Archive for January, 2008
January 30, 2008
Sundance Film Festival with Your Vegas, an amazing new band from the UK.
They had fun with what they kept referring to as our Fair Trade “football”.
The band is pictured here lounging with our eco-certified soccer ball and Joe Tomlinson, Founder of RE:VOLVE Apparel Project , a very cool new eco-company and creator [...]
Posted in Press: what others are saying | Tags: eco certified soccer ball, fair trade soccer ball, greenloop, Joe Tomlinson, RE:VOLVE, Sundance Festival, Your Vegas |
January 25, 2008
Shymala has high hopes for her granddaughter Roopa, and for her future. Roopa is 14 years old and is in the 9th grade, along with her best friend Mahalakshmi.
Shymala and Roopa live in one of the rooms of New Ambadi Rubber Estate, where we source our eco-certified Fair Trade rubber for our sports balls. These [...]
Posted in Eco impact: green sports balls, Fair Trade sporting goods | Tags: eco-certified, eco-friendly, Fair Trade sporting goods, latex, rubber |
January 23, 2008
The Giving Suite at the Sundance Festival in Park City, Utah is a hopping place this week.
They’ve taken the idea behind a “Gifting Suite” – where celebrities, VIPs, and trendsetters get handed bags of free stuff – and changed it to a Giving Suite, where those folks can purchase products like our eco-certified Fair Trade soccer [...]
Posted in Charities we support, Press: what others are saying | Tags: eConsciousMarket, fair trade soccer balls, Giving is the new getting, Giving Suite, Joe and Amy Tomlinson, Mathew Gerson, RE:VOLVE Apparel Project, Sundance Festival |
January 21, 2008
My son is writing this blog post with me from my office (he’s out of school today).
He studied “The Peacemakers” in school this year – including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – whose quote I have posted on my wall.
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his [...]
Posted in Fair Trade sporting goods | Tags: Dr. Martin Luther King, Father Hesburgh, Jr., University of Notre Dame |
January 17, 2008
Check out this video from Fair Indigo, a fair trade clothing company headquartered near Madison Wisconsin.
There, you’ll meet Karina Madelaine Perez Leon, an extraordinary young woman who has made a big impression in her community in Peru, while she stands just two and a half feet tall!
Karina is making handcrafted jewelry in her first-ever real [...]
Posted in How you can help, Wholesale and custom design | Tags: Angeles Anonimos, Anonymous Angels, children's Fair Trade soccer ball, Fair Indigo |
January 15, 2008
Kadir Ensurre is a welder. He makes security grills and window fencing
for people’s homes.
He also repairs tools and metal furniture. He says he is always busy because there is such a demand for his type of work. His small workshop is on a busy road, so he attracts passing trade as well as having regular [...]
Posted in Fair Trade: learn more | Tags: fair trade soccer balls, fair trade sports, micro-credit loans, Micro-credit programs |
January 10, 2008
What’s your eco-resolution for 2008?
Make a short video (max 2 minutes) about what you plan to do for the earth this year and submit it to QuantumShift.tv’s eco-resolutions contest. Prizes include eco-certified Fair Trade soccer balls, footballs, and more!
It could be personal, political, local or global. Any action you can think of that moves [...]
Posted in How you can help | Tags: eco-resolution, fair trade soccer ball, QuantumShift.tv |
