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Green Living Piece (March 30, 2017 ) Three women who bring their families together through a brilliant idea.
food, meals, dinner, healthy food, potluck, family, cooperative

Green Living Piece (March 30, 2017 ) An ingenious way to join as a community.

Green Living Piece (March 30, 2017 ) Bring your community together and aid elders, children, and pets.
cooperative, community, car sharing

Green Living Piece (March 30, 2017 ) Bottled water comes with hefty social and environmental costs. Here’s why bottled water isn’t worth the price many pay for it.
bottled water

Green Living Piece (March 30, 2017 ) If you choose the right filter, you can minimize or eliminate the contaminants of highest concern. Here’s what you need to know about water filters.
water filters

Green Living Piece (March 30, 2017 ) A toxic candle can affect your personal health as well as home appliances. To protect yourself and your home, make sure your candles are safe.
non-toxic candles

Piece (March 30, 2017 ) My colleagues Martha van Gelder and Tracy Fernandez Rysavy have been sharing their experience with kicking the sugar habit on this blog for the past week or so. We’ve all been delving deeply into sugar issues recently, working to prepare “…
sugar, fair trade, organic food

Piece (March 30, 2017 )   A small bit of light came out of Bangladesh today in the wake of the Rana Plaza building collapse that has to date killed at least 244 people—most of them garment factory workers making clothes for US retailers. The CBC reports that 40…
Rana Plaza, Bangladesh, Bangladesh Accord

Piece (March 30, 2017 )   Last Friday, the US State Department released its 2014 Global Trafficking in Persons Report—an annual report that documents human trafficking around the world and each country’s efforts to combat the issue. In this report, State downgraded…
Thailand, fishing, fair labor

Piece (March 30, 2017 ) What is the problem with smartphone manufacturing? We answer your most frequent questions on smartphone sweatshops.
smartphone sweatshops

Piece (March 30, 2017 ) When you shop for new clothes, a number of factors can affect the social and environmental impacts of your purchases. For example, about 14.2 million workers worldwide are trapped in forced and exploitative working conditions, including those in…
clothing, green clothing, bamboo, industrial hemp, recycled polyester, wool, pesticide

Piece (March 30, 2017 ) During WWII, the British Ministry of Information released a pamphlet titled “Make Do and Mend.” It provided tips on how to be both frugal and stylish in times of harsh rationing. Readers were advised to create pretty “decorative patches” to cover…
green clothing

Piece (March 30, 2017 ) This spring, Green America’s End Smartphone Sweatshops campaign, in partnership with China Labor Watch (CLW), called on Apple to remove toxic chemicals including benzene and n-hexane from its supplier factories in China. Only five months into the…
apple products

Piece (March 30, 2017 ) Green America and China Labor Watch released the findings of an undercover investigation we conducted at one of Apple’s supplier factories.
Apple

Piece (March 30, 2017 ) Recently, Dan Watch and Electronics Watch released Winds of Change, a report which details the harsh working conditions of the electronics manufacturing sector, particularly the problems caused by occupational exposure to dangerous chemicals. The…
fair labor, smartphone sweatshops, sweatshops, Chinese factories, workers rights, Samsung

Piece (March 30, 2017 ) Finding Fair Trade products has never been easier. Not only has the steady growth of the Fair Trade market brought more and more products into supermarkets and local retail stores, but the internet has brought almost every possible Fair Trade…
fair trade, fair labor, sustainable business

Piece (March 30, 2017 ) Learn why fair trade and fair labor are important for the next time you buy chocolate, clothes, or any number of products.
fair trade

Piece (March 30, 2017 ) In the U.S., about 80% of consumed sugar is produced domestically. However, what is imported often comes from impoverished sugarcane farmers in the global south. Fair Trade Certified™ sugar protects sugarcane farmers against the volatile world…
sugar farmers, sugarcane farmers, sugar industry, fair trade

Piece (March 30, 2017 ) New phones come out every few months, with new bells and whistles? Do you really need one? See our graphic about how to make your phone last longer.
smartphones, smartphone sweatshops, green living, recycled products

Piece (March 30, 2017 ) Cocoa is a $16 billion a year industry, but the average annual revenue the cocoa farmers receives is between $30 and $110 per household. The Fair Trade certification for chocolate has given over 42,000 cocoa farmers in West Africa, the Caribbean,…
cocoa farming, fair trade, child labor