<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Grass Routes &#187; Fair Trade</title>
	<atom:link href="http://grass-routes.org/blog/fair-trade-blog/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://grass-routes.org</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:55:07 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator>
		<item>
		<title>Frithjof Bergmann on the VISION SUMMIT 2008: Financial Crisis is Just a Cover Up of Rising Poverty</title>
		<link>http://grass-routes.org/blog/financial-crisis-is-just-a-cover-up-of-rising-poverty.html</link>
		<comments>http://grass-routes.org/blog/financial-crisis-is-just-a-cover-up-of-rising-poverty.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frans Prins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Berlin & Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consume]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[entrepreneurship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vision summit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yunnus]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://grass-routes.org/?p=879</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just jumped into a workshop at the Vision Summit with Professor Frithjof Bergmann, founder of New Work. He starts his talk with a strong statement: &#8220;the financial crisis is used to cover up what hides behind the curtains. But he believes, it is not hard to look behind the scenes and see what hides [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://grass-routes.org/blog/financial-crisis-is-just-a-cover-up-of-rising-poverty.html/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Live from the VISION SUMMIT 2008 in Berlin</title>
		<link>http://grass-routes.org/blog/berlin-blog/live-from-the-vision-summit-in-berlin.html</link>
		<comments>http://grass-routes.org/blog/berlin-blog/live-from-the-vision-summit-in-berlin.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frans Prins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Berlin & Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berlin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor & Fair Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social Pioneers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://grass-routes.org/?p=876</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just freshly arrived with Noel from Karmakonsum at the Vision Summit conference on Social Business in Berlin. In the first speech, professor Werner, founder of the drugstore DM, makes a strong note for a basic income for everyone. This will stimulate a new kind of economy. Everyone who did not yet get warm for this [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://grass-routes.org/blog/berlin-blog/live-from-the-vision-summit-in-berlin.html/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Fair Trade Week in Germany</title>
		<link>http://grass-routes.org/blog/fair-trade-week-in-germany.html</link>
		<comments>http://grass-routes.org/blog/fair-trade-week-in-germany.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frans Prins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fair fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor & Fair Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parties]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://grass-routes.org/?p=482</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From next week, it&#8217;s Faire Woche (Fair Trade Weeks) in Germany. All over the country there are local events to promote fair traded products, and the events go from local charity groups that do an action, to lectures and festivals. In Hamburg there will be a podium discussion on Responsibility in Fashion with Alexandra Perschau [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://grass-routes.org/blog/fair-trade-week-in-germany.html/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Fashion Designers join Fair Wear Foundation collectively</title>
		<link>http://grass-routes.org/blog/fashion-designers-join-fair-wear-foundation-collectively.html</link>
		<comments>http://grass-routes.org/blog/fashion-designers-join-fair-wear-foundation-collectively.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frans Prins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CSR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethical fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor & Fair Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NGO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://grass-routes.org/?p=404</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Elsewear, a Dutch initiative that promotes green fashion, organizes a joined membership of the Fair Wear Foundation for designers and smaller brands. On the 4th of September, during a meeting on Green Profit, the two organizations will sign a contract that the Fair Wear Foundation will engage itself supporting and controlling the brands and designers [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://grass-routes.org/blog/fashion-designers-join-fair-wear-foundation-collectively.html/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>New Report by Clean Clothes Campaign: Sportswear Brands Still Violate Workers Rights</title>
		<link>http://grass-routes.org/blog/new-report-by-clean-clothes-campaign-sportswear-brands-still-violate-workers-rights.html</link>
		<comments>http://grass-routes.org/blog/new-report-by-clean-clothes-campaign-sportswear-brands-still-violate-workers-rights.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frans Prins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor & Fair Trade]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://grass-routes.org/?p=130</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Unlike all new attems of companies like Adidas to become a &#8220;responsible&#8221; company, a new report by the Clean Clothes Campaign, published today, states that in the sports wear industry the situation is still inhuman. The CCC report shows that the addressed companies have gained enormous profit growth during the past few years. The profit [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://grass-routes.org/blog/new-report-by-clean-clothes-campaign-sportswear-brands-still-violate-workers-rights.html/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Beijing 2008: Catch the Olympic Flame for Labour Rights</title>
		<link>http://grass-routes.org/blog/beijing-2008-catch-the-olympic-flame-for-labour-rights.html</link>
		<comments>http://grass-routes.org/blog/beijing-2008-catch-the-olympic-flame-for-labour-rights.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frans Prins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Trade]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://grass-routes.org/?p=111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[These Olympic games are all about politics. It is both a great chance for action groups to get their topic on the agenda, and for the Chinese government to use the Games as one big PR event. And they go far for that, putting down a asfalt road straigt through the Himalayas just to get [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://grass-routes.org/blog/beijing-2008-catch-the-olympic-flame-for-labour-rights.html/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Womens Day &amp; the Garment Industry: it&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Sweat on Your Shirt</title>
		<link>http://grass-routes.org/blog/womens-day-the-garment-industry-its-womens-sweat-on-your-shirt.html</link>
		<comments>http://grass-routes.org/blog/womens-day-the-garment-industry-its-womens-sweat-on-your-shirt.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frans Prins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor & Fair Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sweatshops]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://grass-routes.org/?p=96</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[About a billion people (!) are working in textile related industries worldwide. Many of them are women, working from home, in slum situated sweatshops or high tech factories. As known, the circumstances are not always that funky. Without drawing to all the rights, justice or sexism issues of the women&#8217;s right movement, just think about [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://grass-routes.org/blog/womens-day-the-garment-industry-its-womens-sweat-on-your-shirt.html/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>&quot;The Children Behind Our Cotton&quot; &#8211; Report on Child Labour by the Environmental Justice Foundation</title>
		<link>http://grass-routes.org/blog/the-children-behind-our-cotton-report-on-child-labour-by-the-environmental-justice-foundation.html</link>
		<comments>http://grass-routes.org/blog/the-children-behind-our-cotton-report-on-child-labour-by-the-environmental-justice-foundation.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frans Prins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clothing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labour rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organic cotton]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://grass-routes.org/?p=72</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With all the positive news about new ethical fashion trends, one sometimes forgets to also stay aware about the negative sides of clothing production. In December the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) published a new report on child labour in the clothing industry, focusing on cotton production. According to the report, six of the world’s top [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://grass-routes.org/blog/the-children-behind-our-cotton-report-on-child-labour-by-the-environmental-justice-foundation.html/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

