fair trade

Axis:Image: 

Paying More for Less at Peet's Coffee? Green'em Up Folks!

Last week I was doing my sustainability thing with Louis the Manager at the Peet's on Burlingame Ave. in Burlingame, CA, my home town coffee pipe.

Wondering out loud as to why my small coffee to go costs the same even when I ask for "room for cream" and "no sleeve."

"Hey Luis, I called out, why not give a little savings back to the customer? You can have the cardboard and coffee drip for another sale."

Sustainability vs Profits?

Axis:Image: 

Timber-tracking to Furniture Making: The Sustainable Heart in GreenWoodGlobal.org. Interview with President Scott Landis, by Willi Paul.

The GreenWood Mission:

• Teaches men and women of all ages to become skilled artisans and producers of high-value woodwork.
  
• Helps those artisans sell their products in local, regional and export markets.

Axis:Image: 

The New Barter Brigade

by Willi Paul

Axis:Image: 

About Favorpals (beta)
http://www.favorpals.com/favorpals/jsp/index.jsp

Press:
http://favorpals.wordpress.com/favorpals-press-room/

We are a small team of software developers that has been engaged with the Internet since the early nineties. Favorpals is our response to the untapped potential for mutual benefit that we see in the connections billions of people are making on the World Wide Web every day. Our company is dedicated to the belief that human beings can better serve each other through a spirit of collective cooperation.

Axis:Image: 

Stick'em Up!
Tom Abate, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, August 3, 2009

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/03/MNSK191072.DTL

At a farm in Manteca, in San Joaquin County, workers smack labels onto watermelons freshly cut from the vine, each sticker bearing a unique string of letters and numbers that identifies where they were harvested.

Axis:Image: 

The Great American Bubble Machine
From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression - and they're about to do it again

ROLLINGSTONE

Written by: MATT TAIBBI
POSTED JUL 13, 2009 1:49 PM

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/29127316/the_great_american_b...

Axis:Image: 

Pete Seeger
http://www.peteseeger.net/biograph.htm

Musician, singer, songwriter, folklorist, labor activist, environmentalist, and peace advocate, Seeger was born in Patterson, New York, son of Charles and Constance Seeger, whose families traced their ancestry back to the Mayflower. Seeger grew up in an unusually politicized environment. His father, Charles, had been a music professor at the University of California at Berkeley, where his pacifism won him so many enemies that he quit teaching in the fall of 1918.

Axis:Image: 

The Humboldt Exchange is Humboldt County's own local currency project.
http://www.humboldtexchange.org/index.htm

Individual participants agree to accept half payment for their goods and services in a local currency made just for Humboldt. Over 60 local businesses also accept Community Currency.

Axis:Image: 

Press Release by LongBow.net 4/7/09
Earth Day Party - Awaken Cafe - eMagazine and Green Job Exchange Out Now!

PlanetShifter.com Announces Earth Day Party at Awaken Café Group to Premier their eMagazine, “GreenCatcherUnion” and Green Job Exchange

Axis:Image: 

Image 5/5 | “Neighborhood Sites” - PlanetShifter.com | Community Event Circle | 3-24-09 - 3-31-09

Frozen fish, danger fish.

Please offer your comments, including (but not limited to) the following:

1. What are your first impressions of the image and questions arise for group?
2. How do you understand and apply sustainable principles to this scene?
3. How can we do something better?

* Use anything to react with - and advance ideas. Give us URLs, quotes, comments, and files

Axis:Image: 

the reservoir: rock music and mythology -- Willi Paul (1996 - present)

The Reservoir: Rock Music and Mythology
http://www.willipaul.com/rockmyth/rockmyth.html

Axis:Image: 

The Center on Ecotourism and Sustainable Development
Stanford University

Projects > Research Study:
The Impact of Tourism Related Development Along Costa Rica's Pacific Coast

Goal and Purpose:
This study will assess the growth, trends, and impacts of tourism and tourism-related

Axis:Image: 

Jackson Browne
http://www.jacksonbrowne.com/readings

UTube Video1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z68PH0q5dp0
UTube Video2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuzXEa1HJAY&feature=related

Before The Deluge

Some of them were dreamers
And some of them were fools
Who were making plans and thinking of the future
With the energy of the innocent
They were gathering the tools
They would need to make their journey back to nature
While the sand slipped through the opening
And their hands reached for the golden ring

Axis:Image: 

John Michael Stipe (born January 4, 1960 in Decatur, Georgia)...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stipe (refs)

Axis:Image: 

Benjamin Franklin - Quick Bio
http://www.ushistory.org/Franklin/info/index.htm

On PBS: http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/index.html

Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, 1706. He was the tenth son of soap maker, Josiah Franklin. Benjamin's mother was Abiah Folger, the second wife of Josiah. In all, Josiah would father 17 children.