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Coin and the Common Wealth
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The Equal Exchange, Fair Trade, Cooperative, Investment Blog
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Socialist? We can’t agree (with poll)
We recently held our Equal Exchange Annual Retreat - much fun was had - and one game involved a question:
Is Equal Exchange a socialist organization?
The choices were Strongly Agree, Agree, Disagree, Strongly Disagree. We quickly divided into two main camps, and proceeded to agree and disagree with each other.
What do you think? This [...]
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Welcome to our new blog
This blog is dedicated to investment in Fair Trade and cooperatives and to the investment community of Equal Exchange in particular. We hope to get to know each better other and explore together how we can advance our common wealth.
Business as usual is destroying our planet, so need some unusual businesses. At Equal Exchange we [...]
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Coffee Cupping – breaking the crust
Two weeks ago, we did a coffee cupping at the offices of our friends and investors Trillium Asset Management. I joined Alistair, and Beth Ann and Mike from our Quality Control team, for a two-hour tasting.
Thinking about coffee cupping with Brokers and Bankers, I didn’t expect everything to be very relaxed and open. Yet beginning [...]
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A Social Capitalist Award - for us
Back in April, I went to Washington, D.C., to collect a Social Capitalist Award presented by Fast Company. There were 10 for-profit companies and 35 non-profits that met the Award’s criteria: check them out. Two of our financial friends, Calvert Foundation and Root Capital, were also winners.
The Award has been around for five years, but [...]
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The nickel is coming. Thank you.
On June 1, 2008, the official Fair Trade minimum price for coffee goes up five cents.
Didn’t it go up last year? Why, yes it did. In 2007, FLO (the Fair Trade standards body) raised prices 5-10 cents. But Equal Exchange and many of our 100% Fair Trade colleagues felt that wasn’t enough. We could have [...]
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