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The “Fair Trade Your Supermarket” campaign

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May 7   Leave a Comment  

Fair trade is a system of exchange which ensures that farmers, artisans and other producers throughout the developing world are paid fair prices for their work and have direct involvement in the marketplace.

Fair is fair

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EarthTalk: Clean coal? Food packaging waste?

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Feb. 18, 2008   1 Comment  

Dear EarthTalk: As I understand it, coal that is used to fuel power plants and other industrial activity is a key culprit in pollution and climate change. So what is “clean coal” and is it really? — Matthew Oliver, Minneapolis, MN The term “clean coal” describes various processes that remove pollutants from coal, our cheapest, [...]

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