The Chocolate Fudge Cafe

About the Recycle Revival:

Greater Good Productions, together with WECT, are proud to announce the first annual GREATER WILMINGTON RECYCLE REVIVAL!

This celebration of everything 2nd hand, recycled, and environmentally friendly will showcase area organizations, businesses, artists and farmers that contribute to an overall healthy and sustainable community. It will feature a community yard sale, artists and crafters that work in recycled or earth friendly materials, a farmer’s market sneak preview, locally made products and food, music, “green living” businesses, 2nd hand fashions, and more. Proceeds from this event will benefit the Cape Fear River Watch, PenderWatch, and the North Carolina Coastal Federation and their efforts to keep Southeastern North Carolina clean, healthy and beautiful.

GREEN LIVING SHOWCASE

More and more people are realizing the importance of living green. Whether its through buying local, using less toxic chemicals, or simply recycling, people are making an effort to reduce their carbon footprint and make our planet more healthy. This is what the Recycle Revival is all about - reusing, reducing, and doing what’s right for our planet Earth. We at GGP feel that the “green” trend is probably the most beneficial trend to ever impact our culture, so much in fact, that we hope its not a trend, but a planetary movement towards a better way of life. 

For more info about this event: http://greatergoodwilmington.wordpress.com/upcomingevents/rr/

Equadorean Protestors in Lago Agrio near the Columbian border

Cacao pods on trees

  Did you know that some of  the best chocolate comes from Equador?  Small family farmers are growing some of the best cacao in the world and the chocolate from those trees is delicious!  It is pure, organic and fair trade without the “greed energy” of some of the other cacao growing regions.

   This is why we must do all we can to protect the Equadorean rainforest and its farmers.  One way is to get Chevron to clean up its mess from an oil spill by Texaco.   The plaintiffs in a huge lawsuit in the Ecuadorean oil boom town of Lago Agrio, located just across the border from Colombia, allege that Texaco, which operated in Ecuador from 1964 to 1990 and was acquired by Chevron in 2001, poisoned their lands, rivers and ground water with toxic chemicals.

http://mobile.globalpost.com/dispatch/the-americas/090429/chevron-ecuador

If you interested in signing a petition regarding this issue:

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/chevron_ecuador/

There is also activity in Tena and the Kallari, where Ivanhoe, a Canadian oil company, has leased rights from the Ecuadorian government to prospect for oil. The form of oil that is found in the area does not lend itself to conventional drilling, instead, a form of strip mining must be used. Naturally, the consequences of unrestrained exploitation of oil in the region could be devastating not only to Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, but to large amounts of acreage planted in cacao, and to many members of the Kallari community. One only has to visit the town of Coca to see the potential for problems.  Keep updated:  http://www.thechocolatelife.com/group/tenadiaries