Ate the breakie, bought the T-shirt
Home » Blog » Sarah Heeringa » Ate the breakie, bought the T-shirtDelicious Fair Trade food, excellent coffee and live Kiwi music ... what a way to start the day.
Some days it’s easy to be good. Like yesterday morning, where anyone making an early visit to Auckland Zoo’s old elephant house was rewarded with a delicious organic and fair trade breakfast (I went straight for the pancakes and banana bread) and an excellent cup—or several—of Kokako coffee.
An impressive number of people attending the SBN-sponsored breakfast were organised enough to bring their own cups—thereby helping those who were working behind the scenes to make it a waste-free event. I did my bit by clearing my compostable plate of every last caramel dribble and pancake crumb.
As part of FairTrade Fortnight celebrations Burma the elephant and her friends at Auckland Zoo have recently converted to All Good Fairtrade bananas—together with all the zoo’s primates and a few exotic birds. Since we were in the elephant house it was fitting that after breakfast and time to chat, Simon Coley from All Good Organics explained some of the exciting developments sourcing of organic and ethically produced bananas from around the world—including images and anecdotes from Simon and Matthew Morrison's recent trip to El Guabo. See the travel blog here. 
The lovely Kirsten Morrell, of Goldenhorse fame, sang a couple of songs from her fab new debut solo album Ultraviolet. After that I just had to buy one of her groovy fair trade cotton T-shirts.
Now that’s my idea of a great start to the day!
Pictures from top to bottom:
(Picture at top) Kirsten Morell and Steve Able
(Pic 2) Mike Murphy and the heroic Kokako breakfast team
(Pic 3) Fiona Stephenson, environmental consultant and commentator, Mitch Cuevas, former CEO of Ecostore, and Chris Morrison from All Good Bananas
(Pic 4) Rob Rogers from Three Years Out and Jonny Templeman, Design Dairy
(Pic 5) Rachel Brown from the Sustainable Business Network
(Pic 6) Julia Campbell from Fairtrade New Zealand and Miranda Brown of Conscious Cloth
(Pic 7) Kirsten Morell singing
Fri May 14, 2010 @ 02:54 PM
