Author: Daniela

  • 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…

  • Sikkim first fully organic state in India

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    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…

  • Unravel Documentary

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    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…

  • What the Earth will look like in 250 million years

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    This originally appeared on Mail Online.

  • Balinese School Provides Organic Diet to Autistic Students

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    I wish I could follow this story over time.  I’d be interested to see what kind of impact feeding only organic food to children with autism and other diabilities has in the long run.  From the article, in TheJakartaPost, it appears there are many other factors, employed by the school, that contribute to the positive…

  • Start the New Year Right with these Health Documentaries

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    Yahoo! News brings you a list of 10 Health Documentaries you can stream to get a healthy start for the new year.  “Forks Over Knives” – The 2011 title discusses researchers Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn’s findings about obesity and diabetes. The film highlights the benefits of rejecting animal-based and processed foods in your…