June 2005 | Green Lines
STEEPED IN FAIR TRADE: Seattle-based Choice Organic Teas, a brand of Granum, Inc., has announced all of its Rooibos teas will be Fair Trade Certified by August. The company has been working with TransFair USA during the past year to accomplish the feat.
Tea drinkers and disadvantaged farmers alike will benefit. Rooibos means “red bush”; the flowering bush is native to South Africa. It is caffeine-free with deep, full-bodied flavor. Visit www.choiceorganicteas.com and/or www.transfairusa.org for more information.
LOCAL ECONOMIES COURSE: Whidbey Institute, in association with Schumacher College (see “Walking the Walk,” EM, Jan. ’05, www.evergreenmonthly.com), presents a residential course, “Exploring Local Living Economies and Community-based Business,” July 17-24 at its picturesque Whidbey Island campus. Local ownership, self-reliance, sustainability, entrepreneurship, green investing/purchasing and economic justice will be covered by instructor Michael Shuman, author of “Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age” and a founding board member of BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies). Visit www.whidbeyinstitute.org or call 360-341-1884 for more details.
ALL EYES ON SUSTAINABILITY: Environmental Home Center, one of Seattle’s inspirational green businesses (even before its rebuilding from a fire) has launched an eye-catching campaign to promote sustainable wood products. You can find the ad in the May issue of EM and probably noticed it on one or more of 23 Metro buses assigned to run the outside side panel ad. It features six naked men with a strategically placed slab of (natch) sustainable wood.
EHC offers up this “naked truth” as part of its awareness campaign to homeowners and builders: Since global wood consumption is expected to increase 50 percent by the year 2050 and Americans use 27 percent of the wood commercially harvested worldwide, we must manage our forests responsibly if we are to have high quality and a variety of wood available in this century. Consumer demand for sustainable wood products will help improve our forest health. Check out www.environmentalhomecenter.com.
MEET WITH GREEN THINKERS: Clear your schedule for the afternoon of June 15. An impressive group of green thinkers is meeting at Seattle University’s Student Center (Room 210, 1-6 p.m., $20) as part of a “Putting the Sustainability Puzzle Together” program. There will a facilitated discussion, breakout groups, open-space sessions and a post-event social hour for informal networking and drinks. Among the participants: BALLE, Bainbridge Graduate Institute, Grist, Governors Panel on Sustainability, Interra, Newground Social Investments, Northwest Environment Watch, Positive Futures Network, Port of Seattle, Sustainable Style Foundation, Social Enterprise Group, Network for Business Innovation and Sustainability and Evergreen Monthly. Visit www.brownpapertickets.com for registration.
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