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Top 10 Accessories to Start a Discussion about the Environment

by globalcrafts on March 17, 2011 · No Comments

We have just completed this guide to 10 eco-chic products, the guide is both serious and fun. We hope that you will enjoy our picks, look great in them and more importantly feel confident talking about Fair trade and the environment.

It can be downloaded here

With the rise of markets such as China, comes shortages of basic raw materials. At the same time the environment is under pressure causing both draughts and floods. These and other factors have lead to significant increases in basic costs, from food, to raw materials and energy.

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Support Your Community By Shopping

by globalcrafts on March 1, 2011 · No Comments

SUPPORT YOUR COMMUNITY BY SHOPPING Gifts With Humanity launches March 1st 2011 with a new look and local community connection. Every purchase will support a US-based Good Cause in addition to the Fair Trade mission of selling handmade products from Artisans in 20 countries. With every purchase made, Gifts With Humanity will donate 10% of [...]

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Sneak Preview of Site Redesign

by admin on January 24, 2011 · 1 Comment

This is an early draft of our site redesign for GiftsWithHumanity.com. Among other things you may notice is that we intend to make the Good Cause Program an integral part of who we are. When we relaunch every purchase will directly benefit a US based good cause. Let us know about your good cause, we [...]

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Fair Trade Handicrafts face increase in Duty !

by globalcrafts on January 6, 2011 · 2 Comments

Fair Trade Handicrafts face increase in duty, due to a lack of action by congress. On January 1st 2011 the GSP Duty Free provisions to assist the poorest countries through trade expired. In the last few days of the last congress, an extension was approved by the House but rejected by the Senate, due to [...]

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Gift Wrapping

by admin on November 1, 2009 · No Comments

Yes it is true. Your favorite fair trade gifts can now be gift wrapped in fair trade, handmade, embroidered, luxury wrapping paper. OK, ok…The luxury might be a stretch, but this paper is so nice it comes in sheets, not rolls. That is, when we buy it, in comes in sheets. When you buy it, [...]

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Fair Trade Hits High Fashion

by admin on September 30, 2009 · 1 Comment

Just a few weeks ago our telephone wire bangles caught the eye of fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg. They asked us to overnight about a hundred bangles to her New York office. We didn’t think much of it, until we saw our bangles on every one of Diane Von Furstenberg’s runway models. Then we saw [...]

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Fair Trade An Exciting Way to Shop

by admin on September 10, 2009 · No Comments

Max Havelaar has a great video of shoppers gone wild in regular retail stores. I hope they continue to make videos like this.

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Fashionable Fair Trade

by admin on July 22, 2009 · No Comments

Last month People’s Magazine snapped this picture of Nicole Richie sporting a handbag made from a traditional Kutch textile. The photograph speaks towards several successes we can be proud of as a society. One interesting commentary the photograph gives is that the needlework traditions passed down from mother to daughter for generations in a remote [...]

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