Archive for July, 2008
July 28, 2008
I teach the Marketing class at Bainbridge Graduate Institute in the Fall along with my teaching partner, Dr. April Atwood from the University of Washington. Many of my students end up eventually launching the businesses that they conceive of in my class.
My students from last Fall just graduated and I was recently on a judging panel for [...]
Posted in How you can help | Tags: Bainbridge Graduate Institute, compost, Marketing |
July 23, 2008
A few months ago Green Girls Global wrote a post on Fair Trade Sports and their thoughts on fair play. It was quite a compliment to be endorsed by a team such as theirs.
Green Girls Global started in 2006 when the blog City Hippy ended. The editors of City Hippy, who all happened to be [...]
Posted in Fair Trade sporting goods, Fair Trade: learn more, Press: what others are saying | Tags: City Hippy, fair play, fair trade, Fair Trade Sports balls, Green Girls Global, Green Guys Global |
July 16, 2008
Jacob Levitt is a student with a mission-to prevent child labor, and to ensure fair labor practices for everyone, young and old.
Jacob is now thirteen and first learned about child labor when he was in sixth grade and his class began a lesson on it. He was horrified to learn that children around the world [...]
Posted in Fair Trade sporting goods, Fair Trade: learn more, How you can help, Press: what others are saying | Tags: child labor, fair trade, fair trade sports, labor rights, soccer balls |
July 14, 2008
Our local Seattle Times newspaper recently launched a new quarterly magazine called Footprint: Tread Lightly.
I appreciate the point-of-view from one of the writers – Mary Rothschild – about the increasing demand for everything green, or what she calls “Green Gone Wild”:
Yes, it’s a jungle out there when it comes to the proliferation of green products, [...]
Posted in Eco impact: green sports balls, Press: what others are saying |
July 10, 2008
What does a Fair Trade premium mean to a family in Sialkot?
Chandrika is 30 year old and works as a tapper on Frocester Estate, the first supplier of FSC-certified fairly traded rubber that is used in Fair Trade Sports products. She is pictured here holding a pair of sneakers from our sister company Autonomie Project [...]
Posted in Eco impact: green sports balls, Fair Trade: learn more | Tags: clean water, eco-certified rubber, Fair Trade rubber, Fairly Traded rubber, green rubber |
July 7, 2008
Co-op America stands for many of the things that I believe in.
They help the world become a better place by providing the National Green Pages (a directory of green businesses from coast to coast), by offering education for US consumers about Fair Trade, and by collating reports of abusive labor practices around the world. They provide information [...]
Posted in Fair Trade: learn more, How you can help, Press: what others are saying | Tags: Co-op America, fair trade, green thinking, National Green Pages, respect, responsibility |
July 4, 2008
Pack an eco-friendly picnic for this holiday weekend. Raina Gardner of Green Living Northwest shares tips on packing an eco-friendly picnic in this informative video.
And how to put the fun into your green picnic? Raina thinks it is our green sports balls. Thanks, Raina!
Enjoy the weekend!
Posted in Eco impact: green sports balls, Press: what others are saying | Tags: eco-friendly picnic, Green Living Northwest, green picnic, Raina Gardner |
July 2, 2008
I spent some time talking with the hosts of the Champion Soccer Radio Network show The Two G’s recently. The Two G’s airs Monday through Friday on Sirius Satellite Radio. The show has only been around since Fall 2007 but it’s built up quite a fan base in that time.
We have producer and host Diana Germano (pictured here in the [...]
Posted in Fair Trade: learn more, Press: what others are saying | Tags: Bill Bradley, Champion Soccer Radio Network, Hollywood United Girls Soccer, HUGS, Sirius Satellite Radio, The Two Gs, US soccer team |
