Surprise! I have a confession to make… on Thursday, I found myself in… Starbucks!  I’ll explain why later…
Success!  On Wednesday, I bought the Fairtrade individual coffee filters and Earl Grey tea bags from Marks and Spencers.  I can now call my workplace semi-Fairtrade. 
The individual coffee filters are very nice (strength 3), but I can tell [...]

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Having taken up the Get Certified Challenge, I checked out whether Fairtrade tea and coffee are available where I work.  Unbelievably, despite our having 3 coffee outlets, none of them stock Fairtrade.  In fact, when I asked, I was met with blank stares.
I decided that I would raid the tea and coffee available in the [...]

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Tate & Lyle are going to make all their retail sugar products Fairtrade certified by the end of 2009! 
Raynaldo Aban from San Joaquin village in Corazal, Belize, is one of the 6,000 community farmers who will benefit from the £2 million of Fairtrade premiums for investment by farming communities in the first year alone.  He says, [...]

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Why am I doing this? Fair Trade t-shirts!
Why is finding Fair Trade t-shirts so hard? I’d noticed some plain ones in a fashion catalogue and really wanted one with [...]

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