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Principles, ventures, pioneers... Sentido offers you a listing of ideas, ventures and pioneers working to bring fair trade standards and ethical and legal human rights principles to international commerce

GRAMEEN BANK, FOUNDER YUNUS WIN NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
MICRO-CREDIT PIONEERS HONORED FOR WORK TO END POVERTY
13 October 2006

Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi economist and entrepreneur who founded the Grameen Bank to give micro-credit loans to poor small-business owners, has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Yunus shares the prize with the bank he founded, the award given for the bank's efforts to help eradicate endemic poverty among large populations through individual financing. [Full Story]

Principles :: Fair Trade is a label applied formally to products and services which meet standards put forth by the Fairtrade Foundation... :: Particular Fairtrade criteria are assigned to small or larger growers, in order to ensure locals and workers receive fair compensation for their work. :: Sentido views principles of fair pricing, limited subsidies for highly profitable businesses, as related to the fair trade model, and will report these.

Pioneers R. Adams & Traidcraft :: This year's New Statesman "Upstarts Award", UK's largest Fairtrade Org. Global Exchange :: Human rights org. founded in 1988 to promote fair trade in the global economy...

Ventures PuraVida Coffee :: Seattle-based org. working to bring fairtrade coffee to widest possible market... PaxWorld Funds :: "Responsible investing" alternative, allowing investors to put money into mutual funds that target socially responsible enterprises... Click Here for More...

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GOOGLE TO COLLABORATE IN CENSORING INFORMATION DELIVERED TO CHINESE USERS
27 January 2006

The premier internet search engine Google has launched a new Chinese service, under the domain Google.cn, which it will voluntarily censor in keeping with the mandates of Chinese authorities. The announcement came earlier this week, as the Davos trade talks opened and on the same day as China's government announced it was ordering the closing of a weekly newspaper known for publishing articles on topics the Chinese Communist party's propaganda office had banned or which included criticism of government policy. [Full Story]

WORLD DEMANDS RENEWABLE RESOURCES AT BONN
31 May 2004

The Renewables 2004 global conference in Bonn, Germany, has resulted in recommendations for more aggressive research and development of renewable energy resources. Citing persistent unrest in oil rich countries, the negative environmental impact of fossil fuels, along with soaring prices and the economic problems associated with any finite resource, the conference noted the benefits to economic and political security of using resources that are local, clean and renewable. [Full Story]