Fair Trade/Green
What is Fair Trade?
Fair Trade means an equitable and fair partnership between businesses and organizations in the developed world and producers in the developing world. Fair trade contributes to sustainable, long-term relationships with artisans and producers, enabling them to improve their lives.
Why choose Fair Trade?
1. Economic Empowerment – By making the choice to buy fair trade goods you help provide health care, education and a better lifestyle for artisans around the world.
2. Altruistic - We are all one village. By doing our part to help each other we make the world a better place in which to live.
3. Environmental Sustainability- Sharing our earth’s resources and finding ways to use and reuse these resources wisely and cleanly benefits everyone.
4. Educational – Learning about the artisans’ culture and lives enhances our enjoyment of their work, and preserves their cultural identities.
What does Green mean?
It's a term that is widely used to describe a product that is designed in an environmentally sensitive manner, i.e. with minimal impact to the environment.
What does Sustainable mean?
The concept of sustainability can be traced back to President Theodore Roosevelt who stated in 1910, “ I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us. ”
Sustainability has three interdependent dimensions relating to the environment, economics and society, often referred to as the triple bottom line.
What is Eco-friendly?
Eco-friendly implies little or no impact on the native eco-system.
Fair Trade means an equitable and fair partnership between businesses and organizations in the developed world and producers in the developing world. Fair trade contributes to sustainable, long-term relationships with artisans and producers, enabling them to improve their lives.
Why choose Fair Trade?
1. Economic Empowerment – By making the choice to buy fair trade goods you help provide health care, education and a better lifestyle for artisans around the world.
2. Altruistic - We are all one village. By doing our part to help each other we make the world a better place in which to live.
3. Environmental Sustainability- Sharing our earth’s resources and finding ways to use and reuse these resources wisely and cleanly benefits everyone.
4. Educational – Learning about the artisans’ culture and lives enhances our enjoyment of their work, and preserves their cultural identities.
What does Green mean?
It's a term that is widely used to describe a product that is designed in an environmentally sensitive manner, i.e. with minimal impact to the environment.
What does Sustainable mean?
The concept of sustainability can be traced back to President Theodore Roosevelt who stated in 1910, “ I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us. ”
Sustainability has three interdependent dimensions relating to the environment, economics and society, often referred to as the triple bottom line.
What is Eco-friendly?
Eco-friendly implies little or no impact on the native eco-system.
