Paul Rice
Paul Rice
Paul Rice is the President & CEO of Fair Trade USA, the leading third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States. Since launching Fair Trade USAin 1998, Paul has pushed to mainstream the Fair Trade movement and expand its impact. He has challenged hundreds of companies to rework their global supply chains to obtain high-quality products that support community development and environmental protection...
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It was mayhem, and my mom was always laughing and loving it. She never got tired of hearing the noise of kids. Ever.
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It would make more sense to make the entire road noncommercial. We don't want to be the only property owners that can't do much with their land.
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She always encouraged her kids to do whatever they wanted.
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We have had a few reports of different types of lasers -- the light entering the cockpit -- whether that has been from a terrorist group or from other groups we are not sure but that's the investigation we are doing.
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If it sells well, our hope is McDonald's will embrace this across their entire system and all 13,000 stores will convert to Fair Trade in the next year or two. With McDonald's, I think that sends a very powerful signal to the entire industry. Fair Trade is here to stay and mainstream Americans are concerned with fairness and they are willing to buy it.
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In the last five years, sales of Fair Trade coffee have grown from 1 million pounds to 18.5 million pounds.
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Honestly, I was a little nervous just because it was the first game. I had the jitters before the game, but once I get out there and get my hands on the ball, I feel totally at home. I feel like I can be a dangerous player.
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Fair Trade is a market-based, entrepreneurial response to business as usual: it helps third-word farmers developing direct market access as well as the organizational and management capacity to add value to their products and take them directly to the global market. Direct trade, a fair price, access to capital and local capacity-building, which are the core strategies of this model, have been successfully building farmers' incomes and self-reliance for more than 50 years.
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By all means, let us simplify the means of controlling time and the myriad details of our lives, but let us vigorously preserve our responsibility to direct our lives toward human accomplishment, rather than the pure accumulation of information.
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I saw people rise out of poverty right in front of me. ... It made me believe that the market was the most powerful tool for change that we could hope to have.
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Fair Trade is all about improving lives, but we don't do that through charity - there is no hand out in the Fair Trade movement. People are solving their own problems through Fair Trade.