Our school has a number of events coming up in the next few weeks:
Saturday May 9th
Coffee morning
St. Stephen’s Church, High Street, Exeter, 10 – 12.30
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Saturday May 16th – May Fayre
11-4pm
Maypole dancing, stalls, children’s activities, organic cafe
If you would like more details, do look at the Exeter Steiner School website
A report published last month to coincide with Fairtrade Fortnight shows that sales of Fairtrade products rose by 43% in 2008 to reach the £700 mark.
This is fantastic news and shows just how important the ethical market has become to UK consumers.
You can find out more about the Fairtrade Mark at their website – http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/
National Veggie week is happening 18-24 May this year and the Vegetarian Society are offering community groups, schools and clubs a whole range of free tools including posters, booklets and banners.
If you would like to take part, visit their site.
We have just taken delivery of the fantastic new colours for this season from Calin Bleu baby slings.
The Baby wraps are also extremely versatile: you can use the same baby sling as a front carrier, to pop baby on your hip, or as a baby carrier backpack. The same baby sling fits tall and small parents too, allowing parents of different sizes to use the same baby wrap. The classic colours will suit both mums and dads.
New for this season are slings in Tempting Green, Amazing Amber and Nicely Red
Here at The Natural Nursery we try lots of little ways to be eco-friendly – they all add up in the end.
One of these ways is to keep a very close eye on our packaging and the way we send parcels out to our customers.
We appreciate that you want your goods to arrive in a beautiful condition (we want that too) but on the other hand, you don’t want vast quantities of packaging to clog up your bin and then your local land fill site.
That is why we reuse as much packaging as we can – lots of our parcels go out in reused boxes and we reuse any packing materials our delieveries come in.
When we have to buy new packing materials, we try to make them as environmentally friendly as possible. We use bio-degradable bubble wrap and recycled cardboard to parcel up delicate items, our mailing sacks are made out of recycled or biodegradable plastics and the paper we print our delivery notes on is made from trees from sustainable forests and is 100% biodegradable – even the glue that sticks the label on the front of the parcel!
So does this all cost The Natural Nursery more? Well, yes it does. We charge what we think are fair postage and packing costs and absorb the extra ourselves.
We want you to get your goodies in perfect condition but we don’t want that to have a negative impact on the enviroment, so we are happy to pay a little bit extra to make this happen.
Two billion people – a third of humanity – still survive on less than $2 a day. Unfair trade rules keep them in poverty, but they face the global challenges of food shortages and climate change too. Fairtrade is a people’s movement for change that aims to tip the balance of trade in favour of poor producers. We all need Fairtrade more than ever and we all have the power to create positive change for people and planet.
Make it happen. Choose Fairtrade.
Take part in Fairtrade Fortnight 2009 and play your part by joining a powerful global movement for change!
See http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/get_involved/fairtrade_fortnight/fairtrade_fortnight_2009/default.aspx for more information, download action guides and go bananas eating fairtrade products.
Time – 10.30 – 12.30, 14th Feb
Place – St Stephens Church, High Street, Exeter
Come and join us for a cup of coffee, home made cakes and Valentine’s crafts
http://www.exetersteinerschool.com/events.html
The Trees Have Rights Too campaign was introduced to the United Nations by Polly Higgins, on 6th November at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, in a bid to encourage this uniquely placed organisation to put in place the necessary steps to achieving this Universal Declaration.
Find out more at http://www.treeshaverightstoo.com/
or join the facebook group – http://www.facebook.com/reqs.phpfriend#/group.php?gid=37447704639&ref=mf
A great way to source local, fair trade and organic fruit and veg – the easy way to eat healthy, organic, natural, chemical free foods.
A great list of local schemes can be found at Allthingseco – http://www.allthingseco.co.uk/directoryresults.php?category_id=54
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