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Friday, August 17, 2007

12 Easy Ways to Support Fair Trade

This list is courtesy of TransFair USA, via Keetsa Blog.
  1. Vote - vote with your dollar, buy fair trade products
  2. Ask - ask for them at your local shops, create demand
  3. Host - have fair trade events to raise awareness in your local community
  4. Join - online communities
  5. Celebrate - every October is fair trade month
  6. Learn - get educated about fair trade and its global impact
  7. Donate - to transfair usa and support their mission
  8. Introduce - the fair trade movement in college campuses
  9. Start - get involved with a local group or start one
  10. Fundraise - hold a school or church fair trade products fundraiser
  11. Give - need gift-giving ideas? fair trade products make great gifts
  12. Serve - fair trade coffee and tea at your next faith service
And of course, I think a great way to support fair trade products is to buy fair trade at shopghia.com! Our current fair trade brand is World Finds, and soon we will be adding fair trade apparel from Avatar Imports.

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2 Comments:

At August 20, 2007 1:16 PM , Blogger Compassioninpolitics said...

My cursory Google search and a Nashville Scene article indicated that Bongo Java and Fido serve Fair Trade and the Starbucks does for a small fraction. Where in Nashville serves Fair Trade?
How about national chains?
I think both of these would be excellent ways to encourage folks to go Fair Trade in their daily cafe decisions.
Important issue! Too bad we didn't run into each other at the unconference this weekend..

 
At September 3, 2007 9:58 AM , Anonymous Wow! Imports said...

thanks for the informative articles on fair trade!

We have some nice articles on our website on fair trade and green gifts.

 

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