Archive for January, 2008

More fun at Sundance Festival

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 of [...]

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Added benefits of fair trade rubber

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. [...]

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Giving. It’s the New Getting.

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 [...]

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Celebrating the peacemakers

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 [...]

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Video: The Green Guide

January 19, 2008

Solvie Karlstrom of National Geographic’s Green Guide recently featured our eco-friendly Fair Trade football on CBS as one of her favorite items this season. “The other item that I really like this year is this fairly traded football, it’s lined with eco certified rubber, which comes from the rubber trees of well managed forests.” explains Ms.Karlstrom. Check out [...]

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Video: Karina’s new life…

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 [...]

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Micro-credit loans provide real help

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 [...]

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Eco-resolutions contest

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 [...]

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