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Monday, January 25, 2016

Equal Exchange: Fair Trade & Our Environment

At Equal Exchange, we believe in the power of authentic Fair Trade to make the world a better place. Here are 3 ways that Fair Trade supports environmental stewardship.

Video:

https://youtu.be/xYzl_YwTULk?list=PLXPcCPkwqAvhn2-_t55XJ3kNcSi-Vzl5L

The Importance of Fair Trade

Equal Exchange is a worker-owned fair trade company, founded in 1986, that offers consumers fairly traded gourmet coffee direct from small-scale farmer co-ops in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Equal Exchange seeks to establish an alternative model of trade, one that benefits small farmers directly through the following fair trade standards that apply to all Equal Exchange products:

Always pay a guaranteed minimum price to the farmer.
Work directly with democratic cooperatives of small scale farmers.
Provide vital advance credit to farmers.
Encourage ecologically sustainable farming practices.
Develop long-term trade relations based on trust and respect.
Offer consumers the finest gourmet, certified organic, shade-grown coffees.

Video: Equal Exchange: Fair Trade & CommunityAt Equal Exchange, we believe in the power of authentic Fair Trade to make the world a better place. Here are 3 ways that Fair Trade supports healthy, vibrant communities.
https://youtu.be/VB8WYvimu7w

Equal Exchange: Who We Are and What We Believe In

The UCC Fair Trade Project (formally the UCC Coffee Project) allows your congregation to partner with the UCC and Equal Exchange in building fair trade for small farming communities by serving fairly traded coffee, tea and cocoa, and chocolate, snacks, and olive oil for justice at fellowship hour on Sundays.

The UCC Coffee Project is a way for your congregation to join hands with communities in the developing world. As Christians we can address a consumer dilemma by buying coffee and other commodities that are fairly traded. Through the project, small farmers and their families gain more control over their lives, earn a fairer share of income, have access to credit and technical support, and gain a trading partner they can trust, a fair trade organization called Equal Exchange. And, through the project, members of your congregation can learn about consumption habits that support small scale farmers and workers throughout the world and encourage careful stewardship of God's creation. At fellowship hour, you will be taking action in a spirit of love.

What does it mean to create change with your everyday choices? We believe that something as simple as the coffee you drink has an effect on the planet and our global community, and you have the power to make that effect a positive one.

(See the video Equal Exchange: Who We Are and What We Believe In.) https://youtu.be/H3Cx5Jn9hgA

Sunday, April 26, 2015

Moyers and Company: Interviews with Environmental leaders

Watch online here:

Moyers on Climate Change, the Environment and What Needs to Be Done: interviews with environmental leaders. The one on divestment from fossil fuel investments and the one on climate change: faith and fact are very pertinent.

http://billmoyers.com/2014/09/24/playlist-environmental-shows/

The latest in a string of dire reports on climate change came this week from the United Nations’ meteorological advisory body, which said that the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record high in 2013, due to a “surge” in carbon dioxide, prompting fears of an accelerated warming of the planet.

A majority of Americans think global warming is real and that human activity’s a factor, believing in the science behind reports on climate change. But some two-thirds of white evangelical Christians aren’t convinced.

In the face of those who use religion to deny the worldwide crisis of climate change, climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, an evangelical Christian, believes that her faith is compatible with science. This week she speaks to Bill about ending the gridlock between science and religion in order to find solutions to the widespread threats associated with global warming.

“…The New Testament talks about how faith is the evidence of things not seen,” says Hayhoe, who was recently named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People. “By definition, science is the evidence of things that are seen, that can be observed, that are quantifiable. And so that’s why I see faith and science as two sides of the same coin.”

A World of Solutions: The U.N. Climate Sequel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm5DxojGAEI

A week after the short film What's Possible opened the U.N. Climate Summit, Lyn Lear and director Louie Schwartzberg are back with a sequel that expands on their vision for climate change solutions.

Lear wrote in The Huffington Post:

Director Louie Schwartzberg and I had similar visions about the beauty and natural violence of evolution and the millions of years it took before human beings arrived on this planet. Then beginning with the Industrial Revolution, in less than two hundred years, man had almost brought this beautiful, complex creation to the brink of extinction. Inconceivable…right?

We wanted to show that we are still in peril, but more, we have the means to solve our problems in the present. There are many reasons to be optimistic and hopeful.

Part of that hope was to make a comparison of the semi-conscious mycelium root/soil system of the earth that feeds all plant life to the burgeoning Internet-connected global society we are evolving into today. If we could learn to use the Internet and mass media wisely we could be a powerful means for good and for progress.

Learn more about climate change, and take action at takepart.com/climate.

WHAT'S POSSIBLE: The U.N. Climate Summit Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vaajVtgRuI

Presented to world leaders at the United Nations Climate Summit in New York, this short inspirational film shows that climate change is solvable. We have the technology to harness nature sustainably for a clean, prosperous energy future, but only if we act now. Narrated by Morgan Freeman, it calls on the people of the world to insist leaders get on the path of a livable climate and future for humankind.

Learn more about climate change and take action at takepart.com/climate.

WHAT'S POSSIBLE was created by a team including director Louie Schwartzberg, producer Lyn Davis Lear, writer Scott Z. Burns, Moving Art Studio, and the Lear Family Foundation.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Home, the Film

We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate.

The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being.

For this purpose, HOME needs to be free. A patron, the PPR Group, made this possible. EuropaCorp, the distributor, also pledged not to make any profit because Home is a non-profit film.

HOME has been made for you : share it! And act for the planet.

http://youtu.be/jqxENMKaeCU

Monday, January 25, 2016

Video: Equal Exchange: Fair Trade & CommunityAt Equal Exchange, we believe in the power of authentic Fair Trade to make the world a better place. Here are 3 ways that Fair Trade supports healthy, vibrant communities.https://youtu.be/VB8WYvimu7w

Sunday, April 26, 2015

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Video: Equal Exchange: Fair Trade & CommunityAt Equal Exchange, we believe in the power of authentic Fair Trade to make the world a better place. Here are 3 ways that Fair Trade supports healthy, vibrant communities.
https://youtu.be/VB8WYvimu7w