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Grow Ahead: New Crowdfunding Platform to Support Small Farmers

May 10, 2017 by Ryan Zinn

Small farmers are on the front lines of the global climate and hunger crisis. Despite the fact that small farmers feed the majority of the world on just ¼ of farmland, small farmers face an unfair marketplace, displacement and disenfranchisement. Dr. Bronner’s fair trade partner, Fair World Project is launching Grow Ahead, a new crowdfunding platform to support and stand in solidarity with small farmers around the world as they address the challenges of climate change in their communities.

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Standing with Immigrants and Refugees

January 30, 2017 by Michael Bronner

Dr. Bronner’s was founded in the U.S. by Emanuel Bronner who, after losing his parents in the Holocaust, promoted a message of love and unity, not hate and revenge. In what he would call the “Moral ABC,” Emanuel urged us to realize our unity across religious & ethnic divides or perish: “We are All-One or None!” For Dr.

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We All Have a Role: Five Lessons for Organizing Emerge from a Berry Farm

January 12, 2017 by Kerstin Lindgren

One of the most significant highlights of 2016, for me, was the phone call I received the night before Labor Day to inform me that Familias Unidas por la Justicia and Sakuma Brothers Farm had signed a legally binding agreement outlining how the two parties would settle a four-year-long labor dispute on Sakuma Brothers’ berry farm in Washington State.

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Serendipalm: More Than Fair Trade

November 29, 2016 by Rafi Loiederman

Serendipalm is our sister company in Ghana that supplies us with fair trade & organic palm oil for our soaps. We recently caught up with Safianu Moro, who heads up the team at Serendipalm as Managing Director to learn more about his work there and his vision for the project’s future. How did you come to work at Serendipalm?

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How This Whole Crazy Trip Started

November 06, 2016 by David Bronner

Dr. Emanuel (or Emil) Bronner was a third-generation master soapmaker born into a German-Jewish soapmaking family that had been making soap since 1858. By the turn of the century the family enterprise had expanded to three factories, the largest of which was in Heilbronn, where Dr. Bronner was born in 1909. He was trained in the guild system of the time and received a degree in chemistry.

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In all we do, let us be generous, fair & loving to Spaceship Earth and all its inhabitants. For we're All-One or None! ALL-ONE!