Our friend Dean (of Dean’s Beans fame) is active with the other project we invest alot of time into, the abolitionist group Not For Sale. He has transformed Dean’s Beans into one of the first abolitionist companies in the US. Dean has also recently uploaded a few videos that speak directly into the heart of what Fair [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Dean’s Beans – Fair Trade videos
September 25, 2007Green Festival Seattle ‘07
September 24, 2007The Green Festival is coming to Seattle (where Fair Trade Sports is based) this Spring! Green Festival is a joint venture between Global Exchange and Coop America. I’m serving on the Host Committee to welcome this show to our city. We met last week at the Seattle Aquarium for a work session that was 50-people [...]
Whole Foods and Seattle Storm
September 19, 2007We launched Fair Trade soccer balls (along with footballs and basketballs) at Whole Foods yesterday. On a gorgeous Fall day in Seattle, Whole Foods team members worked with Coach Shelley Patterson of the WNBA Seattle Storm and Fair Trade Sports to corral a truckload of rambunctious elementary students into healthy and educational games, supporting the [...]
Equal Exchange soccer ball
September 12, 2007The good folks at Equal Exchange have just updated their fundraising program to include a new incentive…an EE-branded Fair Trade soccer ball! The largest worker-owned coffee roaster in the country, Equal Exchange offers tours to fundraising groups for coffee and chocolate tasting. In some areas (such as Portland, OR), they will also send a crew [...]
Fair Indigo’s new recycled fleece
September 10, 2007Our friends at Fair Indigo just released their Autumn catalog. They have a recycled, fair trade fleece jacket made from 50% recycled soda bottles by a fair trade cooperative in Costa Rica. How cool is that?! They are also carrying our children’s Fair Trade soccer balls. Grab one to go with your Fair Indigo fleece jacket [...]
12 ways you can support Fair Trade
September 4, 2007From our friends at Transfair…a cool Top 12 list of ways that each of us can support Fair Trade throughout our day. Here’s the short version, you can read the full version on their site: Vote. Ask. Host. Join. Celebrate. Learn. Donate. Introduce. Start. Fundraise. Give. Serve. Just the short version is enough to start [...]
