FEATURE: Activism 2.0?

http://cityhippy.blogspot.com [City Hippy: The diary of our struggle to live a green and fair life.] Starbucks promise (PDF) is to make Fair Trade coffee for you, any day of the week in more than 20 countries - we wanted to find out just how easy that was. The goal For me the goal has always been to engage with Starbucks, to test that promise and to assist Starbucks in delivering on that promise.

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Greenlagirl.blogspot.comhttp://greenlagirl.blogspot.com [Greenlagirl.blogspot.com] green LA girl: Starbucks Challenge update: 1st chat with Starbucks: BbB -- give us some more detailed feedback about Starbucks' fair trade friendliness in the windy city :)

http://www.lifehacker.com [Lifehacker.com] Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide: If you want 1.3 megapixels of Bluetooth-enabled goodness with 6x zoom, flash, night mode and video capabilities (in addition to a long list of neat smartphone features), send the text message LIFEHACKER to 4INFO (44636) from your existing mobile phone to enter for a chance to win. Check out the contest announcement post for the nitty gritty.

Accidentalhedonist.comhttp://www.accidentalhedonist.com [Accidentalhedonist.com] Accidental Hedonist - Starbucks and Fair Trade Coffee: It explains why a flavored cafe late can range from 3.50 to 7.00 a cup but paying 60% more for coffee is like saying you are paying "fair trade" value for diamonds because instead of paying those poor children in Africa who mine diamonds for slave wages 1 cent an hour, you're now paying them 6 cents. In other words, it's all relative and the reason they pay 60% more is because they have such strict growing, picking and manufacturing demands (not that that is a bad thing, it's just different then buying generic grown, fair trade coffee).

Blogging.lahttp://blogging.la [Blogging.la] blogging.la: Sean -- Thanks for joining the challenge :) This month is indeed fair trade month -- not just at Starbucks, but everywhere, theoretically. In any case, Starbucks put out a press release yesterday saying that they'll have fair trade coffee brewing all week in N.American stores -- so at least for this week, you won't have to wait for a French-pressed cup.

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Posted at October 28, 2005 01:28 PM

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