Tea Giant Goes Fair Trade

Send to KindleTweet British tea giant Twinings joined the ranks of major beverage brands at last year’s Expo East to release a new line. This time, the tea brand was present to reveal a Fair Trade line of tea.  Twinings now offers a complete line of Fair Trade teas, from Rooibos to Chai to citrus and [...]

The Food Orgasm: Coconut Milk Frozen Dessert

Send to KindleTweet Love is the only reason I can justify spending $7 on a pint of frozen dessert. Tonight, when I brought my basket to the register at Garden of Eden, the checkout girl was dumbfounded when I responded $6.99 after the scanner failed to assign a price to my treat: Luna & Larry’s [...]

Ben & Jerry’s To Go Fair Trade

Send to KindleTweet Ben & Jerry’s has just given us one more reason to indulge in our favorite alternative to sex: ice cream. OK, we’d always choose the grind over any food, so long as he knows what he is doing, but ice cream is available at every corner deli and pretty soon, it will be [...]

Rachel Roy Announces Africa Initiative

Send to KindleTweet Many designers are inspired by African cultures but Rachel Roy is helping to create jobs for women through a new partnership that will source accessories from Africa. Designer Rachel Roy has partnered with Fairwinds Trading to integrate hand crafted items by female-owned businesses in Africa into her collection. Via her label, Rachel [...]

Target Beauty Goes Green

Send to KindleTweet One of America’s most loved big box retailers is expanding its “green” product offerings with the addition of new brands that are free of questionable chemical preservatives and foaming agents. Minnesota-based Target announced it will carry a number of new brands that do not test on animals and are free of parabens, [...]

Fairtrade Cosmetics On Rise

Send to KindleTweet It has been a slow and steady launch of fair trade cosmetics this year, but the trend is about to take off, according to CosmeticsDesign. Originally beginning in the food industry, it has been difficult for fair trade to transition into the beauty world due to strict certifications dictating the ingredients and [...]

The Humanitarian Business Model: Adina for Life

Send to KindleTweet Does the carbon footprint of American shopping habits take into account the unethical ingredient bidding wars we enable when we don’t buy fair trade? Does it take into account the jobs we help to sustain in developing nations when we choose to pay a bit more for fair trade? Should there be [...]

Healing Probiotic Tea

Send to KindleTweet High Country Kombucha might be the small beverage company that could. While there are many Kombucha tea companies that offer sexy packaging and trendy ingredients, we trust High Country. They have everything covered, from the new age-style packaging and the organic and Fair Trade certifications, to the “amber” bottle meant to “preserve [...]

Spotlight On Neem

Send to KindleTweet The principles of Ayurvedic medicine are gaining popularity in the United States every year, with commonly used herbs popping up everywhere from supplements to skincare. Here, we begin the first of a three-part series on cure-all ingredients most commonly found in India. From rural lands in Indian states to New York City, [...]

Superfood ObsessionWhat: Navitas Naturals has made entrepreneurship and green sexy with their discovery of many new superfoods from Latin America.

Send to KindleTweet The Dirt: Navitas Naturals is one of those companies you wish you’d started. Why didn’t I think of that? That’s what comes to mind when perusing the extensive array of products offered by this superfood company based outside San Francisco, in Marin County. Thanks to Founder and CEO Zach Adelman, we now [...]

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