Tea Appreciation Society – We love tea
Laura Bean Joins Our Scene
Aug 26th
Friday 5th, Monday 8th, Tuesday 9th September: 19:15
Saturday 6th September: 12:30 The show is taking place at Wimbledon College of Art, further details and directions are available on their website http://www.wimbledonmashow.com/ Also, if you’d like to check out Laura’s entertaining Blog to read a little more about her journey, the address is http://ifinallygotthistowork.blogspot.com/
Roof of the World Challenge Reach Tajikstan
Aug 17th
http://ukinkz.fco.gov.uk/content/en/article/2008/3922254/4849792 Full details of the Roof of the World Rally and the good work they have done en-route will be posted soon.
Our friends at Seed Surf Co.
Aug 12th
A big thanks to our friends at seed surf co. for helping us out with our latest run of organic Tea shirts, they did us proud printing a fine selection of waterbased inks onto organic cotton T’s.
The Tea Appreciation Society are always pleased to work with like-minded individuals.
Seed Surf Co. are all about hand craftmanship, whether it’s one of Mikey’s lovingly shaped Pocket Rocket Single Fins
or a Mini Kick Tail skateboard, it’s lovely to see a piece of work handfinished rather than mass produced.
Check out Seed and Mikey’s beautiful pieces of functional art.
Treading Lightly…
Jul 26th
We acknowledge that as an ethical company we’re not perfect. We’re honest with ourselves and our customers.
What we are doing at the Tea Appreciation Society is trying to find ways to lessen our impact; we’re always thinking of ways to do things better. We believe in our products, our organic cotton and bamboo t-shirts, hemp bags, organic and herbal teas.We’re selling our products at events from a cotton canvas tent, and brewing organic and fair trade tea.
Our new festival cups arrived today,
along with our wooden spoons.
The disposable cups are an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional, petrochemical-derived products.
The lactate from which the material is produced is derived from annually renewable resources such as corn starch and other starch rich vegetable substances like sugar or wheat.
The production of these cups requires fewer fossil resources and generates fewer greenhouse gasses, in comparison to most traditional plastics.
Composting these cups will lead to complete decomposition and biodegradation of the material – turning it into water and carbon dioxide.
Environmental Conditions & Duration for Composting:
When placed in an industrial composting machine that is both efficient and aerobic – 47 days.
When placed in a warm domestic compost heap with constant humidity – 120 days.
When placed in the ground or on a small compost heap – 1.3 years.
If buried underground – 2 years.
If buried in a cold environment – 2.6 years.
When discarded in a lake or in the sea – 4 years
When placed in an industrial composting machine that is both efficient and aerobic – 47 days.
When placed in a warm domestic compost heap with constant humidity – 120 days.
When placed in the ground or on a small compost heap – 1.3 years.
If buried underground – 2 years.
If buried in a cold environment – 2.6 years.
When discarded in a lake or in the sea – 4 years
We’re not planning to throw them in the ocean.
Thank you for supporting us in our attempts to find a better way to do business.
Isnaj Dui & Guy Jackson Gigs
Jul 24th
Inaj Dui and storyteller Guy Jackson are performing tracks from their new album ‘ingily spikin werld’.
Sunday 27th July at Utter at Arcola Theatre, 27 Arcola Street, E8 7.30pm
Richard Tyrone Jones hosts a blazing night of spoken word featuring Tim Wells, Alison Brumfitt, John Citizen, Sarah Verrinder and Guy Jackson and Isnaj Dui.
Transport: Dalston Kingsland overland, 67, 76, 149, 243, 30 & 38 buses.
Monday 28th July at Littlest Birds, Poetry Cafe, Betterton Street, WC1, £5 entry 7.30pm
Emma Robertson once again rounds up a grand night of spoken word and performance art!
News From The Roof Of The World (Hungary)
Jul 23rd
“Make tea not war”
Tea Party with “The Roof of the World Rally” at the British Embassy, Hungary, Budapest
HMA Greg Dorey hosted a Tea Party at the British Embassy, Budapest given by volunteers Ryan Walker, Shophie Willingale and Ian Richardson who are working with the SWORDE-Teppa charity of Tajikistan.
HMA Greg Dorey hosted a Tea Party at the British Embassy, Budapest given by volunteers Ryan Walker, Shophie Willingale and Ian Richardson who are working with the SWORDE-Teppa charity of Tajikistan.
This campaign fits well with the Embassy’s foreign policy priorities, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Agreed by the UN in 2000, the 8 MDGs aim to reduce global poverty. They include achieving universal education; reducing child mortality; combating malaria and tropical diseases; and ensuring environmental sustainability.
Among other 190 countries, Hungary has signed up to fulfil the commitments of the MDGs by 2015. But this work cannot just be left to governments. It is crucial that everyone – businesses, faith groups, professionals and charities like SWORDE-Teppa contributes towards the MDGs.
After Ryan`s short presentation about the charity, hot tea and cakes were served to the guests.
For more information on the Rally please visit http://www.roofoftheworldrally.com/ Images: courtesy of Dávid Harangozó, Diplomacy and Trade
For more information on the Rally please visit http://www.roofoftheworldrally.com/ Images: courtesy of Dávid Harangozó, Diplomacy and Trade
News From The Roof Of The World Rally
Jul 21st
The Charity: This grand adventure is of course being undertaken for an awesome cause. SWORDE-Teppa. Based at the finishing point in Tajikistan. The English and Education Centre performs amazing work and runs brilliant projects, including teaching kids a variety of subjects and giving them a real headstart in life. The Centre would benefit greatly from having a vehicle that could enable the kids to be taken out on educational day trips. And so, as part of this adventure the team endeavour to do their best and drive a minibus to them! News from the Italian leg…
As reported in the Italian Newspaper Verona Communica L’assessore alle Pari opportunità Vittorio Di Dio ha salutato nella mattinata di sabato 19 luglio in piazza Erbe i partecipanti a “Roof of the world rally”, raid automobilistico non competitivo di beneficenza patrocinato dall’assessorato alle Pari opportunità del Comune di Verona ed organizzato dall’associazione inglese no-profit The Adventurist. L’equipaggio composto da tre giovani, Walter Menegazzi, Pierdomenico Baccalario e Michele Peduzzi, è poi partito a bordo di una Citroen Xantia del 1993, con destinazione Tagikistan; una volta raggiunta la meta finale la spedizione devolverà il ricavato dalla vendita dell’equipaggiamento, compresa l’automobile, e la somma raccolta prima e durante il viaggio, all’associazione Sworde-Teppa che assiste i bambini più poveri del paese. All’iniziativa ha preso parte anche il pupazzo che rappresenta Geronimo Stilton, topo-investigatore protagonista di una fortunata serie di libri per ragazzi
My Italian is a bit shit to say the least, but I think it reads something like this… The city council member to the Equal opportunities Vittorio Di God has greeted in the morning of Saturday 19th July in the public square, the participants to “Roof of the world rally”, associated with the English non-profit association The Adventurist. The crew comprised three young people, Walter Menegazzi, Pierdomenico Baccalario and Michele Peduzzi, leaving in a Citroen Xantia (1993), destination Tagikistan; The final goal will be to donate the proceeds from the sale of the automobile, and sponsorship collected before and during the travel, to the Sworde-Teppa association to assist the poor children of the country of Tajikstan. Geronimo Stilton, rat-investigator protagonist of a fortunate series of books for boys is hitching a ride… For full story (in Italian) please visit: http://www.veronacomunica.it/leggi_news.php?id=8590 The Roof of The World Rally blog can be accessed here: http://www.roofoftheworldrally.com/
T for Tibet
Jul 18th
On 8 August the 2008 Olympics will begin in Beijing.
China promised to improve human rights if it hosted the Olympics, but the brutal crackdown on protests in Tibet clearly broke this promise.
Athletes competing at the Olympics have been told they must not mention human rights or Tibet, but no one can stop them making a simple signal that they care.
The T for Tibet hand signal is a quick, easy way to send a clear message:
It’s time to free Tibet!
Join the campaign and add your voice to our celebrity supporters and freedom lovers around the world.
Visit the T for Tibet page now at:http://www.tfortibet.org/
also on Facebook – T for Tibet and / or Free Tibet Campaign.
