31/03/2014
Ulm is Fairtrade City
Ulm is now officially Fairtrade town. 41 retail stores and 29 dining establishments make far with . In addition, schools, clubs and churches. Very often cooked fair coffee.
London, Madrid , Rome and San Francisco are already Fairtrade Towns - and since Friday has also Ulm this seal . The prices are calculated so that the margin largely eliminated and thus the producers - especially small-scale farmers in developing countries - can live worthy of their use . Child labor is prohibited. Strict criteria for environmental and social standards must be adhered to .
41 retail stores and 29 dining establishments in Ulm have been hitherto known to have Fair Trade products such as coffee, cane sugar and juices , but also clothes from fair trade in the range. This was the condition - 22 shops and 11 restaurant owners based on the number of inhabitants - " far more than fulfilled," praised the Fairtrade Ambassador Hannah Rüther from Munich. She handed on Friday evening at the house of the meeting presented the certificate to Mayor Ivo patrons.
The OB remembered the first meeting two years ago, when the so-called control group proposed the Fairtrade campaign for Ulm. " Yes, we get down," he said. But yet , many people could not afford the more expensive fair-trade products. Ulm's goal: "That's why we need to run this concern from the exclusivity. "
In December 2012, the Ulm city council had decided that the city in this global campaign involved as before 1400 other cities . Especially in Ulm for years a lot going on with respect to the sustainable trade , for example in World Shop Sterngasse . This presented its fair trade fashion on the catwalk. However, other institutions and organizations presented themselves at the " Market of Possibilities " with tastings before .
Already experience of fair trade products such as coffee, tea and chocolate have in Ulm quite different suppliers :
Student Services : To provide the students of the University of Ulm and various universities in Ulm , Aalen, Schwäbisch Gmünd and Biberach a pleasant environment , " we have placed quite a lot of coffee machines," says Günter Mayr , Head of the relevant university gastronomy. In all these machines for years of fairly traded coffee is brewed : That's a total of six tons of coffee per year , it takes the student union . Depending on where the contract roaster buys , the coffee comes from Colombia times , sometimes from Ecuador . 0.2 liters of filter coffee cost 80 cents, the cappuccino 1,20 € . " But we do not pay it ," says Mayr. The country is a small grant.
The Innkeeper : Wilhelm Schubert, the host of the guild house of the mariners in the fishing district , takes its fair and at the same time organic coffee at the Ulm-based company Seeberger . He also gives out organic beverages . " This fits with the concept. " Because in the guild house dishes are also from Schwäbisch - Hällischen country pig and trout from the Allgäu region on the map .
The supermarket : In the market buying Ulm in Einstein street you will find a number of products with the Fair Trade label on the shelf , such as coffee , tea, chocolate , rice , wine and even fresh roses. "Our clientele has written to us whether we want to join the action of the city ," says Ulmer Director Michael Droll . Finally, a separate department in the enterprise with sustainably produced goods dealing .
http://www.swp.de/ulm/lokales/ulm_neu_ulm/Ulm-ist-Fairtrade-Stadt;art4329,2502728
Ulm ist nun offiziell Fairtrade-Stadt. 41 Einzelhandelsgeschäfte und 29 Gastronomiebetriebe machen bisher mit. Außerdem Schulen, Vereine und Kirchengemeinden. Sehr oft wird fairer Kaffee gekocht.
