The Vice: Chocolate
The Virtue: Chocosol and the Chocosolistas

Sustainable chocolatier and social entrepreneur Michael Sacco of Chocosol brings virtue to the vice of chocolate, offering a sustainable alternative to the mass-produced, commercially processed chocolate industry. Chocosol is a social enterprise focused on ecology and conviviality with an established community of farmers in Chiapas, Mexico, sustainable technologists based out of Oaxaca City, Mexico and chocolatiers in Toronto, Ontario. Chocosol has developed a system of trade that goes directly to the farmers, an equality-based system that they call "horizontal trade." Above all, they make delicious, mouth-watering chocolate, and they make it in a virtuous, sustainable way.

Video: Jon-Erik Lappano
Music via Creative Commons Licence: Tremor "Viajante"
Interview: Melissa Shin and Lirad Kligman
Produced by Corporate Knights Inc.