We’re off on our holidays in a cottage overlooking Loch Broom, in the Scottish Highlands. Alas, my mobile internet connection fails to connect here - some issue with the Three mobile network when using legacy (GPRS) networks. I remember seeing comments about it, but as I have no internet access, I can’t Google for the […]
Today is the start of Fairtrade fortnight, the annual celebration of the campaign to secure better prices, decent working conditions, local sustainability, and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers in the developing world.
With Scotland aiming for Fairtrade nation status, and Britain’s biggest sugar producer switching all its retail sales to Fairtrade, Fairtrade no […]
Fairtrade is alive and well in Scotland, with a compelling vision that economics can be made to serve people, and shopping can build a better world.
Is it considered polite these days to tell wedding guests that you’ve already got everything you need, but American Express will do nicely?
A philanthropic gesture by Bill Gates is nothing of the sort
Thoughts on a Fair Trade birthday card
The Fair Trade products we saw being made in Bangladesh in March appear in Traidcraft’s Autumn 2005 catalogue
