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[City Hippy: The diary of our struggle to live a green and fair life.] NEWS: Starbucks Challenge Awards: And even if you're not "challenging" any more because your store's passed the test, we hope you'll ask for fair trade coffee every time you go to Starbucks. After all, Starbucks says that if consumers demand it, they'll make fair trade coffee more easily avaliable -- though as of now, we question how Starbucks is measuring this demand....
Transmogrified: . 69 bloggers have joined and posted their experiences about 89 challenges. (del.icio.us feed here) October 25, 05: Starbucks sends email communication to all its US stores reminding them about the "coffee press on request" policy. ( Siel's post ). I am really impressed with the local Starbucks. I went there on the 24th and asked for fair trade again. This time there was no problem, the barista promptly told me to wait for a few minutes and I was able to get my cup of fair trade coffee without (via Cosmos)
[Makower.typepad.com] Joel Makower: Two Steps Forward: According to its own stated policy, Starbucks will make a cup of Fair Trade coffee for you, any day of the week, in 21 countries: Australia, Austria, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, the U.K., and the U.S. If it isn't brewing Fair Trade as one of its "coffees of the day," a Starbucks barista is supposed to, upon request, make a pot using one of those French press plunger devices.
[Pbu.blogspot.com] Progressive Blogger Union: Immediately after the 2004 U.S. Presidential voting fiasco, mainstream media noticed how bloggers kept shouting about the need for voting accountability. That large resounding shout faded somewhat with time as we scattered to individually blog on many other current issues.
[Ndnblog.org] NDN Blog: Rosenberg -- instead of just making high-virtue sounding statements about a "21st Century Compact for 21st century American worker" -- get real with some specifics -- Drill down so we could get a real fair trade agreement that might actually open up some protected markets and allow us some real trade opporunities. Yes we need additional protections for American Workers and real 'free trade' which is not one way in benefits to Central America -- but this is not the way to get real reforms by making statements for just political reasons.
[Medworth.org.uk] Medworth.org.uk » Blog Archive » Oliver Kamm on "fair trade": How could it be that after 150 years of wonderful colonialism and “lessons” (well enough time to develop), these African and Asian ex-colonies were still mired in poverty? Obviously, the British colonials never intended to provide or provided those dubious “lessons” you claimed.
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