Posted by Tex Dworkin in Fair Trade News & Views, Fair Trade Roundups, Global Exchange Fair Trade Campaign, Global Exchange Store Updates on 10th November, 2011 | 1 Comment
How are the Fair Trade and Occupy movements converging? How can you provide input to Fair Trade USA around their recent changes? Find out both plus more in our latest Fair Trade Roundup.
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Posted by Admin in Fair Trade News & Views, Global Exchange Fair Trade Campaign, Global Exchange Store Updates on 27th October, 2011 | No Comments
The Board of Directors of Global Exchange is pleased to announce Ms. Carleen Pickard as the organization’s new Executive Director. Carleen will follow Kirsten Moller’s twenty-three year legacy of leadership and compassion. We are collectively elated about the new energy, new ideas, and new skills that Carleen brings to Global Exchange. Her long history of organizing, both nationally and internationally, allows Global Exchange to continue and expand our near quarter-century of activism. Carleen will complement our “people-to-people” traditions–advocating for progressive domestic change and credible alternatives to corrupt global-economic and political policies. Join us in welcoming Carleen Pickard. Walter Turner, Board President
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Posted by Anna Kallett in Global Exchange Store Updates on 12th October, 2011 | 3 Comments
Upcycling is a great way to convert waste materials into useful products of high quality, keeping plastic and other materials that are non-biodegradable out of landfills. Stop by the Global Exchange Fair Trade Store in San Francisco and check out our new upcycled products, from plastic jewelry to clutches made out of cassette tapes!
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Posted by Kylie Nicole-Nealis in Fair Trade News & Views, Global Exchange Fair Trade Campaign, Global Exchange Store Updates on 3rd October, 2011 | No Comments
As we move into fall and the weather gets cooler and the leaves start to cover the ground, we have something very important to celebrate: Fair Trade. Of course the Fair Trade movement is working to improve the lives of farmers, artisans, and their families all over the world all year long — but this »
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Posted by Admin in Global Exchange Store Updates on 29th August, 2011 | No Comments
Bernard is a Haitian artisan who creates beautiful works of art out of re-purposed oil drums. And you’ll never guess how the oil is removed from the drums before the metal can be formed into beautiful sculptures!
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Posted by Admin in Fair Trade News & Views, Global Exchange Store Updates, Guest Posts on 15th August, 2011 | No Comments
The Global Exchange Fair Trade Store in San Francisco hosted a Fair Trade Talk with Gilbert Ramirez from CoopeAgri in Costa Rica and Courtney Lang from Fair Trade USA. Gilbert’s town Pérez Zeledón is the very first Fair Trade Town in Latin America. Hear how it went, and read perspectives from a Fair Trade coffee producer.
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Posted by Admin in Fair Trade News & Views, Global Exchange Store Updates on 9th August, 2011 | No Comments
Fair Trade jewelry has become a popular item sold here in the US that has provided benefits to artisans throughout many impoverished nations of the world, allowing them to continue traditional methods of handcrafting jewelry with dignity. Yet while the impact on these artisan’s lives is undoubtedly significant, certain ethical questions have been raised about Fair Trade jewelry as well as other items crafted from metals.
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Posted by Anna Kallett in Global Exchange Store Updates on 8th August, 2011 | 7 Comments
Shoes and sweatshops. Two words too often connected. Finding ethical footwear is a challenge, but you’ll be happy to know that Global Exchange’s Fair Trade Store in San Francisco is introducing a new line of beautiful and ethically designed espadrilles from a worker-owned factory in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Learn more about these reclaimed factories at an in-store film screening of “The Take,” this Wednesday at 6pm!
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Posted by Tex Dworkin in Fair Trade News & Views, Fair Trade Roundups, Global Exchange Fair Trade Campaign, Global Exchange Store Updates on 27th July, 2011 | No Comments
A reality t.v. competition winner brings Fair Trade jewelry to the market, the Global Exchange Fair Trade Store in San Francisco introduces new Fair Trade shoe line, and Fair Trade activists get creative to pressure Hershey to go Fair Trade. It’s Fair Trade Roundup time again.
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Posted by Anna Kallett in Global Exchange Store Updates on 15th July, 2011 | 4 Comments
Summer Saturday Specials! Every Saturday in the month of July, the Global Exchange Fair Trade Stores in San Francisco and Berkeley are offering 15% OFF savings on featured clothing, scarves, tablecloths & kitchenware, AND much more!
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