Showing posts with label fair trade towns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fair trade towns. Show all posts

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Fair Trade Washington D.C.


What do Media, PA, Brattleboro, VT, Milwaukee, WI, Amherst, MA, Taos, NM, Northampton, MA, San Francisco, CA, Montclair, NJ, Ballston Spa, NY, Chico, CA, and Bluffton, OH all have in common?...

...They are all Fair Trade Towns, USA!

And, proudly riding on their coattails is Washington D.C.,
confident that they, too, will soon have enough supporters, vendors, retailers and patrons of fair trade goods in their community.

Join their cause on Facebook
and spread the word to help get D.C. declared an official Fair Trade Town!



DC Fair Trade is a proud supporter of Fair Trade the White House.

Find out more about how to become a Fair Trade Town.


Friday, July 3, 2009

Seattle Fair Trade Town




Media, PA was America's first Fair Trade Town...Seattle, WA is making great headway to becoming its twelfth!

Collaborating with Fair Trade Towns USA, Seattle is working tirelessly to get more Fair Trade Certified products sold in local retail stores, coffee shops and businesses.
Fair Trade Seattle was recently mentioned in Trans Fair USA's Newsletter after the Mayor's Neighborhood Walk of the Roosevelt Neighborhood. Mayor Nichols visited the local Ten Thousand Villages where he learned of the campaign to make Seattle a fair trade city and agreed to send them a representative for the Steering Committee!

There's still much work to do, but Stacie Ford-Bonnelle, Shin Shin Hsia (Co-Coordinators of Campaign to Make Seattle a Fair Trade City) and their crew of hard working team members will get the job done.

To learn more about how your home town can become fair trade, visit Fair Trade Towns USA (new website to launch soon) and start the process!

Seattle Fair Trade is a proud supporter of Fair Trade the White House (newly linked on their website and blog!).