Doug Stephan Five-Away

The Doug Stephan Radio Show is holding a two week fair trade product five-away contest! Enter to win by adding yourself as a Facebook friend. Items range from a $100.00 gift certificate from Indigenous Designs which offers eco-chic fair trade and organic fashion; a Fair Trade Sports deluxe Eco-certified football; a Be Sweet cuddly bamboo baby knit cap; a luscious chocolate and green tea basket from Equal Exchange; Anti-Body’s Nutcracker Sweet moisturizing lip balm set; decadent dark chocolate bars from Alter Eco; a gift basket featuring Ugandan dark roast from Thanksgiving Coffee; and a ingeniously retooled wallet made from recycled tires from One World Projects.

Contest runs through Dec. 18th!

Delicious Living

Delicious Living blogged about the Fair Trade Holiday Gift Guide! Take a look and then take some time to read other entries about 'Real Food, Natural Health and Green Planet'.

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Canaan Fair Trade on Facebook

Canaan Fair Trade has a new Facebook page! Become a fan and learn more about their fair trade olive oil (and other delicacies) from Palestine. Let's get their fan base up to thousands in no time to help support the laborers who provide us with our quality oil!

Fair Trade Holiday Gift Guide

The Fair Trade Holiday Gift Guide is here! With over 80 different fair options, you'll find plenty of stocking stuffers and Holiday presents for all ages. Find the guide at Fair Trade the White House!

Canaan Fair Trade In The Washington Post

Fair Trade the White House supporter, Canaan Fair Trade, made the news yesterday for their quality olive oil they sell to sustain 1,200 farmers through The Palestine Fair Trade Association.

The West Bank's gold

A Palestinian cooperative looks to trade olive oil for foreign cash

Palestinian farmer Mur'eb Kaileh, 70, with bags of olives that will eventually be processed for oil at a facility on the outskirts of Ramallah. (Muhammed Muheisen/associated Press)

By Howard Schneider

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

For centuries, olive harvesting here has been a mostly local industry.

Farmers, their relatives and neighbors beat the trees with sticks or strip the olives from branches by hand, then cart them to a local press and sell or trade the oil in nearby markets. Harvest workers keep a share of the crop for their labor, and olive press owners keep a share of the oil -- a testament to the small-scale, bartered nature of the undertaking.

That model can help sustain a household, but in a new factory on the outskirts of this northern West Bank village, an effort is underway to reshape the olive industry so it can help sustain a wider Palestinian economy...

Read the rest.

Fair Trade Cities Campaign, Seattle

Fair Trade Cities Campaign Kickoff Meeting! Wednesday, October 21, 7pm – 9pm
Cafe Allegro 4214 University Way NE, Seattle
(206) 633-3030

Come join us to learn more about fair trade and how you can get involved in the Seattle campaign!

We are currently in need of members for the steering committee and welcome help for any of the following areas:

- legal advice to secure 501(c)3 status - website design and hosting - marketing - local business engagement - public awareness and recruitment - faith-based outreach - street team and social networking - event planning


Please feel free to contact us at: seattlefairtradecity@gmail.com

Busboys and Poets

EVENT: Busboys and Poets Fair Trade Night – Movie, Mini Spa, FREE Chocolate and MORE!

DATE/TIME: Monday, 19 October, 2009 6:00 PM

VENUE: Busboys and Poets @ 5th & K Streets
1025 5th Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
202-789-2227

You’re invited to Fair Trade Night!

VENUE: Global Exchange Shop at Busboys and Poets 5th & K Streets location

Join the Global Exchange Fair Trade Store to celebrate Fair Trade Month!

Treat yourself to a night of FREE Fair Trade treats, including:

• a screening of Burning Heart Production’s “The Fair Trade:” the story of c0-founders of Anti-Body Fair Trade cosmetics and how they came to dedicate their lives to Fair Trade
• a mini spa lunch of our new line of Anti-Body beauty products, including lotions, bath fizzers and MORE! Test their fabulous scents – it’s Fair Trade!
• a book signing by Jackie DeCarlo, author of Fair Trade: A Beginner’s Guide, and learn how you can help “Fair Trade the White House“
• and (last but NOT least) a divine-ly delicious chocolate tasting with Divine Chocolate! -It’s positively decadent!!!

ABOUT GLOBAL EXCHANGE

Global Exchange is an international human rights organization dedicated to promoting economic, political and social justice. Our Fair Trade program offers alternatives to sweatshop production by working with artisans and farmer cooperatives worldwide.

More about this calendar event:
http://www.meetup.com/DCFairTradeNet/calendar/11622262/

Lotus Foods, Volcano Rice

Just in time to celebrate Fair Trade Awareness Month, Lotus Foods is proud to introduce to the US market the first rice to satisfy the stringent fair trade, social and environmental standards required to be certified by IMO as Fair for Life Social & Fair Trade Certified — Volcano Rice from the mineral-rich volcanic soils of West Java, Indonesia.

Volcano Rice is a colorful blend of nutrient-dense brown and red rice. Reputed to restore vitality due to its high mineral and fiber content, the Javanese favor this healthy rice for its satisfying wholesome flavor. Grown on small family farmer cooperatives in the Tasikmalaya region of West Java.

• High in magnesium, manganese, zinc
• Cooks in only 30 minutes

Pick up your bag today and find several delicious recipes!

Craft Village

What do Kenya and The Simpsons have in common? Craft Village!

Craft Village Promotes Simpsons Statues to Help Kenyan Village

Article By Paul Young, Guest Writer On October - 5 - 2009

Craft Village UK, an organization coordinating and promoting fair trade directly with artisans in poor countries, is currently marketing a series of Simpsons Statues to benefit a Kenyan village. Craft Village’s mission is to improve the working and living conditions of crafts people and their families, and promote fair wages and job creation via their exclusive, sustainable, copyright protected product lines.

Craft Village launched the Kenyan Simpsons Statues in February 2009 after 3 years of development. Their unique mix of Fair Trade and animation-art has received great reviews from CNN, The BBC, The United Nations Development Programme, Sir Bob Geldof, and Matt Groening, creator of the Simpsons.

For more on the partnership of Craft Village and The Simposons, read the rest of the article here and click on the video below to see Craft Village, Carving a Future Pt. 1.

Craft Village UK. Carving a Future part 1

Jones GABA on Got2BeGreen

Got2BeGreen posted a product review from Shelby Moser on Fair Trade the White House supporter, Jones GABA and their Fuji Apple Tea-Juice.

When it comes to beverages, I tend to be a purist, craving only water, black tea or red wine for my drinking needs. The latest heat- wave, however, found me looking around in my fridge for anything cool to give me respite from the 100+ degree weather. I tentatively grabbed the can of Jones GABA Fuji Apple Tea-Juice that had been sitting in the refrigerator, neglected because it wasn’t one of my three favorite beverages. I had been meaning to try it - all in the name of fair trade - but the last thing I wanted was a sugary chemical drink with mystery ingredients a mile long. Even though I admittedly had to look up the name of my drink (Gamma Aminio) Butyric Acid, or GABA , helps to increase the production of brain waves and strengthen focus and clarity), I was comfortable with words like “natural,” “tea” and “apple.”....


Read the rest of this review (and others!!) at Got2BeGreen and see how GABA can help you! And visit Jones GABA for other tasty flavors.

Fair Fabric

Silk with a soul? That's right! At least silk from Fair Fabric does. Fair Fabric works with co-operatives and non-profit organizations to find markets for quality, fairly traded silk fabric and products. They are committed to providing sustainable employment for economically disadvantaged women, breaking the cycle of poverty so many women are trapped in today.



Take a look at their beautiful scarves and wraps, sheets and bedding and tableware.

Meet the women Fair Fabric sustains.

Jackie DeCarlo and FT Month

Jackie DeCarlo has a busy Fair Trade Month ahead! There are two upcoming opportunities to hear her speak in the DC area.
You can find her first at the Green Festival, hosted by Green America and Global Exchange, on Sunday, October 11th at 4 pm (check out their website to see all key note speakers, vendors and more). Then, on October 15th, Jackie has the privilege of doing a Fair Trade month event at the Metro Washington GLBT Community Center located near Scott Circle downtown. Hear about fair trade, local activities, Fair Trade the White House campaign and more The event starts at 7 and all are welcome.

Jackie is an experienced traveler, author, speaker and advocate for social justice.

Green Earth Journey

Green Earth Journey gives a shout out to Fair Trade the White House! Take a look and then, while you're there, spend a little time digging through their archives. They provide information on everything from product reviews, fair trade, green living, fun, resourceful tips and much, much more!

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Thank you, Green Earth Journey!

Ten Thousand Villages in Forbes

Ten Thousand Villages received a glowing review in Forbes over the weekend. Selling everything from unique handicrafts, home decor, kitchen ware and jewelry, all of Ten Thousand Villages items are fairly traded, meaning the artisans earn a sustainable wage for their art and labor. Read how Ten Thousand Villages shops all over the world are growing with the fair trade movement.

Find a location near you.


Ten Thousand Villages of Pasadena is a proud supporter of Fair Trade the White House. Check them out!

Rishi Tea

Rishi Tea has been at the forefront of Fair Trade Certified tea production for years. Founded on the commitment to set the standard for quality and expand the awareness of tea and its rich, inspirational tradition, they offer superb loose-leaf tea imported directly from tea gardens across Asia, made according to ancient artisan practices using organic cultivation techniques and Fair Trade standards.

Rishi is a proud supporter of Fair Trade the White House and has included their name to the long list of signatures inviting First Lady Michelle Obama to Fair Trade her Home. Add your name, too!

Check out their homepage for their end of summer discount on iced teas!

Follow their blog and find them on Facebook

Your Daily Thread

Check out Fair Trade the White House supporter (and media sponsor) Your Daily Thread (YDT) and learn more about the latest in green trends and fair practices. Follow their blog and watch their newly launched YDT TV!

Labor Day

Happy Labor Day from Fair Trade the White House!

Labor Day was founded in 1894, protecting the rights of U.S. workers from unfair wages, working too many hours and unfair working conditions. That's why we celebrate this special holiday. Unfortunately, many of the issues fought against last century still exist today.

This Labor Day, shop sweat free and ensure the items you purchase are treating others fairly. Find a sweat free and fair shopping list at Sweat Free Communities.

Guayaki & TIME Magazine

Fair Trade the White House supporter, Guayaki Yerba Mate, received a nice write up in TIME Magazine!

A Tree-Hugging Tea

By Coeli Carr Monday, Sep. 14, 2009

A worker weighs freshly picked shade-grown yerba mate at one of Guayaki's rain-forest-restoration projects in eastern Paraguay. Mate is among the most popular caffeinated drinks in the world.

As a college student in California in the early '90s, Alex Pryor always kept some of his native Argentina with him. His link to home was a beverage made from the leaves of the yerba mate (mah-tay) tree that, cup for cup, provides more than half the caffeinated zap of coffee with fewer jitters and an abundance of antioxidants. As more of his college buddies cozied up to the drink, Pryor saw the glimmer of a business. But the lightbulb moment happened in Paraguay in 1995 when he first spotted a yerba mate tree growing in its ideal habitat--in the shade of a rain forest that happened to be owned by his godfather. Pryor struck a deal: if his godfather planted hardwood trees in the rain forest's degraded areas and started growing mate along with them, Pryor would buy the output. The following year, he founded Guayakí with David Karr, a college friend and mate aficionado...

Click here to read the article in its entirety. Congratulations to Guayaki for all your hard work from the FTWH Team!

World Co-Op

The mission of World Cooperative is to establish synergistic alliances with a consortium of companies and financial institutions who, through their involvement, will expedite the expansion, stability and longevity of our goals of global distribution and sales of Fair Trade goods, primarily those originating from Eastern Africa.

World Co-Op is a group of artists, scientists and activists whose collective purpose is to cultivate the world's acumen of Fair Trade through the introduction of high quality and creative textile crafts such as re-usable grocery bags made in Rwanda.

All of World Co-Op's products are made with Fair Trade Certified cotton.

Check out their products and learn more about their sustainable company.

World Co-Op is a proud supporter of Fair Trade the White House

BigTent

BigTent was born out of co-founders Nicholas Chim and Laney Whitcanack's desire to build a free, easy way for trusted groups to connect online. Laney wanted cheap and easy-to-use software to support The Princess Project, a non-profit she founded to provide free prom dresses to high school girls who can't afford them. Nicholas wanted to help a co-worker more easily access information from her community mothers group.

Seeing an obvious need in the marketplace, Chim and Whitcanack decided to create a new online tool for organizing groups. In early 2006 they founded BigTent, a technology company that provides free, Web-based software to community groups.

Today, BigTent is a venture capital-funded company with a seasoned leadership team and groups in every state in the nation. BigTent helps real-world communities share, communicate, and organize online and in-person by providing intuitive, free group management tools.

BigTent is a supporter of Fair Trade the White House. Using their forum helps us keep organized and informed!