Have you ever been out on the town and had your reusable water bottle run dry? Sometimes it’s awkward, or even considered rude, to walk into businesses and ask for a refill, notes Stephen Flynn, cofounder of a new app called Tap. Flynn and his business partner Mike Postma hope you will swap plastic for […]
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Second Fiddleheads
This fall, the eco-friendly family storeFiddleheads Kids Shop (300 Prince Albert Road) is opening a second location on Nine Mile Circle in Larry Uteck Boulevard, right next door to the new Morris East! Co-owner, Nancy Rector, says that Fiddleheads is a destination store for people coming in from numerous parts of the province and even […]
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Tammachat returns to the south end for a textile show
Mahone Bay-based textile company Tammachat, a fair trade social enterprise organization that works with rural weavers in Thailand and Laos, is having another show of its products this weekend. Consider it a fair trade holiday gift show of eco-fashions for you and your home, taking place at the Universalist Unitarian Church (5500 Inglis Street) on Saturday, November 14, from 10am to 4pm, in the heart of the south end. As an added incentive to check out Tammachat’s wares, they are now partnered with literacy program Big Brother Mouse, which will provide books to children in Laos for every textile product