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Day 16 - 75 Days to the end of the Project - Thursday 13th December

Just a quick update today, as we near the holiday season, my Fairtrade Store is busy; this project is also going very well. I am doing some filming next week for the project, as I hope the entire project will be shown as a film sometime next year.

CO2 Report - 34 miles travel by car

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Day 15 - 76 Days to the end of the Project - Wednesday 12th December

I know some of you are waiting for your websites to appear on the home page. Well this will happen in the next week as I have been so busy. I will email everyone to let them know when their site will be up on the website.

CO2 - Report 23 miles travel by car

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Day 14 - 77 Days to the end of the Project - Tuesday 11th December

I plan to visit the States early next year, but when I went for the first time, a few months ago, I had this image of huge cars, gas guzlers, this image came from films from the 60’s and 70’s, however when I got to San Francisco, I was surprised to see quite modest sized vehicles. Very like the UK, and clearly more economic to run, and better for the environment. This project will be partly made up of an environmental project, where I hope to design and build an eco friendly Fairtrade Store using all the latest environmentally friendly ideas.

CO2 - Report 23 miles travel by car

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Day 13 - 78 Days to the end of the Project - Monday 10th December

I am spending today contacting the US by phone. I have had a great response to the Project from companies in the States. I will give you a progress report next Monday.

CO2 Report 12 miles travel be car

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Day 12 - 79 Days to the end of the Project - Saturday 8th December

Well all the Christmas decorations are up here at home and at my Caffe-Society Fairtrade Store. To think it is just over two weeks away and I still have not bought any presents. I am so busy with the project which I plan to work on every day throughout the holiday period apart from Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

CO2 Report - No travel as I worked from home today

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Day 11 - 80 Days to the end of the Project - Friday 7th December

I have been at my Caffe - Society Fair Trade Store today. It’s getting busy, as we get nearer to the Holiday season. At the end of the project I intend to visit the US and I did this year when I went to San Francisco,

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Day 10 - 81 Days to the end of the Project - Thursday 6th December

I have been planning an approach to the National Press here in the UK, in the Europe and the US to promote this project and the businesses that have so far joined me in making this a success. I really feel it will prove successful and I am determined to make this project a talking point for all the right reasons.

CO2 - No travel, worked from home 

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Day 9 - 82 Days to the end of the Project - Wednesday 5th December

With a Catering background I regularly receive my copy of the Caterer Magazine. In a recent edition they describe the Hotel of the Future. This will prove a good resource for my plans to design, develop and build a new eco, Fairtrade store, which is part of this project, again to be filmed and made into a production. I will let you know in detail early next year here on this Blog as how I will develop the ideas that will create an environmentally friendly store.

CO2 Report - 23 miles travel by car today

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Day 8 - 83 Days to the end of the Project - Tuesday 4th December

I got a copy of the Tibet Relief Fund Christmas Gift Book today. Their website is www.enlightenedgifts.org there are some fantastic gifts in there made by Tibetens based in Northern India. They live there in excile. If you look at my homepage I have included some websites that tell more about these great people. I am going to order the Tibetan Cook Book and a mini key ring silk bag. I will give them as gifts to people closest to me, friends and realtives.

CO2 Report - 12 miles travel by car

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Day 7 - 84 Days to the end of the Project - Monday 3rd December

I am busy today making more contacts with potential sponsors. I plan to enter my regular update on my camcorder which will go towards the Film production of this project next year.

CO2 Report 23 miles travel by car

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Day 6 - 85 Days to the end of the Project - Saturday 1st December

I was told today of a First! The first cloa drink made with Fairtrade certified sugar is currently available. Go to www.ubuntu-trading.com for details. Also there is new Organic Ale brewed with Fairtrade certified sugar from Malawi.

Don’t forget to keep reading the Blogs to see how I am doing and take a look at the homepages where I am about to add some more company websites over the next two weeks.

CO2 Report - 12 miles travel by car 

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Day 5 - 86 Days to the end of the Project - Friday 30th November

I can’t believe it, but tomorrow is December, and only three weeks to Christmas and the Holiday Season. The year seems to have gone quickly, however the project continues right through this festive time and on into the New Year. I am now planning to include Saturdays as part of my working week simply to keep up with it all.

CO2 Report - None as I worked from home 

 

 

 

Day 4 - 87 Days to the end of the Project - Thursday 29th November

Over the past year Fairtrade Foundation (UK) Executive Director, Harriet Lamb has been working with Ebury Publishing to write her story of how Fairtrade has got to where it is today. Fighting the Banana Wars and Other Fairtrade Battles (RRP £ 10.99) will be published on 7th February 2008. The book charts the heroic struggle of the early years to get new Fairtrade Products like bananas onto supermarket shelves, and celebrates the success of the Fairtrade Towns network in raising awareness of Fairtrade across the UK, all set against a background of farmers in the field and supermarket executives in the boardroom. Available in all good bookstores…

Re. Millioneurosin90days project, well I have been working late into the evening recently contacting the US. With the time difference, especially on the West Coast. It has been very successful, and to all of those companies waiting for their details to appear on the homepage, this will happen in the next two weeks.

CO2 Report - No mileage, as I worked from home today  

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Day 3 - 88 Days to the end of the Project - Wednesday 28th November

As you may know if you have been reading my Blogs since this project started. I aim to raise as much as possible by the 9th March 2008, with half the funds going to charities that help developing countries, especially those that provide fresh drinking water and sanitation. One such Charity that does a fantastic job is called Find Your Feet. You can see their website on my homepage; this was put on free as are some other sites, simply because I want to help raise the profile of these worthwhile operations. The Charity Find Your Feet produces a regular newsletter called ‘Footprints’. In the autumn edition it talks about Organic Farming. ‘What a difference a year makes’. This time last year, Gladys Kadziwe was facing some difficult decisions. Having suffered an unsuccessful harvest, how was she going to feed her family over the coming months? Without the income from her harvest, would she have to sacrifice buying soap to be able to afford school books? Between December and February every year 90% of households in Phambala, Malawi have no food left from their own farms. Living in Phambala where droughts are common and soil fertility is poor, Gladys has become used to coping with these stark challenges but they never become any easier. This year, 2007, things are different. Smiling broadly, Gladys tells how she has grown enough food to last the whole year. She has even produced a surplus to sell so that she can afford those family essentials. ‘Farming organically means I grow more food, save money and improve the fertility of the soil ‘.

What has made the difference? According to Gladys it is the low cost environmentally-friendly farming practices she has learnt from FYF partner, the Lipangwe Organic Manure Demonstration Farm (LOMADEF).  Gladys has learnt skills like composting, crop diversification, organic pesticide production, seed multiplication and agro-forestry. In an area where farmers struggle to produce enough to feed their families for more than six months, LOMADEF’s agricultural techniques that boost harvests, improve nutrition and rebuild the soil are helping to transform family’s futures.Source’Footprints’

CO2 - Report 22 miles travel by car

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Day 2 - 89 Days to the end of the Project - Tuesday 27th November

One of the websites on the homepage is a company called Imporient. I use this company for my Fair Trade Store, supplying me with my Fairtrade Tea.  Imporient Premium Fairtrade Leaf Tea produces a Strong, Bright, and Golden Tea full of Flavour. Imporient only selects Teas grown at 2000 + meters above sea level. The Temperature at this altitude is relatively low and as a result the tea leaves grow at a slower rate allowing more time for the tea to absorb more nutrients from the soil, sunlight and rain. These ideal climatic conditions are major reasons why Imporient Premium Fairtrade tea has exceptional brightness and flavour. Imporient buys the very best Fairtrade tea helping to ensure that tea estates receive a good price for their tea. TheFairtrade premium is invested in community development projects chosen by the farmers and workers. The farmers and workers decide how to invest this additional money in their local community, on education, clean water supplies, health care and other vital facilities. Tea Myths and Facts : Myth : Tea is dehydrating, Fact : Tea is dehydrating, not dehydrating, in fact due to the volume of fluid that is drunk whilst enjoying a ‘cuppa’, the British Dietetic Association advises that tea can contribute to the daily - recommended intake of 1.5 to 2 litres of water.

CO2 - Report 21 miles travel by car

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Day 1 - 90 Days to the end of the Project - Mon 26th November

Here we go the very final part of this project connected to the fund rising. I aim to raise 1 MILLION EUROS, that’s £700 000 or $1.5 Dollars in just 90 DAYS, excluding Sundays. The finish date is Saturday 9th March 2008. That’s the last day of the UKs Fairtrade Weekend Promotion period for 2008. Also it will be one year since I started this project by raising funds. I will add this amount to the I Million Euros at the end of the project. I hope to have risen allot of money for these causes.  I plan to have a big celebration in London on the last day. Lots of publicity for Fairtrade and your websites. Help me to achieve this goal by supporting my project. Let me add your website to the projects home page. I will be entering my daily Blog every single day to keep you all up to date as to how I am doing.  I will also record the total miles in various travel by car train plane ferry etc then I will offset at the end of the project.

CO2 Report - 23 miles travel by car

A Lady working in the fields of Africa growing her crops. Some of these are Fairtrade which I want to support. I aim to donate half the funds raised to projects in developing countries including the supply of fresh drinking water and sanitation. 

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