Just over a week to go until Chocolate Week! Hoorah!
Divine Chocolate, the leading Fairtrade chocolate brand, is one of the sponsors of this year’s Chocolate Week taking place between 15 and 21 October 2007. Some of the UK’s top chocolatiers will be taking part – offering tantalising tasters of a range of excellent chocolates. Divine […]

Help change the world during your tea break. By switching your workplace to Fairtrade certified tea, coffee and other products, you can help make a difference to the lives of farmers and workers in some of the world’s poorest countries.
Find out the benefits of fair trade by visiting Fairtrade at work.

Last Wednesday evening I joined a delicious. food magazine reader event at Bordeaux Quay. Bordeaux Quay is a unique harbourside venue in Bristol with a restaurant, brasserie, bar, deli, bakery and cookery school. I was particularly interested in the restaurant because the management and staff work hard to make the whole experience as environmentally responsible […]

Ethics Girls is a new website designed for women who want to be green and ethical. With a shop packed full of the best in ethical and green products and with regular features on the issues, Ethics Girls is designed to keep everyone ahead in the world of ethical consumerism.
Ethics Girls’ founder is Sam Roger. […]

Photo (above) shows from left to right: Jackie Sweet, Infinity Foods, Lucy Siegle, Observer Ethical Columnist and Eliz Ridout, Infinity Foods.
It’s Linda again, phew, I have been busy, out and about!
I attended an Infinity Foods open evening at their North Laine cafe in Brighton last Saturday. It was great night and many thanks to everyone […]

Last weekend I was lucky enough to be invited by The Co-operative to a special screening of Black Gold, a film about coffee. The film takes a look at the coffee industry through the eyes of Tadesse Meskela, who is struggling to save his co-operative of 74,000 Ethiopian coffee farmers from bankruptcy. It was an […]

tc is now a member of Ethical Junction.
The Ethical Junction network provides information on positively screened companies and organisations and links you through to ethical and sustainable products and services provided by its members. Ethical Junction also publishes a newsletter called Ethical Pulse, which is a great way of keeping up with environmental and ethical […]

Change Today. Choose Fairtrade, is an urgent call to people in the UK to engage with the Fairtrade Foundation’s vision of an even bigger movement for positive change on unfair trade, including making the switch to buying Fairtrade. This is the theme of Fairtrade Fortnight 2007 (26 February - 11 March), the annual promotional campaign […]

Last year The Observer ethical awards were won by the “Make Poverty History” campaign, whilst other nominees included Jamie Oliver, Architecture for Humanity and Meare Village Primary School, who won the young campaigner of the year award. This year, nominations are being called for in nine categories.
A panel of experts will judge the nominations and […]

Here at tc we’re celebrating chocolate week, which you can imagine is an easier week to celebrate than most. If you’re going to indulge, make sure its fair trade chocolate from companies like divine who are sponsoring the week and who make dubble (our favourite).
Southampton is a Fairtrade city and so we’re lucky to be […]