This week The Premises Studio and the People Tree Foundation! In the heart of London’s East End, The Premises has been one of the capital’s most popular music studio venues for more than twenty one years. The Premises now has fourteen high-spec, low-cost music studios for rehearsal and recording, and GET this, it’s TOTALLY SOLAR POWERED! (In the interview Viv mentions that the sell their power BACK to the grid, receiving a cheque for £800 last month! This should be an incentive for any company! The second feature this week is the People Tree Foundation. People Tree had its beginnings in 1991, and is the pioneer of Fair Trade Fashion internationally, promoting environmental justice and Fair Trade, it’s an independent charity, working alongside People Tree the Fair Trade Company. The Foundation brings benefits to an even greater number of farmers and artisans through scaling up training, technical support and environmental initiatives and through raising awareness and campaigning for fair and sustainable fashion. They reducing poverty by creating new work opportunities and community support for people in developing countries, promoting work and community projects. They promot more environmental projects and organic cotton farming and campaign to create an empowering environment for Fair Trade and sustainability amongst the public, business leaders and policy makers… Good on them!

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