tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14019702527258189852011-04-21T19:58:31.186-07:00Ruminations on fair trade, organic food, corporate social responsiblity and alternative dispute resolution. Enjoy!Birdiewaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01397852538668302737noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1401970252725818985.post-55147952477793769092007-11-11T09:48:00.000-08:002007-11-11T09:50:33.874-08:00Supply chains gone awry in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/world/middleeast/11weapons.html?hp">Iraq</a>...Thanks NY Times<br /><br /><blockquote>“This was the craziest thing in the world,” said John Tisdale, a retired<br />Air Force master sergeant who managed an adjacent warehouse. “They were taking<br />weapons away by the truckload.”<br />Activities at that armory and other<br />warehouses help explain how the American military lost track of some 190,000<br />pistols and automatic rifles supplied by the United States to Iraq’s security<br />forces in 2004 and 2005, as auditors discovered in the past year.<br /></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1401970252725818985-5514795247779376909?l=paynadinesosap.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Birdiewaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01397852538668302737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1401970252725818985.post-41610501020602133382007-11-11T09:32:00.000-08:002007-11-11T09:38:07.517-08:00Travel can be a blast and teach many things about how people live and how they interact.<br /><br />France is way ahead of N. America on organic and fair trade practices. A leading fair trade company, <a href="http://www.altereco.com/">Alter Eco,</a> has more products than Transfair USA or Transfair Canada even licence. Europe benefits from alternative certification bodies like the Institute of Marketecology (IMO). For a comparison of the standards see this <a href="http://fungreenfair.com/content/view/20/28/">fair trade comparison</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1401970252725818985-4161050102060213338?l=paynadinesosap.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Birdiewaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01397852538668302737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1401970252725818985.post-52631483016525209942007-11-11T08:25:00.000-08:002007-11-11T08:28:19.562-08:00Here is a great blog that <a href="http://mitbrown.blogspot.com/">inspired me</a>!<br /><br />I love <a href="http://www.fungreenfair.com/">food especially when it's fair</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1401970252725818985-5263148301652520994?l=paynadinesosap.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Birdiewaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01397852538668302737noreply@blogger.com0