Exploring the campaigning dimension of the Festival, shining a light on issues of injustice. We talk to the cocoa growers of Ghana, whose cocoa is used to make the heavenly Divine chocolate. We hear from Harriet Lamb, the Head of the Fairtrade Foundation on what she thinks of Greenbelt’s stance on issues of trade justice. [...]

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This is the question we've been asking in the office today.  Fairtrade Fortnight starts today, so we thought we'd list a few of our favourite things and ask readers to add their own.  Most of ours seem to be food items – I wonder what that says about us?!
Commercial Manager Phil starts us off, opting [...]

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A quick snapshot of forty-eight hours in the life of Greenbelt's Commercial Manager…
On Thursday it was a trip to Bristol to meet Colin Blake to try and persuade him to lead the recorded talks team. Turns out it only cost me a Pepsi and a school-dinner style sausage, chips and beans… bargain!
Colin's story made me [...]

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Facebook, Flickr, Last.fm, Twitter… you name it, I'm on it. And I love it!
Over the last few years we've experienced a sea change in our relationship with the web. We are no longer just passive observers reading and digesting content chosen for us by 'webmasters'. Today, WE make the content. WE are the web.
And this [...]

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Tonight at the London School of Economics, Harriet Lamb, Executive Director of the Fairtrade Foundation will be speaking about her latest book, Fighting the Banana Wars.  In 2007 Harriet was voted the second most influential eco foodie in the UK after Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in the Observer Food Monthly magazine.  Her new book details her travels [...]

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It's a quiet going-out week in the Greenbelt office.  Matt and I are both at gigs tonight, but it's a week full of nights in for the rest of the team.  Matt's going to see The Tintins at The Water Rats in Kings Cross – Beatles, Blur and Simon & Garfunkel-inspired folk-pop, according to their [...]

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… then don't miss it on More 4, tomorrow night (Tuesday 3rd February, 10:00 PM).
It's an eye-opening expose of the multi-billion dollar coffee industry and traces one man's fight for a fair price. Well worth a watch- especially if you don't buy Fairtrade coffee or do buy it, but aren't sure why!
More 4 have set [...]

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