually grown in the open so bad for wildlife. It needs more fertilizer and pesticides.

Shade-grown Coffee: Environmental conservation: Birding Fair Trade and much more

See Ethical corp for a good comparison

Trehugger for good info.

Bird Friendly Coffee

More

Is global business hijacking the Fairtrade bandwagon? Guardian article
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