by Nicole Dennis Shapna is no ordinary business. It’s not run by power and money hungry business men who live in luxury while their employees remain impoverished. It doesn’t produce a cheap product at the cost of irreversible environmental degradation. Shapna is an initiative to empower marginalized farmers in Bangladesh, Uganda, and the Dominican Republic, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘community’
Shapna Coffee and Tea: A New Business Model
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coffee, community, organic, tea on March 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Food = Community
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Campus Kitchens Project, community, food, local, organic on April 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
By Elizabeth Whitehurst During my senior year in college, I worked part-time at a locally-owned health food store, ringing up organic herbs and agave nectar, stocking kombucha tea and fair trade energy drinks. Gary, who tended fields when he left work, taught me the best way to chop an onion. Afternoons when business was slow became [...]
