Showing posts with label Fair Trade certified. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fair Trade certified. Show all posts

Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Fair Trade Towns USA

Fair Trade Towns USA Is a fun and engaging way to grow the Fair Trade movement in your group of people. As a complete platform for growing awareness, availability, and commitment to Fair Trade in the US, Fair Trade Towns provides the chance to build community in your town, as good as connect your community to those in the developing world.

Fair Trade Towns unites conscious consumers, dedicated activists, member of the business and retail community, local communities of faith and other community organization, and your city or town government in the shot to make sure that we are all playing a part in supporting those who give us with so much in the US market.

Through dynamic dealings, meetings, online organizing and other outreach we bring jointly a diverse group of community members to expand the message of the import of Fair Trade and unite our community behind a banner of global justice and fairness.

The movement is made up of a diverse group of inspired activists, engaged community groups and organizations, and communally responsible members of the business community. We are dedicated to raising awareness in our fellow community members that all dollars we spend is a great decision, with ramification that echo across continents, countries, and communities.

Monday, 12 March 2012

Fair Trade Flowers


Giving Fair Trade certified blooms are the greatest way to show one cares about the person getting the flowers as well as about the workers on flower farms. Fair Trade certification ensure that workers on large-scale flower farm have access to union, take delivery of better wages, and work below safe labor conditions with defensive equipment and proper training.

Growers are able to keep the best workers because of these profits, leading to better output and better flower quality. In addition, Fair Trade certification provides workers vital financial support in the form of the Fair Trade premium: 10 percent of the commercial price of every stem sold is allocated to a development fund that gives workers the opportunity to invest in the future of their communities.

Fair Trade certified flowers are becoming increasingly popular and are available generally in popular retail outlet such as Whole Foods Market. Since the Fair Trade Certified flowery program launch in 2007, U.S. consumers have purchase over 15 million Fair Trade stems, resulting in an moving $800,000 in community development funding for workers to invest in their communities.