Why, exactly, is protectionism so bad? Why can't we have fair trade that lifts workers and protects the environment instead of unregulated free trade that exploits workers and the environment?
When the leaders of the G-20 nations arrive in Pittsburgh, I want them to know I am fomenting revolution -- Industrial revolution. Specifically, a 21st-century burgeoning of green manufacturing in the United States.
Vague talk about future innovations, a post-industrial society, or an explosion of services exports is not the stuff on which to bet the prosperity of a nation.
Starbucks is already Fair-Trade. Now, they say they're going green -- and supporting local -- by 2010. If they actually do it, I might have to give up my 15-year buycott.
It now seems Washington's pandering to populist sentiments in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is going to actually result in jobs losses right here in the United States.
A publicity photo shoot for The Mother Nature Network goes off the rails when I dislocate my shoulder while half-neked in Columbus Circle.
A group of tire importers that should be competitors banded together recently to ally themselves with China in a trade case. Doesn't sound like th...
Yes, it's an unlikely path, but my career as a beverage entrepreneur actually has its roots in the national service movement.
In an industry-wide turn-around, many high-end labels are trying to change their luxury goods businesses by "double air kissing" new environmental and labor standards.
We need to make more things here. Developing new technology and consuming alone do not make for a stable economy, but that's been our economic strategy for the past decade.
At least 17 of the 20 major nations that vowed at a November summit to avoid protectionist steps that could spark a global trade war have violated tha...
Rio -- Brazil's president Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva got free coffee from President Obama at the White House Saturday. But back home he'll pay $20 f...
It's time to end the intolerant theocracy of free trade and usher in a responsible dialogue about what works and what doesn't work. Get out of the gutter and into the debate.
As twentysomethings, we have the power to influence the future of our environment. With our practices, our wallets and the Internet, we have the ability to significantly steer the course of the Green movement.
Some people make a lot of money for themselves by undermining our wage, safety and pollution standards. So they tell us that protecting ourselves is wrong.
In every community, there are these businesses -- and we should support them. But first, we have to learn about them. So, which are your favorites?
But chocolate made with an eye to its social and environmental impact needn't taste virtuous, as Sierra Club staffers recently found out.
I'm home from Turin, in northwestern Italy, where I attended Terra Madre, a 4-day gathering of farmers, fermenters, food transformers, cooks, food researchers, and writers from 154 countries.
Maggie Gyllenhaal hosted The Eco-Fashion Runway show presented by Gen Art to kick off L.A.'s Fashion Week.
Nobody is against trade. Nobody. Though "free" traders say that anyone opposing their agenda is "anti-trade" that's just not true...at all. Fair traders are for vigorous trade, just with a different set of rules.
Under the right set of circumstances -- like impending balloting on their re-election -- Congressmen do respond to public outcry.
Their tattered spiral covers showed the wear and tear of being stuffed into book bags, hauled from one meeting to the next in search of people and organizations willing to work together.
Can an online marketplace with information about products' social and environmental impacts change the world -- or is it just another way to ease consumer guilt?
The 8/4 Kashgar attack was not a total surprise: The two attackers were linked to the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), three members of which were executed in a nearby town last month.
We need fair trade. And so do Chinese workers and families, who are being abused by this so-called free trade system that benefits only CEOs and major shareholders of global corporations.
