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Melanie Favreau took the little plastic things that keep your bread loafs closed and turned them into sterling silver pieces of jewelry she calls Milk & Bread.
Available as either a ring or a necklace, Milk & Bread are from her appropriately named “Supermarket” store, and can be customized with any text that you’d like.
[Melanie Favreau - Supermarket - Milk & Bread Rings]
[Melanie Favreau - Supermarket - Milk & Bread Necklace]
[Via: Reuben Miller]
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Black Gold is “a story about coffee and trade”.
But while we continue to pay for our lattes and cappuccinos, the price paid to coffee farmers remains so low that many have been forced to abandon their coffee fields.
Nowhere is this paradox more evident than in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. Tadesse Meskela is one man on a mission to save his 74,000 struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy. As his farmers strive to harvest some of the highest quality coffee beans on the international market, Tadesse travels the world in an attempt to find buyers willing to pay a fair price.
Against the backdrop of Tadesse’s journey to London and Seattle, the enormous power of the multinational players that dominate the world’s coffee trade becomes apparent. New York commodity traders, the international coffee exchanges, and the double dealings of trade ministers at the World Trade Organization reveal the many challenges Tadesse faces in his quest for a long term solution for his farmers.
It looks like a fascinating film, and definitely brings light to an issue that few Americans consider while waiting in line at the local Starbucks.
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