Weather: going to extremes
(July 19, 2012)This post is now out of date, and is replaced by the page Weather: going to extremes
Tag: Change the world
A small victory in the fight against child slavery
(July 18, 2012)There has been a long campaign for chocolate companies to only source their cocoa from farms that don’t use trafficked child labour, and who pay the workers a fair wage. And progress has been slow. I have previously reported how I have joined many others in writing to chocolate companies here in Australia asking them […]
The heat is on!
(July 14, 2012)This page is now out of date. Please go to Is the world really heating up? for up-to-date information.
Who's afraid of climate change?
(July 12, 2012)I have blogged on climate change before – see Climate change and christians and Christians and climate change. Almost another year has passed and new information is now available. It’s time to review. Over the next couple of weeks I’ll look at the evidence, the causes and the effects. Most importantly, I’ll be looking at […]
1 billion hungry: the global food crisis
(June 26, 2012)Almost one billion people, an eighth of the world’s population, are hungry as you read this. Why?
Ethical chocolate update
(May 16, 2012)I have previously reported on the ethical dilemmas posed by eating chocolate, due to the trafficking and exploitation of children in growing cocoa in West Africa (see My pleasure, their misery? and Easter eggs and slavery), and on the responses to my letters to chocolate manufacturers (see Fair Trade chocolate – report 1). I have […]
Easter eggs and slavery
(March 15, 2012)Easter’s coming soon, and if you live in the west as I do, you’ll probably be eating your share of easter eggs. But what if the eggs came from cocoa grown using child labour, that is effectively slave labour?
Urban Neighbours of Hope
(February 11, 2012)I met Jon Owen at the Black Stump music festival. Over three days I listened to his stories and was impressed. I laughed a lot, but had the odd tear as well. Jon and his wife Lisa live in one of Sydney’s most depressed suburbs as part of a community supported by Urban Neighbours of […]
Fair Trade chocolate – report 2
(December 22, 2011)Back in November I reported on exploitation in the world cocoa trade in My pleasure, their misery?. At that time I wrote about this to two prominent chocolate manufacturers. I subsequently reported (Fair Trade chocolate – report 2) that I had received a reply from Cadbury indicating their ongoing support for Fair Trade products. I […]
Fair Trade chocolate – report 1
(December 9, 2011)A couple of weeks ago, I outlined some facts about exploitation in the growing of cocoa for chocolate (see My pleasure, their misery?) and at the same time wrote to two prominent chocolate manufacturers expressing my concerns and asking them to make more concerted moves to only source cocoa from growers who were paid a […]