The Agroinnovations Podcast is turning to the issue of Fair Trade, focusing on fairly traded coffee to address some of the issues that the Fair Trade movement now faces. It has been almost 20 years since Fair Trade pioneers and social justice advocates started with an idea. And surely, [...]

The map can be viewed by clicking here. I originally posted this map in my last Challenge article, but the link was buried in the body of the article. This map is for those of you who are following the challenge and want to get a quick view of the countries [...]

Last month, greenLAgirl and CityHippy kicked off the Starbucks Challenge.  The purpose of the Challenge was to mobilize bloggers and blog-readers around the world to call Starbucks to task on their stated policy of making available Fair Trade coffee in all of their stores, no questions asked.   Those of you who have been following the [...]

Yesterday my sister and I went to one of our local Starbucks to join in on the Starbucks Challenge.   I've been following the Challenge for several weeks now, and it's really caught my attention for a number of reasons.  However, I figured I should actually take the Challenge before blogging about it.    The baristas at [...]