Monthly Archives: August 2016

25 years ago Patricia Thorndike married into a Dominican family that lived in extreme poverty. Several family members had lost their lives to diseases that money and access to proper health care could have cured. She saw her husband’s family home taken away by a hurricane. Since that time she has been passionate about alleviating […]

In De Standaard of 14 May 2016 the Dutch philosopher Wouter Mensink was interviewed on fairtrade and the fact whether buying fairtrade can make a change. Mensink himself is the prototype of the conscious consumer, but he doubts that conscious buying will improve the world. “In the Netherlands only 5% of the people buy sustainable […]