When I buy chocolate, I’m supporting a whole system of politics and people behind that chocolate. I want part of the pleasure I derive from eating chocolate to be the knowledge that I’m not adding to someone else’s abuse. Buying Fair Trade and Rainforest Alliance Certified chocolates is an easy way to ensure that your purchasing power supports chocolate growers with sound human rights policies. From now on it will be Green & Black’s Milk Chocolate for me.
Entries Tagged as 'advocacy groups'
All’s Fair (Trade) in Love and Chocolate!
February 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tags: advocacy groups · food and tradition
How to Save One Million Fish Every Hour
January 6th, 2010 · No Comments
As 2009 drew to a close, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) quietly issued a decision that will dramatically decrease the destruction of fish within Long Island’s south shore estuary. Tucked into the large expanse of salt marshes there, the E.F. Barrett Power Station can silently kill more than one billion fish and other marine life specimens every year.
Tags: advocacy groups · food news
Expressing Your Inner Green Santa
December 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Consider expressing your inner green Santa by sending bounty to one or more of these worthy causes.
Tags: advocacy groups · guest dish
Blog Action Day: Looking For Green in All the Wrong Places
October 15th, 2009 · 6 Comments
Global warming almost cost me a relationship. It did. Here’s the story.
Tags: advocacy groups
No Impact Man Hits Theaters This Week!
September 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Want to get a look inside their year of No Impact? Find a screening of the No Impact movie near you(or host one!)! New Yorkers – join Kerry Trueman and me at the Angelika theater on September 15th at 7:00, where we’ll field your questions about sustainable food and how it fits into a low-impact lifestyle.
Tags: advocacy groups · events
Global Grocer: Imports, Rarity, and the Case for Origin Labeling
May 7th, 2009 · No Comments
Like all domestic goddesses born in the midst of the Green Revolution, my mom has a complex grocery shopping technique that has never been adequately summed up by her explanation, “whatever looks best.” It incorporates all five senses (much to the embarrassment of my twelve-year-old self, when she routinely sniffed the stem-ends of a [...]
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