One of the biggest lessons we can teach our children is respect – respect for themselves, respect for their friends and global peers, and respect for their environment. Respect lies at the core of the Fair Trade movement.
Cindy Hughes, a teacher and advocate of Fair Trade, wrote us recently to tell us how she’s reached [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Blog Action Day 2008: fighting poverty
October 15, 2008We all know that blogging has become a huge social networking tool used by all sorts of businesses and private writers to showcase ideas, events and news. Blogs can be used to help spread advocacy and awareness about international issues.
We use the Fair Trade Sports blog for spreading the movements of Fair Trade, abolition, and [...]
Stories that spread (and sell)
October 11, 2008I’m reading through an advance copy of Seth Godin’s new book called Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us. As usual, it’s quite good. I’ve been a fan of Godin since my high tech days, even sending him a soccer ball when we first launched Fair Trade Sports two years ago.
Godin talks alot about marketing; [...]
Autumn means indoor soccer!
October 9, 2008September 22 marked the first day of Autumn, but today it feels like it really arrived. Seemingly overnight our temperatures dropped and our leaves began turning color. And the sun is setting a little earlier every night (ugh).
Such drastic change outside doesn’t hinder the most serious players from pursuing their green dreams, though. At this [...]
