ifPeople Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 9, November 2005

ifPeople Newsletter (Spanish)
November 2005 (Vol. 2, No. 9)

Dear friends,

Greetings for all! Hope you all had a nice Halloween and a great Fair Trade Month (October)! In this edition, we bring you information about alternative way of conceiving trade and business relations with Fair Trade and further inform you about our effort to apply Fair Trade to trade in services through the FairSource model. Also, please check out the great events going on around the country and our update on the Bioneers Southeast Forum from this past weekend. As usual, we invite your comments and suggestions on how to improve this communication tool.

Best wishes,
Chris and Tirza
ifPeople co-founders

Bioneers Southeast Forum Update
ifPeople was proud to sponsor the Bionees Southeast Forum in Atlanta, which happened October 28-30. Three days of inspiring talks, engaging sessions, and social activities to strengthen the community and local collaboration around solutions to challenges facing the region. The event concluded by lives on through the activities of the Bioneers community and Inspiring Futures, the co-host of the event.
http://www.ifpeople.net/community/news/20051102_bio

Sustainable Business and Economy Activities in San Francisco
This week features a number of events to strengthen the sustainable businesses and economies that are developing around the country and world. If you are interested in solutions for business or starting your own sustainable business, please join ifPeople's Tirza Hollenhorst at the Coop America Green Business Conference and  the Coop America/Global Exchange Green Festival in San Francisco.
http://www.ifpeople.net/community/news/20051102_gf

Plone Foundation Releases Plone 2.1
Houston – The Plone Foundation recently released the 2.1 version of Plone, the leading Content Management System for the award-winning Zope application server. Supported by thousands of developers from around the world, it is one of the most sophisticated, popular, and easy-to-use content management systems available today.
http://www.ifpeople.net/community/news/20051031_plonepr

October: Fair Trade Month
During the entire month of October 2005, different events and activities will take place in 7 US cities. Fair Trade, a responsible equitable approach to trade relationships is generally portrayed as an alternative to the economic and social gap produced and reproduced by current business and commercial models. At present, a great number of retail products carry the Fair Trade Certified label. Drawing inspiration from this movement, ifPeople proposes to apply these values and principles to trade in services and puts forward its FairSource model as an effective tool to achieve this aim. Read More http://www.ifpeople.net/community/news/20052710_ftm

Featured events:

*Business for Social Responsibility Conference November 1 – 4, Washington, DC

* USGBC GreenBuild November 9 – 11 World Congress Center, Atlanta

*Electronics Recycling and Collection October 8, Atlanta, GA (contact ifPeople if you are coming to get together!)

*13th Annual Net Impact Conference November 10 – 13, Palo Alto, CA

*Embracing Interdependence: Effective and Responsible Action in Our Organizations and the World November 14 – 16, Hyatt Regency, San Francisco


For more events information, see
http://www.ifpeople.net/community/news/events

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