5 days ago by gorgeousandgreen

A Hot Chocolate Favor So it’s getting chilly at night these days. The time has changed, the days are shorter, and you’ve probably switched to flannel sheets like we have. I know, I live in California, but we still get cold here. If you’re getting married this winter, you may be considering a winter ...

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29 days ago by David Danziger

Several months ago, I wrote an entry that discussed the value of an employee, because it was relevant to a story making news at that time. The truth is, I could probably write an endless series of blog entries on the topic, because it seems that even in the United States, where the free market has g ...

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34 days ago by Tracy Hepler

During the month of October, supporters of the Fair Trade movement educate and inform the public about the issues regarding Fair Trade. This year on YDT, were doing things a little differently. We’re proud to say that we have signed the petition to make The White House a Fair Trade home. We’re askin ...

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39 days ago by apeaceofconflict

In the last post, Heather discussed a fair trade product and brought to light some of the positive aspects of the fair trade industry. I decided to write a counter to her article showing some of the more negative lights of the fair trade industry to get some discussion and debate going on the topic ...

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41 days ago by smoothieessentials

An article in the September 26 edition of the Chicago Sun Times reports that, on the average, women earn about 80 cents to every dollar earned by men. Author Claudia Buck further details that it’s the women themselves being the problem because they tend to undervalue themselves ~ with many women und ...

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60 days ago by Howard

“I can see clearly now . . .” Sometimes “in the thick of things” we see only trees but not the forest. We are buffeted by colliding rhetoric and position-taking and the verbal chaos it spawns. Polarization, the collapse of public discourse and the politics of animosity obscures more than clarifies, ...

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61 days ago by Chuggin McCoffee

If you are not familiar with the term Fair Trade coffee, then it is a wonderful business practice that guarantees coffee farmers fair wages so that they can focus on the quality of their coffee crops. Starbucks is now introducing Fair Trade cappuccinos and lattes to Ireland and the UK within all of ...

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62 days ago by tobiindyke

Fair Trade is much more effective than Free Trade in eliminating poverty. According to GlobalExchange.com ”Free trade isn’t fair for farmers and artisans, their families, communities, or the environment. Fair Trade is. For example, a drastic fall in world coffee prices has pushed millions of coffee ...

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62 days ago by Vitality4all6

Labor day for most of us, is a BBQ in the park, family getting together, or a relaxing day off of work! Labor day is much more then that. Many took a stand and made a difference for each of us to have time off to spend with our families, to stop our children [...] Related posts: Michael Jackson; An ...

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62 days ago by Larry James

Most of us may not be aware that growing numbers of American workers face real challenges at work around a very central issue: fair compensation for actual work performed. Not all American companies follow ethical compensation practices. The facts reported in a recent edition of The New York Times s ...

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