Comments on: Join the World’s Largest Fair Trade Coffee Break tomorrow http://greenlagirl.com/join-the-worlds-largest-fair-trade-coffee-break-tomorrow/ Urban environmental lifestyle blog in Los Angeles Sat, 26 May 2012 08:36:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: tedl http://greenlagirl.com/join-the-worlds-largest-fair-trade-coffee-break-tomorrow/comment-page-1/#comment-286084 tedl Wed, 14 May 2008 09:24:51 +0000 http://greenlagirl.com/2008/05/09/join-the-worlds-largest-fair-trade-coffee-break-tomorrow/#comment-286084 You've posted a lot of great articles on some of the controversy surrounding Fair Trade before (Geoff Watts interviews, to be precise). Great work there. But as "green LA girl", how do you see a program dealing with social and economic issues -- and not environmental issues -- qualifying as "green"? Seriously, and I'm only being half facetious, shouldn't they be "brown" or "black"?? People have a frequent misconception blurring the lines of environmental goods and social/economic progressiveness being one and the same. Sometimes they can be at odds with each other, let alone independent. After all, Fair Trade coffee doesn't necessarily mean "organic" or ban all use of pesticides. You’ve posted a lot of great articles on some of the controversy surrounding Fair Trade before (Geoff Watts interviews, to be precise). Great work there.

But as “green LA girl”, how do you see a program dealing with social and economic issues — and not environmental issues — qualifying as “green”?

Seriously, and I’m only being half facetious, shouldn’t they be “brown” or “black”??

People have a frequent misconception blurring the lines of environmental goods and social/economic progressiveness being one and the same. Sometimes they can be at odds with each other, let alone independent.

After all, Fair Trade coffee doesn’t necessarily mean “organic” or ban all use of pesticides.

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