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Tacoma Fairtrade mural

Fairtrade America launches new awareness campaign with three murals

Sustainability organization partners with three retailers and acclaimed artists to create murals that celebrate Fairtrade farmers.
October 6, 2021
The campaign features murals in three major U.S. cities — Austin, Minneapolis, and Tacoma, Wa. — that connect stories of the people who produce the things we enjoy every day.
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L.A. Burdick

Seeking ‘better’ chocolate

Harvard professor Carla Martin pushes for consumers to buy socially-conscious chocolate.
Alyse Thompson
Alyse Thompson
March 21, 2018

Harvard professor Carla Martin is concerned with the ethics behind chocolate, particularly in terms of labor, politics and human rights. She says chocolate is springboard for discussing and addressing these issues.


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Ritter Sport cocoa

Ritter Sport touts 100 percent sustainable chocolate

2017 German Sustainability Award winner first major chocolate bar manufacturer to reach milestone.
Bernie Pacyniak
Bernie Pacyniak
January 26, 2018

All Ritter Sport products leaving Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG’s Waldenbuch, Germany, production site use chocolate that has been cultivated and processed under sustainable conditions, the company revealed Jan. 26.


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Cocoa farmer

Kickstarting help for Belizean cocoa farmers

Maya Mountain Cacao creates demonstration farm, hopes to boost output by 50 percent.
Maya Granit
October 22, 2014
Just outside San Pedro Columbia, a traditional Q’eqchi Maya village in southern Belize, lie 120 acres of pristine jungle where lush rainforest vegetation has grown wildly, taking advantage of the fertile soil.
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