fair trade

Fair trade is a social movement that promotes sustainable development by seeking greater equity in international trade. Fair trade offers better trading conditions to marginalized producers and workers, particularly in the southern hemisphere. Several fair trade certification organizations offering product labeling programs exist, including TransFair USA, Fair Trade Labeling Organizations International and Fair Trade Federation.

Fair trade certification programs typically address making improvements to the following aspects of international trade: labor conditions, pricing, direct trade (eliminating middlemen), transparency, community development and environmental sustainability. You'll find bloggers addressing fair trade at Fair Trade Certified, Catholic Relief Services, Global Exchange Store and many other sites.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “fair trade”

• Rebekah Green – Eco-Friendly Sustainable Customizable Handcrafted Jewelry

  
  The Fashionable Housewife — Authority: 577
  I was recently introduced to a gorgeous, fair-trade, eco-friendly, sustainable, hand-made line of jewelry by Rebekah Green. Rebekah, a reverse environmentalist, entertainment personality and designer, launched her new luxury line of sustainable, customizable and handcrafted jewelry made exclusively of ...
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• Who really gains with all the "ECO" hype

  
  Business Forum UK - Advice Help and Questions - A1 Forums — Authority: 153
  I just cant understand what all the fuss is about, Eco means more money?? I used to use recycled copier paper until i saw how much it was about £3 extra, let face it nearly all paper made today has a certain percentage of recycled paper included. Then theres the issue with green house gases and the ozone, if its ...
  9 hours ago

• Doing a World of Good for Fair Trade Artisans

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 658
  The term “fair trade handicrafts” summons images of wicker baskets and hand-dyed sarongs. But the business side of the fair trade marketplace is getting a little less old-world, thanks to World of Good, an organization that connects artisans in developing countries with mainstream retailers (including eBay and ...
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• Klimate Change

  
  The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG — Authority: 142
  Fred Bloggs. I recently found this on Englishmans Castle . As the story goes, the wartermellons at East Anglia university had their computers hacked by the russians and all their e-mails and stuff was “acquired.” The stuff contained within is really quite frightening, as they have set out “rules” so that ...
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• Video - FAIR FOOD: FIELD TO TABLE

  
  Sustainable Living — Authority: 128
  "FARMWORKERS TODAY: Approximately 2-3 million farmworkers feed our nation every day, working under some of the harshest and most dangerous conditions found in any industry. This is a glimpse into the hard realities that a vast majority of these workers face on a day-to-day basis. For more information on the fair food ...
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• The Friday Five – cooking for charity

  
  thefoodiegifthunter.co.uk — Authority: 127
  It surely won’t have escaped your notice that today is Children in Need day . You might have been busy knocking up cakes for cake sales, and if not then get ready for next year by stocking up at Lakeland now . There doesn’t appear to be a cookbook to support Children in Need this year, so here are five books out ...
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• Slavery – 2JS class assembly. Complete video for download

  
  Year Two Blog — Authority: 123
  Here it is… What do you think? To download, click the “Vimeo” link at the bottom right of the screen. This will take you to the download site. Next scroll down. You should see a grey section in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen which says “download”. You need to register with the website. It’s ...
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• Track My T

  
  iLearn Technology — Authority: 125
  What it is: Track My T is a truly impressive website that I learned about from @dianadell on Twitter. Track my T lets students type in the unique lot number on their t-shirt and then go through an amazing interactive journey tracking their t-shirt from its very beginning as a cotton seed on a farm, to every ...
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• Trade

  
  TransFair Canada — Authority: 121
  Klitgaard, T., & Schiele, K. (1998). Free versus fair trade: The dumping issue. (cover story). Current Issues in Economics & Finance , 4(8), 1. read more
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• Another failure of NAFTA

  
  Talking Union — Authority: 127
  Cover via Amazon by Duane Campbell The U.S. and the Mexican economy are closely linked – and this integration has been advanced by the NAFTA / North American Free Trade Agreement of 1994. * The 2008- 2009 banking crisis in the U.S. has produced a severe ...
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• Going Green with the Mystics

  
  Fair Trade Sports | sustainable eco soccer balls and more — Authority: 116
  When the WNBA’s Washington Mystics hosted the Los Angeles Sparks (a game they ended up winning 75-63) this past season, they focused their marketing efforts on a “ Go Green ” night. Seeing this as the perfect opportunity for Fair Trade Sports to spread awareness about the connection between sports, conservation, ...
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• The Green Directory Guides Eco Friendly Customers

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 143
  People all over the world are looking for ways to be more environmentally friendly.  With laws rapidly changing households are finding themselves increasingly pressured to use environmentally friendly products and services.  The United Kingdom has failed to reach many of the goals outlined by the European Union ...
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• Does slavery exist today?

  
  Year Two Blog — Authority: 123
  This is a question that lots of us in 2JS have been thinking about. It is a hard question to answer. John and Sam put it very well. This is what they said: JOHN: Even though the slave trade was abolished in 1865, some people are still forced to work. SAM: Children are forced to work to make money so that they can ...
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• My first sip of Clover

  
  SilverPen Publishing — Authority: 124
  I first heard of the Clover coffee machine when The Coffee Ethic opened just off the downtown square of my hometown, Springfield, Missouri. This $11,000 coffee brewing machine was supposed to make the best coffee ever, one cup at a time, through some fancy weighing, heating, and water distribution processes. Coffee ...
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• Pornsawat Wathanakul, Greenland’s Bureau of Mining and Petroleum and True North Gems: The Smoking Gun of Collusion?

  
  Fair Trade Jewelry — Authority: 408
  Introduction: We now return back to Greenland, where the Inuits represented by the 16th August Union, continue in their negotiations with the Bureau of Mining and Petroleum (BMP). Despite the advent of the new home rule government, and the optimism presented in early posts, The BMP continue to deny Inuit small scale ...
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• Fears for fair trade farmers if banana war ends

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Tariffs could be lowered on Latin American imports • UK shoppers urged to keep buying Caribbean fruit Britains shoppers are being urged to keep faith with fair trade Caribbean banana growers as Europe and Latin America prepare to declare a ceasefire in the 16-year "banana wars," one of the worlds ...
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• Making a difference on our farm in Biolley, Costa Rica

  
  This Girl's Gone Green ! — Authority: 104
  Our farm is off the beaten path, away from all the tourists and hubub of hotels, beaches, nightclubs and restaurants in Costa Rica. We were looking for something completely different. We wanted to live with the country folk and break away from our professional lives in the USA. And before we purchased our farm in ...
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• Fair Trade Christmas

  
  onehandclapping — Authority: 462
  So the stores are already playing Christmas music and down here in Texas the highs are only the 70s and 80s, so the holiday season must be upon us. But as we gear up for the celebrations, the spiritual reflections, and the traditions now is a good time to start deliberately planning how we can make this Christmas a ...
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• Fair Trade Christmas

  
  Everyday Justice — Authority: 408
  So the stores are already playing Christmas music and down here in Texas the highs are only the 70s and 80s, so the holiday season must be upon us. But as we gear up for the celebrations, the spiritual reflections, and the traditions now is a good time to start deliberately planning how we can make this Christmas a ...
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• Grounds for Change Giveaway

  
  EcoSalon — Authority: 560
  Coffee makes the world go around. Well, at least my world anyway. Without it, I’m a bit like one of  Snow White’s dwarf’s – sleepy, grumpy and dopey. But I won’t drink just any coffee. Bad coffee doesn’t get past my lips. It not only has to taste good to me but it also has to be good for the environment. ...
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