Seasons become an interesting concept when one lives in places without them. Living in Florida means drifting through the months, only knowing that it’s summer when the school zone lights are no longer blinking on my way to work. So I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge that summer has arrived, even in Florida,[…]
Here at Global Crafts, we’re avoidists. We try to take the path of least resistance to keep our blood pressures low. So as we learned about the laws and regulations of importing and distributing products for children, we did what we thought we should do — run. Anything we had with small parts clearly were[…]
My 98-year-old mother, Bea, always told me to never leave the house without wearing earrings. Most mothers would say makeup but the women in our family have always had an affection for earrings. Bea loves Fair Trade earrings, the bigger and brighter, the better. When someone compliments her on her earrings, she proudly says, “These were handmade by women in Chile”[…]
I remember my first Earth Day celebration. A little late to the dance (the first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970), it was April 22, 1975 and it pretty much centered around skipping our college classes and laying out on the HUB lawn. I’m sure there were some glass bottles and cans not being recycled[…]
A popular T-shirt of returned Peace Corps volunteers says “Some see the glass half full, others half empty. A PCV sees a shower.” It’s safe to say this unusual outlook on the world helps explain why RPCVs are often drawn to Fair Trade. You might not be able to pick them out at the Fair[…]
While we might send a valentine to our grandmother, we all know that not just the state of Virginia but Valentine’s Day is for lovers. If you don’t want to center your store display around hearts (and there are a lot of fair trade heart-shaped products out there!), here are some products you may want to[…]
So many of our fair trade wholesaler friends are deep into “the season.” I’m not sure if the leaves change colors, the flowers bloom, or the kids are out of school but I do know that many fair traders will be flying to exotic locales (New York, San Francisco, Atlanta, Chicago) in search of capturing[…]