“Do Good” Challenge: Rainforest Alliance/Fair Trade Chocolate

September 18, 2009 Posted by The Hens

Chocolate Do Good Challenge

Hooray for free chocolate from Mars. Now you can help Mars do even more in this week’s “Do Good” Challenge. Mars is making a big commitment to sustainably harvested cocoa for their chocolates. They recently contracted their first batch of sustainably harvested cocoa beans certified by UTZ. Similar to other sustainable certifications, UTZ “helps coffee growers to be more professional and competitive in production and selling, and it enables coffee brands to incorporate and credibly demonstrate responsibility in their entire product range,” according to the company’s website. Mars also plans to source cocoa for all of its products from sustainably harvested farms by 2020. In addition to working with UTZ Certified cocoa, Mars announced it will source some of its cocoa from suppliers that bear the Rainforest Alliance Certification symbol, which also certifies agricultural crops grown in an environmentally friendly manner.

So how can you help?

Head over to the Rainforest Alliance website and support their work through membership, donations, endowments, corporate sponsorship, or cause marketing. And gere’s you’re challenge for everyday starting today: Think about the products you eat and purchase and support those that are grown and harvested in sustainable ways. And look for the Rainforest Alliance Certified, Fair Trade Certified, or UTZ Certified seals on your future purchases.  Please get involved and “Do Good” today.

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    Ben Daniels says:

    September 18th, 2009

    Thank you for supporting Fair Trade initiatives and helping to get the word out about the goodness of these types of programs. I believe that Fair Trade helps to promote real socially and economically responsible business and that’s something our world can use more of. Keep up the great job. I’m looking forward to seeing more of you Do Good challenges in the future.

    Also, if you’re interested, please visit http://www.globalexchangestore.org. It’s a Fair Trade online store. I shop there frequently.

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    RnfrstAlliance says:

    September 18th, 2009

    RT @ChrisSpagnuolo “Do Good” today: Support Rainforest Alliance/Fair Trade Chocolate. It’s easier than you think http://bit.ly/15Cg7f

    This comment was originally posted on Twitter

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