Go Green: Get More Fair-Trade Products
Fair-trade is about fair prices, decent working conditions, clean environment, local sustainability, and fair terms of trade for farmers and industrial workers in the developing countries.
Fair trade accounts for less than one percent of world trade. It directly benefits about eight hundred thousand producers and their families (or more than 5 000 000 people in about fifty countries) and enables them to meet their needs and everyday requirements for food, clothes, health care, housing, and education. However, broadening the fair-trade market to embrace new cooperatives in developing countries relies on demand, which in turn depends upon the awareness of consumers in developed countries such as the United States, Japan and European countries.
Don't stop with fair-trade coffee and tea. Broaden your purchasing to include other widely available fair-trade products, such as Jasmine & Chamomile Tea, bananas,coconut chocolate, raw honey, orange juice, pineapple, rice, hot souse, sugar, oriental rugs, clothes and many others. Just check out the Greenheart Shop web site to get more information.
It is easy to think that one small, damaging action does not endanger the Earth's future. In practice, however, such actions are never isolated events! It is the repetition and accumulation of all these small acts that takes on dramatic proportions. In the same way, a small, isolated gesture to preserve the environment will not improve matters on its own. It is all the simple gestures, repeated every day by millions of people that will have a significant effect when added together.
Contributed by Harry Cotten, Dumpster Rentals Depot .
- Published: 2014-04-13T18:23:59-07:00
- Author: Harry Cotten
