Author: Daniela
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Covilli Brand Organics inaugurates health clinic for workers
Fair Trade makes a difference in the lives of workers.
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Fair Trade Fortnight Helps Farmers and Their Families
Helen Mead summarizes what Fair Trade means to farmers and their families in the developing world where… many workers face harsh living conditions, low pay and exploitation. They do not have access to even basic medical care or an education for themselves or their children. The global Fair Trade movement helps to remedy this by…
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Back on track and going strong
The 2020 elections have already started. In their bid for office, candidates and their surrogates have spent hours of air time and columns of print on income inequality, climate change and social division. These issues are not new to the readers of The Noah Project. We’ve been talking about them, among ourselves, for years. In…
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Alternative Economy Promotes Gender Equality in Northern Syria
There is so little positive news coming out of Syria these days that I was surprised and heartened when I found this article published in Kurdishquestion.com. Although it specifically covers the efforts in Rojava, a region in Northern Syria, to establish grassroots assemblies and cooperatives, it speaks to the larger question of how to democratise all…
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This Week’s New Economy News
There are a lot of interesting and exciting things happening on the new economy front this week. This from New Zealand: Jan. 24 (BusinessDesk) – New Zealand’s top 30 cooperatives contribute more than $42.3 billion per annum to the economy in revenue, a new report has found. The report, by industry body Cooperative Business New…
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Natural Dyes Save Lives
Conventional textile manufacturing is poisonous to its workers and to the land, but there are alternatives. A new crop of small businesses is investing in organic farming, natural dyes and a transparent supply chain that encourages shoppers to think about the effect of their purchases — and they’re selling their products online and in a…
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Sikkim first fully organic state in India
Sikkim celebrates acheiving the status of the first fully organic state in India. According to The Indian Express the plan was first proposed in 2003. It took 13 years to convert 75,000 hectares (over 185,300 acres) to certified organic agricultural land. It is also judged to be the cleanest state and best in education as well…
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Unravel Documentary
This is the final resting place of your cast-off clothing When people in the West throw their clothes away, their cast-offs often go on a journey east, across the oceans, to India’s industrial interior. From the Kutch District of western India to the northern city of Panipat, garment recyclers turn into yarn the huge bales…
The Village Market 