Writing today from the Baltimore Bioneers conference, where the WHO Farm bus (which I just wrote about yesterday) pulled up this morning — small world! If you’re in Baltimore this weekend, you should swing by (though the bus pulls out tonight). For the rest of you, see if your city is hosting a satellite conference — now here comes the news.
A fairer frappuccino Starbucks has announced their intentions to double their purchases of fair trade coffee next year, and shoot to reach 100% fair trade by the year 2015. Grist reports that they’ve also been tabloid-shamed into addressing their water waste.
Not even Fruit Loops? Bad news from Mark Winne and Sam Fromartz at Chews Wise, where they report that wild-swinging buying patterns indicate the recession has officially hit, especially at the food banks, where supplies are dwindling as more people go hungry.
How we can fix it Parke Wilde of US Food Policy reports on the 2008 Blueprint to End Hunger (pdf) recently released by National Anti-Hunger Organizations and Bread for the World.
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1 Parke // Nov 10, 2008 at 10:46 am
I should mention that the post on the hunger blueprint, and some other recent cool posts, are by graduate student and dietitian Ashley Colpaart, who has been contributing occasionally to U.S. Food Policy.
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