Celebrate Fair Trade

As the holidays start approaching, it's a good idea to begin looking for some great eco-friendly gifts. How about buying some fair trade gifts? Fair trade is an organized social movement and market-based approach to empowering developing country producers and promoting sustainability. The movement advocates the payment of a fair price as well as social and environmental standards in areas related to the production of a wide variety of goods.

Fair trade's intent is to work with international workers and producers in order to help them move from a position of vulnerability to one of security through self-sufficiency.

Here are some websites to check out that sell fair trade goods:
www.globalexchangestore.org
www.tenthousandvillages.com/home.php
www.globalstewards.org/fairtradeshops.htm