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Areas of Focus
Indigenous Lands
(1196 people) | Fair Trade
(2529 people) | Culture and Sustainability
(2693 people) | Sustainable Energy Development
(3865 people) | Microcredit
(1282 people) | Community Enterprise
(1844 people) | Social Entrepreneurship
(3646 people) | Natural Capitalism
(2453 people) | Cultural Diversity
(2539 people) | Consumption and Green Consumers
(2197 people) | Social Development
(1962 people) | Ecolabeling and Certification
(1237 people) | Sustainable Communities
(4048 people) | Biodiversity Conservation
(3143 people) | Rural Development
(1486 people) | Indigenous Peoples and Cultures
(2768 people) | Climate Change
(4691 people) | Microfinance
(1321 people) | Socially Responsible Investment
(2740 people)
About
I am a world citizen, born in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, lived the first 10 years of my life in Paraguay, finished undergrad at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (Brazil), came to University of Pennsylvania to research about the Brazilian and Chinese economic relationship and I am currently running my own social venture in the United States, bringing fair trade handcrafts from Brazil (www.bazaarbrazil.net).
Having Chinese parents who migrated from Taiwan to South America, I feel very privileged to have been raised in two cultures simultaneously (Confucian and Latin). For the last five years, I have been inserted in the Anglo-Saxon mindset.
What it is considered to be normal and expected from my parents is different from my social circle and vice-versa. I became good at listening and bridging similarities and also differences. I remain curious about life and feel motivated when I am challenging the system and innovating.
I have been exploring some new areas besides fair trade and retail:
- working as a catalyst for organizations I deeply support: Kaninde, Instituto Meio, Comissão Pró Índio, for its activism and compromise in income generation and indigenous right protection
- structuring an innovative and responsible tourism model to Brazil, to show the world a different meaning to life
- researching and gathering resources to generate a platform for dialogue around supply chain of fair trade goods around the world. Bazaar Brazil has been a case study to understanding what works and what what needs to be transformed.
The highlight of the past three years has been the profound relationships and many new ideas I came across. In November 2006, I visited the tribe Paiter Surui in the northwest of the Amazon Rainforest, who are struggling to protect their culture and environment - an experience that will always remind me why I love so much being part of the solution.
I believe in a holistic and collaborative approach to anything we are creating and challenging. The way I have been approaching sustainability is that if we foster economically sound solutions, the communities, philanthropists, investors and individuals will come together.
I have been myself in a exploratory, start-up and social innovation mode – and I will keep on pushing the boundaries.
My request to you is to keep on believing on the bold vision each of us carry, and together we will see a wiser world.
Having Chinese parents who migrated from Taiwan to South America, I feel very privileged to have been raised in two cultures simultaneously (Confucian and Latin). For the last five years, I have been inserted in the Anglo-Saxon mindset.
What it is considered to be normal and expected from my parents is different from my social circle and vice-versa. I became good at listening and bridging similarities and also differences. I remain curious about life and feel motivated when I am challenging the system and innovating.
I have been exploring some new areas besides fair trade and retail:
- working as a catalyst for organizations I deeply support: Kaninde, Instituto Meio, Comissão Pró Índio, for its activism and compromise in income generation and indigenous right protection
- structuring an innovative and responsible tourism model to Brazil, to show the world a different meaning to life
- researching and gathering resources to generate a platform for dialogue around supply chain of fair trade goods around the world. Bazaar Brazil has been a case study to understanding what works and what what needs to be transformed.
The highlight of the past three years has been the profound relationships and many new ideas I came across. In November 2006, I visited the tribe Paiter Surui in the northwest of the Amazon Rainforest, who are struggling to protect their culture and environment - an experience that will always remind me why I love so much being part of the solution.
I believe in a holistic and collaborative approach to anything we are creating and challenging. The way I have been approaching sustainability is that if we foster economically sound solutions, the communities, philanthropists, investors and individuals will come together.
I have been myself in a exploratory, start-up and social innovation mode – and I will keep on pushing the boundaries.
My request to you is to keep on believing on the bold vision each of us carry, and together we will see a wiser world.
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Hi Bedy, On the 15th October 2008 the World Fair Trade Organization was born, with an agenda to provide a solution to poverty, climate change and financial crisis with the creation of the Sustainable Economy. To support this concept the WFTO will deliver the SFTMS (Sustainable Fair Trade Management System) a new tool with the potential to turn any organization into a 100% Fair Trading business with Enivironmental sustainablity at its heart.The SFTMS is likely to become known as the FT100. Hopefully this innovation is big enough to revitalize the Fair Trade movement and the debate and inspire action and advocacy. 09 May 09 is World Fair trade Day, and will feature a global integrated network collaboration around the theme of Big Bang. Big Bang is the creation of anew sustainable agenda. You heard it first. More info will be posted to the WorldFairTradeDay09 website on the 24th October. R
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beyond fair trade...so many items are made from quickly renewed resources (seed jewelry) or recycled resources (recycled upholstery) by so many cooperatives.....the website is also very well designed, easy to navigate and relaxing to look at...nice choices of colors, you two! I was very impressed...now if I could create a similar bazaar for my neck of the woods, maybe I could trade for some of your lovely items!
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Hi Bedy,
Your fair-trade goods gallery is so cool. I once attended a fair-trade workshop and found the concept a necessary upgrade for the conventional profit-for-profit-sake trade we have. I wish you continued success. Oh, and that's an impressive list of traveled countries you've got there. WiserEarth is indeed full of enviable people--in a good way ofcourse. Nice to have known you. |
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the best road to take to achieving happiness is to overcome pain and suffering, to do this, we all have to place the human being at the central value