The Fair Trade movement’s main principle is to create markets that value the people who make the food we eat and the goods we use. It combines social justice with an alternative business model and a system of global commerce, and is also a tool for international development. That will be celebrated and share on May 8, which is International Fair Trade Day.
Whale researcher Alexandra Morton has organized a walk down the British Columbia coast in support of wild salmon and in an attempt to get the government to outlaw penned salmon farms from B.C. waters.
Celebrating Earth Day is not appropriate. And it’s too late for symbolism. Instead, we need to push governments and corporations to make serious and drastic change in order that Earth continues to be habitable by humans.
Mainstream publications are noticing straw bale construction but Natural Life Magazine has been publishing articles about such homes for almost 20 years. Here are some links to articles from our archives and resources elsewhere on the Internet.
Symbols like Earth Hour and Earth Day are great. But it will take more than people turning off their lights for an hour a year or school kids planting trees one day a year to create that change. What are you doing about climate change today?
The time is coming when all workplaces will be scent-free zones, because an increasing number of people are sensitive to perfumes and fragrances in personal care products.
Television networks are inserting instances of green behavior into program storylines in order to attract advertisers.
Yardsharing is a way for people with garden space but no time to garden to share it with gardeners who have no space. Both share in the produce, while building community and contributing to the security of their local food supply.
Researchers at Princeton University have found that rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same. In addition to causing significant weight gain in lab animals, long-term consumption of high-fructose corn syrup also led to abnormal increases in body fat, especially in the abdomen, and a rise in circulating blood fats called triglycerides.