World Fair Trade Day 2009 (plus D:2:E wrapup)
Happy World Fair Trade Day, everyone! (And a happy Fair Trade Fortnight, too — the celebrating stretches on through May 16.)
In addition to the World’s Largest Coffee Break, which has turned into an annual tradition, festivities for this year’s WFTD include the multi-city “Big Bang Stomp.” Folks across the globe — in London, Seattle, Reykjavik, Dakar, Nairobi, Tokyo, Manila, Christchurch (New Zealand), and the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu — are picking up drums (or even buckets and trash-can lids) and making a joyful racket to get the word out about fair trade.
On a related note, we went to the second-annual Down:2:Earth expo last month, and we had a blast. Just like we did last time! The highlights:
- checking out the fascinating panel “The Future of Cars”
- sampling a tasty amuse bouche prepared by chef Mary Dumont (of the way-upscale Harvest restaurant in Cambridge)
- reading anonymous confessions of un-green behavior, as scrawled on a ZipCar
- gawping at local designers’ handiwork at the “Eco-Chic Fashion Show”
- seeing some familiar faces — like Equal Exchange and Mass Farmers Markets!
Check it out!
Oh, and a short ZipiZape Artisans update for y’all: As you may have noticed, our online store, www.zipizapeartisans.com, is currently offline. Fear not; we shall return. We’ve got a big relaunch in the works, so we’ll be on hiatus until we finish our retooling the site. Call it spring cleaning. In the meantime, you can still hang with us here. Or on MySpace. Or on Twitter.
