Seattle, WA boasts the first organic/fair-trade chocolate factory in the United States.
Theo Chocolate took over an old brewery in the Fremont district of the Pacific Northwest city last January. It is a small operation compared to its mega (non-organic) counterparts, which produce the confection for companies like Hershey’s and Nestle.
Theo founder, Joel Whinney not only wants to pursue the fine art of chocolate, but also wants to improve the lives of cocoa growers around the world.
Zeropointzero.org have launched a new activist website for people around the world who share the desire to take actions, no matter how small, towards change for good. The first action you are invited to take part in is to send a free Divine Fair Trade mini chocolate to a friend. It’s free to send, you’re spreading the Fair Trade message, and you and your friend will receive a £5 voucher off the full range of Divine Chocolate. It all makes perfect sense!
Thanks to EcoStreet forum member Elf for the tip.
Leading futurologist James Martin looks to our immediate future in his new book ‘The Meaning of the 21st Century: A Vital Blueprint for ensuring our Future’. If the 20th Century was all about ‘progress’, the 21st Century must be about transition, about reconsidering whether all progress, at the same rate, and in the same direction, isn’t in fact to charge towards our own extinction. Informed by interviews with experts worldwide, this book is set to have a great impact on society with fifteen challenges to secure a healthy future for the world:
Join James Martin in conversation with Baroness Greenfield about his new book on the 28th September at the Congress Centre, 28 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS. Tickets cost £5 and are available from Foyles, either online at their website, from the shop in Charing Cross Road, or you can call 0870 420 2777.
Keep an eye out for our review of James Martin’s new book in the near future.
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