Author: Daniela

  • Photo of the Day

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    Biswajit Dihidar shares his thoughts and stories through the lens of his camera.  Check out Viewfound for more intriguing pictures…  

  • Socially Relevant Film Festival

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    Did you know there is a socially relevant film festival in New York? The festival was started by Nora Armani in 2015 to focus… “on socially relevant film content, and human interest stories that raise awareness to social problems and offer positive solutions through the powerful medium of cinema. SR believes that through raised awareness,…

  • International Women’s Day

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    How International Women’s Day Started International Women’s Day will be celebrated tomorrow, March 8th.  If you are wondering how it got started, here’s a brief history. In accordance with a declaration by the Socialist Party of America, the first National Women’s Day was observed across the United States in 1909 on February 28th. The following…

  • Women’s Day Special

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    The World Fair Trade Organization is celebrating Women’s History Month with a series of podcasts featuring Fair Trade Enterprises started and run by women. Allison Havens founded Yabal Handicrafts in Guatemala to keep alive indigenous weaving techniques and create livelihoods for local women. Today, the women producers are becoming the main income earners in their…

  • Covilli Brand Organics inaugurates health clinic for workers

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    Fair Trade makes a difference in the lives of workers.

  • Fair Trade Fortnight Helps Farmers and Their Families

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    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…

  • Back on track and going strong

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    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…

  • Alternative Economy Promotes Gender Equality in Northern Syria

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    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…

  • This Week’s New Economy News

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    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…

  • Natural Dyes Save Lives

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    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…