A gap in the market and the digital age has seen the British organic cut flower industry flourish over the last couple of years - with chemical-free, low air-mile blooms finally seeing their day in the sun. LAURA BRIGGS reports on the homegrown market that offers a bigger variety of flowers and without the environmental costs of imported ones
… worth $100 billion a year, and according to fairtrade.org the main producers are the … The Real Flower Company helped to set up the Fairtrade rose farm in Nanyuki, Kenya, where …
George Monbiot argues that fair trade is the answer to world poverty. He proposes a radical new system that would also rein in corporate
power and protect labour rights and the environment.
… Fair Trade Politics And Economics Society FAIRTRADE_JUN03_MAIN.jpg George Monbiot argues …
In the 1960s psychologist Stanley Milgram tested a cross section of ordinary Americans to see if they’d administer potentially lethal electric shocks to a mild-mannered little man, sitting in an electric chair. The findings stunned the world.
… Americans Beha Mental Health Health Society FAIRTRADE_JUN03_MAIN_1.jpg In the 1960s …
In an independent cotton sustainability ranking released earlier this week by Pesticide Action Network (PAN) UK, Solidaridad and WWF, just eight out of 37 companies make it out of the red zone. Only home furnishing giant IKEA, which tops the list, is in the green zone.
… cotton initiatives from Organic and Fairtrade to Better Cotton Initiative and …