(one pound; whole bean) Heavy (full bodied and earthy) and light (bright acidity and aroma) all at once. They've combined their Guatemalan and Sumatran to give a rich, thick mouth feel with a pleasant finish.
Price: 10.75
Each tree-free, blank-paged journal gift set is wrapped horizontally with an elegant ribbon that holds a matching Boku notebook. The sets are enclosed in a resealable bag with distinctive die-cut stickers on the front. There is a printed insert in the back of the package with product details and information about the environmental benefits of kenaf.
Country of Origin: United States Dimensions: Journal 9" x 6" (80 blank pages); Notebook 3" x 1 3/4" (64 blank pages).
Village artisans, ages 6 to 60, work collectively in Artesania Sorata to create these dolls and other Aymara Indian handicrafts. Each doll is designed and fastened from natural handspun and hand-woven wool and alpaca, as well as Bolivian grown, factory woven cotton muslin fabrics. The fabric is hand-dyed with natural vegetable dyes or high quality chemical dyes creating tones found in traditional pieces. Each doll is dressed in traditional Aymara clothing as Bolivian communities of the Andes can still be found wearing today.Choose from three adult dolls: female doll with baby on her back; male doll in traditional poncho, and male doll with pan flute. Woman with Llama is Only Style Available Or choose the child doll holding her llama. All dolls come with a tag that identifies the women that designed and sewed each individual doll.
Country of Origin: Bolivia Dimensions: Adult Dolls 8.5" tall ; Child Dolls 4 1/2" tall
This simple handsome chain bracelet makes a wonderful gift for a man or a woman. The Balinese artisans refer to this style of chain as "Borobodur," after the magnificent Buddhist temple in Java. Featuring a clasp with a hand-formed sterling silver hook, it is comfortable to wear and catches the light as it moves.
This bracelet is a style that can be worn by a man or woman. Choose a Native Leaf Jewelry Bag to make your gift extra special.
This simple handsome chain necklace makes a wonderful gift for a man or a woman. The Balinese artisans refer to this style of chain as "Borobodur," after the magnificent Buddhist temple in Java. Featuring a clasp with a hand-formed sterling silver hook, it is comfortable to wear and catches the light as it moves. This neckalce is a style that can be worn by a man or woman. Choose a Native Leaf Jewelry Bag to make your gift extra special.
Secure your small treasures within this tapered chest with brass accents and lock and key. This ornamental Oak chest exemplifies the unique craftsmanship of Slavic folk art.
Country of Origin: Poland Dimensions: 5" x 5" x 3 1/2"
An elegant and modern handformed sterling silver cuff bracelet, inlaid with a beautiful textural pattern of sterling. This handsome bracelet molds to fit the wrist of either a man or a woman. Choose a Native Leaf Jewelry Bag to make your gift extra special.
Country of Origin: Indonesia Dimensions: 6.5 cm dia., approx 16.5 cm around
(one pound) Rise up singing with this soft and smooth blend of Vienna roasts: Costa Rican (hearty), Peruvian (sweet), Nicaraguan (bold and dry).
Price: 8.00
Produced by: Big Noise Films, Changing America, Headwaters Action Video Collective, JustAct, Paper Tiger TV, Sleeping Giant Productions, VideoActive and Whispered Media, in conjunction with the Independent Media CenterDrawing on the hard work of dozens of volunteer videographers, Breaking the Bank is a fast-moving collaborative work that documents and explains the April protests against the IMF and the World Bank. Unlike the corporate media coverage of this historic event, this new video explores the issues that drove the protests. Breaking the Bank draws connections between the policies of these two little-known institutions and international militarism, ecologically devastating development projects, genetic engineering, and poverty within the First World. Breaking the Bank features interviews with luminaries such as Dr. Vandana Shiva, as well as figures such as Susan Sarandon, Micheal Moore, and Zach De La Roche of Rage Against the Machine. Scenes of confrontation and harassment by a brutal police force are intercut with the passionate actions of thousands of protestors. Breaking the Bank will serve as a testament to the creativity, and conviction of the growing movement against corporate globalization. For more information, visit Global Exchange's IMF/World Bank Campaign. For information on institutional rates, please contact Earth Films directly.
Run Time: 74 Minutes Release Date: April 2000 Format: VHS
Fair Trade office supplies for the animal lover at heart. Keeping papers together and posting your shopping list on the refrigerator is as easy as one, two, three. These fun accessories are made from recycled car engine parts and then hand assembled by women's cooperatives in South Africa. Makes a great gift for the home or office. Each set contains one magnetic jumbo bulldog clip and two jumbo paper clips. Choose from the pig, fish, or elephant sets.
Country of Origin: South Africa Dimensions: Jumbo Paper Clips: 3 1/2 x 1/2 Magnetic Clip: 2 1/4 x 2
Illustrations by: Belkis Ramirez Throughout Central America it is a household ritual to offer a cafecito (a small cup of dark, rich, potent coffee) to any visitor, especially a stranger. Now, in a story spanning Nebraska and the Dominican Republic, Julia Alvarez offers us A Cafecito Story. In North America, coffee is the morning lifeline between waking and working. In Central and South America, coffee is an economic lifeline, after oil the most highly traded commodity in the world. Especially when coffee is grown sustainably, it links the First and Third Worlds in ways that are surprising and often delightful. North American songbirds, for instance, winter in habitats where their survival is directly dependent on coffee farming practices. With lyric simplicity, A Cafecito Story tells the complex tale of a social beverage that bridges nations and unites people in trade, in words, in birds, and in love. The story unfolds through the eyes of Joe, a man with farming in his blood but an increasing sense of displacement from the natural world. While on holiday in the Dominican Republic, Joe learns about how coffee is grown and traded from Miguel, a Dominican coffee farmer. It is from Miguel and the other campesinos that Joe comes to understand the role of coffee in global trade, environmental degradation, and endangered songbird habitat. Initially overwhelmed, Joe eventually learns to live compatibly with the natural world. Human communication, in the form of the written word, the spoken word, and the shared cup of coffee gives him the power to face life's challenges one cup at a time.
Julia Alvarez was born, as she puts it by accident, in New York City, but shortly thereafter her family moved back to their native Dominican Republic. She spent her childhood there until her family was forced to flee due to political pressure. Her first book of poems, Homecoming, debuted in 1984. Her first novel How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents was published in 1990, followed four years later by In the Time of the Butterflies which became a National Book Award finalist. Her most recent novel is In the Name of Salomon. She is a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College. She lives with her husband, Bill Eichner, in the Vermont countryside, but maintains ties to her native homeland through their organic coffee farm (Alta Gracia), established to demonstrate the ideas and principles of sustainable living. Belkis Ramí�rez, who contributed the woodcuts for A Cafecito Story, is one of the Dominican Republic's most celebrated artists. For more information, visit Global Exchange's Fair Trade Coffee campaign.
Language: Bilingual (Spanish and English) or English Paperback: 69 Pages Published: 2001
