Fair Trade

Field Notes on Food Justice: Why Your Local Grocery Store Makes Farmworkers Poor

Greg Asbed | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Nrdc Growing Green Awards, Food Justice, Video, Growing Green Awards, Local Farmers, Fair Trade, NRDC Growing Green, Fair Food, Green News
Greg Asbed

"Fresh and Fair from Florida"... Five words that would look so beautiful stamped on your next tomato purchase. Five words that would signify a revolution in agricultural working conditions.

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How Opening A Fair Trade Store Brought Global Perspective To A Small Town

Christine Prois | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Earthings, World Fair Trade Day, Fair Trade Day, What Is Fair Trade, Fair Trade, Impact News
Christine Prois

The premise of my store was to provide a place where fair trade items from international artisans would be available. I wanted to provide a place where the "locals" could come together with some of the newcomers to our small town.

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TPP: What You Don't Know Will Hurt You (Video)

Lori Wallach | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Tpp, Social Media, Labor, Ron Kirk, Media, Fair Trade, Barack Obama, Sopa, Video, Politics News
Lori Wallach

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Can I Be Healthy if Someone Else Isn't?

Ashley Koff | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Women's Health, Nutrition, Health, Equality Now, Women for Women, Fair Trade, Girls, Fair Trade Certified, Impact News
Ashley Koff

I learned that, for women and girls around the world, they don't have control over their health. What I also learned is that everything I do to optimize my health relates directly, is in fact, inextricably linked, to the health of the world's women and girls.

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Spread of HIV Linked to Fishery Collapse: Is Fair Trade Fish an Answer?

Jamie Bechtel | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Women, Lake Victoria, Piracy, Fao, Sushi, Overfishing, Illegal Fishing, Fair Trade, Africa, Fisheries, Slave Labor, Green News
Jamie Bechtel

Importantly, the overfishing crisis is not just about food. It is, perhaps surprisingly, about HIV/AIDS.

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The iPhone and Consumer Guilt

Annie Leonard | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Consumerism, Apple, The Story of Stuff, Foxconn, Annie Leonard, Iphone, China, Fair Trade, Electronics, Green News
Annie Leonard

Next time someone says they feel guilty for owning an iPhone, ask if they were the one who decided to maintain a 73% profit margin while underpaying workers on 18-hour-shifts. To roll out new models at breakneck speed? To use conflict minerals and toxic chemicals?

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Free Trade Like Manna From Heaven for Middle East Entrepreneurs

James Doran | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Palestine, Free Trade, Yemen, Entrepreneurship, Olive Oil, Fair Trade, Middle Eastern Free Trade, Iraqi Food, Middle Eastern Food, Yemeni Honey, Free Trade Policy, Al Man Wa Salwa, Iraqi Dessert, Canaan Oil, United Arab Emirates, World News
James Doran

The free-zone model should be given equal consideration by the new governments as they forge important new ties.

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Even With Daisey's Lies Peeled Away, Apple's Rotten Core Exposed

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Steve Jobs, Fair Trade, Computers, Manufacturing, Mike Daisey, Npr, Labor, Apple, Apple Ipad, Labor Rights, Foxconn, Consumers, Technology, This American Life, Electronics, Sweatshops, China, Apple Products, Technology News
Michelle Chen

If one fundamental truth has emerged from the scandal surrounding Daisey's dramatic fudging, it's that the lived reality of many Chinese workers is undoubtedly bleak -- no embellishment needed.

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Fashion With a Conscience

Phil Shepherd | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: India, Equality, Alaska, Fair Wages, Good & Fair, Fast Company, Shelton Green, Entrepreneurial, Fangfang Wu, Human Trafficking, Austin Texas, Texas, Education, Human Rights, Schools, Fashion, Fair Trade, China, Greenbox, Style News
Phil Shepherd

Shelton Green, risking everything for his unwavering dream, has created a line of fashion that both looks great and is conscious of the people who have created it.

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Joe Satran

Sales Of Fair Trade Products Explode

HuffingtonPost.com | Joe Satran | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Fair Trade USA, Growth of Sales in Fair Trade, Video, Fair Trade Boom, Fair Trade Product Sales, Fair Trade Products, Fair Trade Growth, Fair Trade Coffee, Fair Trade Chocolate, Fair Trade, Fair Trade Sales, Food News

These days, companies that sell fair trade-certified food might be doing much better than "fair." Sales of products with Fair Trade USA's seal of app...

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The Case For Fair Trade Porn

Erika Christakis | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Pornography, Porn, Fair Trade Porn, Internet Porn, Fair Trade, Culture News
Erika Christakis

Pornography is a fact of life, and parental controls and moralizing spoilsports won't make a dent in its exponential growth. But the bar needs raising. Maybe Fair Trade porn could reconnect us to a better relationship with the human body.

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Bring Fair Trade to Electronics

Yu Zhou | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Fair Trade, Apple Labor, Apple Workers, Apple, Apple Factory, Apple China Factory, Chinese Labor, Apple China Labor, Technology News
Yu Zhou

Debates in the United States in response to these disclosures have been how to assign blame or whether consumers can force Apple to be more ethical. This is not enough. The problems are certainly not limited to Apple or Foxconn.

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WATCH: Why You Should Buy Fair Trade Chocolate

Posted 01.27.2012

Read More: Ecorico, Eco-Friendly, Video, Vegan Chocolate, Fair Trade Chocolate, Chocolate, Fair Trade, Giselle Achecar, Latino Voices News

Ah chocolate. One of life's glorious pleasures. But did you know the chocolate bar you’re eating may have been produced with child slave labor? Yes,...

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Md. Man Reinvests Salary From Fair Trade Business For Nepali Woman

Potomac Patch | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Walmart, Patrick Fitzgerald, Melissa Carrier, Ed Edmondson, Earth Divas, Nepal, Greatest-Person-of-the-Day, Overstock.com, Fair Trade, Impact News

Making the rounds during the Internet start-up craze in the 1990s, Potomac resident Ed Edmondson worked to help develop the product marketing and busi...

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WATCH: Did Someone Say Vegan Chocolate Pudding?

Posted 01.12.2012

Read More: Cacao, Chocolate Pudding, Ecorico, Pudding, Chocolate, Vegan Recipes, Vegan Chocolate Pudding, Dark Chocolate, Fair Trade, Giselle Achecar, Latino Voices News

Organic dark chocolate over 70% cacao is not only sexy and delicious, but good for you. Cacao contains over 300 identifiable chemical compounds in...

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Kardashians Brand Accused Of Child Labor Violations

The Huffington Post | Alicia Ciccone | Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Small Business News and Trends, Manufacturing, Kim Kardashian, Victoria's Secret, Child Labor, Fair Trade, The Kardashians, Small Business News

The temptations of taking manufacturing overseas can be hard to resist: lower production costs, quick turnover and even better quality. But the risks ...

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Food of the Gods

Kwei Quartey | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Fair Trade, Foreign Policy in Focus, Kraft, Child Labor, Ghana Cocoa Board, Cadbury, Labor Rights, Theobrama, Africa, Ghana, Hershey's, Cocoa, Ghana Cocoa Labor, Impact News
Kwei Quartey

Sub-Saharan Africa produces 70-74 percent of the world's cocoa beans. Should anything wipe out the cocoa crop from either of these producer nations, there is no other country that could quickly take up the slack.

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Astoria Characters: The Sister to the World's Women

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Good Shepherd Volunteers, Sri Lanka, Peeksill New York, Sisters of St. Joseph, Thailand, Providence House, Haiti, Paraguay, Peru, Crown Heights, New Jersey, Handcrafting Justice, Maureen McGowan, Sisters of the Good Shepherd, Irish Step Dancing, Statues, Madagascar, Long Island, Un, Social Worker, Yeshiva University, Star of Bethlehem, Fair Trade, Philippines, Kenya, New York News
Nancy Ruhling

Maureen McGowan is the director of Handcrafting Justice, a Sisters of Good Shepherd project that sells handmade goods made by impoverished women in the developing world. This is no mom-and-pop charity.

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Can We Change the World by the Way We Shop?

Francine LeFrak | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Rwanda, Holidays, Philanthropy, Holiday Shopping, Retail Sales, Same Sky, Social Business, Cause Marketing, Ethical Fashion, Fair Trade, Style News
Francine LeFrak

Imagine walking into your local department store, picking out a shirt and eyeing its tag, which says "This product was made in Rwanda by Consolee."

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A Tipsy Heaven In Argentina

Jennifer Hamady | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Wine Country, Mendoza, Winery, Travel, South America, Pool, Fair Trade Certified, Wine Tours, Hotels, Cooking Class, Vineyard, Cooking, Argentina, Wine, Boutique Hotels, Empanadas, Dogs, Fair Trade, Travel News
Jennifer Hamady

The five acres were originally purchased by Gabriela's grandmother in 1936. Malbec vines and olive trees had been planted at the turn of the century and meticulously maintained.

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Holding Hands to Surround the White House: Environmental Leaders Speaking at Green Festival L.A. Urge Action

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 01.05.2012

Read More: White House, Bill Mckibben, Sustainable Food, David Korten, Alison Rose Levy, Amy Goodman, John Perkins, Green Living, Green Energy, Green Food, Green America, Tar Sands, Codepink, Dolores Huerta, Green Festival, Xl-Keystone-Pipeline, Jodie Evans, Sustainability, Climate Change, Fair Trade, Hill Harper, Atossa Soltani, Marianne Williamson, Jesse Carmichael, Nutiva, Green News
Alison Rose Levy

This Sunday, people will have the chance to hold hands surrounding the White House, and to ask President Obama to live up to his campaign promise to "end the tyranny of oil," by saying no to Tar Sands.

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Candy Politics: The Dark Side Of Chocolate

Menuism | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Chocolate Policies, Chocolate Practices, Fairtrade Chocolate, Organic Chocolate, Chocolate, Slidepollajax, Politics of Chocolate, Fair Trade Chocolate, Fair Trade, Policies of Chocolate, Food News
Menuism

Many chocolate lovers consume and enjoy chocolate without ever thinking about where it comes from or how it was produced. However, there are many issues surrounding the production of chocolate that are important for consumers to be aware of.

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A Helpful Halloween: Ideas For Giving Back

Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Unicef Trick or Treat, Video, Halloween, Onesight, Unicef, Operation-Shoebox, Halloween Giving, Goodwill, Fair Trade, Salvation Army, Trick-or-Treat, Impact News

When it comes to choosing your costume this Halloween, try this one on for size: go as a do-gooder. Even though Halloween typically takes the back ...

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It's NAFTA x3 as Free Trade Deals Sweep Through Congress

Michelle Chen | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Korea, Fair Trade, Free Trade, Labor, Human Rights, Panama, Nafta, Colombia, World News
Michelle Chen

Free trade deals have always been less about creating jobs than exporting neoliberal ideology to the Global South, thereby accelerating poor nations' cascade toward low labor standards, environmental exploitation and deregulation.

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Mitt Romney's Plan to Replace Free Trade

Ian Fletcher | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Mitt Romney, China, Free Trade, Trade Deficit, 2012 Gop Candidates, U.S. China Trade, Tariffs, Fair Trade, Politics News
Ian Fletcher

Mitt Romney has made tough statements about dealing with China which, if sincere, would not only put him beyond the other major Republican candidates on trade, but also far beyond what the Obama administration is doing.

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