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Seattle Could Learn a Thing or Two from India

I was shocked to learn about the intricate systems of rainwater harvesting in India.  Not only that, but how long they have been place, some of the for hundreds of years.  Anupam Mishra mentions in his TED talk titled The Ancient Ingenuity of Water Harvesting that the reasons these systems have been in place for so long, in a place… Read more »

Fair Trade Cacao, from the Congo to Seattle

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Colombian cacao

In The Real Cost of Cheap Food, Michael Carolan argues that “free trade is rarely fair” for smallholder farmers competing in the globalized food marketplace. The Fair Trade movement has risen in the last decade as a means of leveling the playing field for the developing world in trade relations. Seattle’s Theo Chocolate is a Fair Trade, bean-to-bar chocolate maker… Read more »