Results tagged “fairtrade”

It’s been hard for us to admit this, greenie that we are, but a vote for Prop. 1 is in order, at least from this Seattlest's perspective.

Barter, trade; the original commerce. You give us this and we give you that which inside we hope is of lesser value somehow, because that's the way we've been trained since we were kids. Our steelie for your catseye, Grandpa. Or how about our Short Fuse for your Storm Shadow? Our royal sampler of never-will-bes and never-weres for your Canseco rookie? No tradebacks, bitch, even though as soon as the deal is done one of us is going to start bragging. You know you don't want Neighborhood Justice to enforce this contract.

Amazon launched its grocery service recently and it's got us all nostalgic for a bygone age. Back in the day our ass never had to lift out of the Aeron to get produce, DVDs, books, clothes, art, exotic pets, and a human toe delivered right to our office by a scooter messenger. A six pack of Oly and a head of lettuce please. Because we fucking can! Then we were all fired and a few rich guys got slightly less rich.

SIFF enters its second full week with a slew of great documentaries, including the final screening of fair trade coffee doc Black Gold (Tuesday, 9:30pm @ the Egyptian). The directors, Marc and Nick Francis, will be in attendance, as will Tadesse Meskela, an Ethiopian Farm Cooperative Organizer featured in the film. The SIFF screenings mark the first time the directors and subject have been together since the making of the film---and the first time Meskela has seen the film on the big screen.

USA Today reveals that America's next would-be culture czar is already enthroned as (gulp) the nation's barrista baron.

Reason has a good article in their March issue about the state of Fair Trade coffee that's online and definitely worth a scan from the cube on a Monday. It talks about how Fair Trade has gone from an outsider's movement to an entrenched bureaucracy in the business of coffee in just a few years and there's obviously a lot of Starbucks stuff in there for those following our local boys.

UK inviurnnmentalists City Hippy are calling out Starbucks on their promise to have Fair Trade coffee available at any store at any time by, gasp, actually trying to order the stuff from Starbucks baristas. City Hippy invites their readers to ask for a cup of Fair Trade coffee from their local Starbucks and post the results online. Bloggers write about it in your blog and tag the link "starbuckschallenge" at del.icio.us, non-bloggers can email either cityhippy@gmail.com or greenlagirl@gmail.com.