Fair Trade Your Supermarket: Who’s Involved?
Green America is a non-profit organization with a mission to harness economic power—the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace—to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society. Green America serves the Fair Trade community as public educators, encouraging people to support Fair Trade while providing them the means to do so. We encourage using your spending power to influence the market and help reshape the global economy to one that works for all people and the planet. To learn more about our Fair Trade program please visit www.FairTradeAction.org.
Global Exchange is both a human rights organization and a Fair Trade retail store with locations in San Francisco, Washington, DC, Portland, and online. Global Exchange’s Fair Trade Campaign is a national network of individuals who take fun and creative actions to advocate for Fair Trade certified products in their communities. Global Exchange also offers Fair Trade curricula to educators and organizes Reality Tours that enable participants to experience Fair Trade first-hand. To receive updates from Global Exchange’s Fair Trade Program, sign up for their newsletter >>
Based in Sugar Land, Texas, Wholesome Sweeteners is a young company with generations of experience and expertise behind it. In addition to bringing the best organic natural, unrefined sweeteners to the North American market, Wholesome pioneered the certification process for Fair Trade CertifiedTM sugar and honey. Today, Wholesome Sweeteners is the category leader in Fair Trade Certified, organic and natural sugars, syrups, nectars and honeys produced from nature’s best resources.
Ben & Jerry’s has a progressive, nonpartisan social mission that seeks to meet human needs and eliminate injustices in local, national and international communities by integrating those concerns into day-to-day business activities. The company’s focus is on children and families, the environment and sustainable agriculture on family farms. Ben & Jerry’s is dedicated to Fair Trade and recently announced that all of its ice cream flavors will be certified Fair Trade by 2013.
Green Mountain Coffee believes in using the power of business to make the world a better place. Each step on the long road from tree to cup gives us an opportunity to create better coffee, and a better world. From carefully sourcing and roasting the highest quality beans, to empowering employees and protecting the environment, we focus on what’s important. Our goal is to create truly inspired coffee that’s environmentally sound, socially just, and undeniably delicious. Coffee lovers who ask for Fair Trade Certified™ and organic coffee may not realize it, but they are helping the world maintain a long-term supply of high-quality beans. In 2000, we were among the first U.S. roasters to sell Fair Trade Certified™ coffee. We now offer one of the largest selections of double-certified, Fair Trade organic coffees.
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