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People 4 Earth has been helping, together with other NGO's like Urgenda, to make the biggest fair of the Netherlands, the household fair, to gradually become more sustainable.
We developed a questionnaire with both social and environmental aspects to check which of the booths on the fair could be chosen as the most sustainable booth of all. Furthermore Victoria Koblenko (a Dutch soap actress) was wearing a "green" little black dress, which was checked by People 4 Earth on its sustainability aspects. And there is also a Green Booth on the fair which houses many different sustainable companies.
In this way a great many Dutch consumers will be able to familiarize themselves with what sustainability could mean in and for their normal life.
Separate from the regular contest of the selection of the best Dutch supermarket of the year, in 2011 a new initiative will make its debut. This year for the first time there will also be the selection of sustainability in Dutch supermarkets.
The Board of Directors of People 4 Earth are pleased to announce that as of 1st February 2011 Hugo Skoppek took up the position of Director Research and Framework within the organization. He took over from Rene Heusschen, who has played a critical role in developing People 4 Earth's current standards.
The board of People 4 Earth is proud to announce the appointment of a new board member in the person of mr. Jack (J.H.) van Ham, former chairman of the board of ICCO.
People 4 Earth is happy to announce that next year with the help of ICCO*, we will initiate two pilots in Africa supporting smallholders to develop more sustainable production practices. The project's aim is to build connections among smallholders through the use of People 4 Earth's SAMS (Sustainability Accounting Management System), giving them insight through their entire supply chain.
