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I was reading one of our vendors' blogs (Handmade Expressions - The Socially Responsible Way), and saw this. I liked it. So now I'm sharing it with you. Enjoy.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Friday, May 9, 2008
It's World Fair Trade Day
Tomorrow (Saturday May 10) is World Fair Trade Day. It kinda snuck up on us, so sadly we didn't have time to put together an event of our own (but I have big plans for WFTD '09).
But not to worry! We will still be at AN event tomorrow! It's called Pangea Day and it's a global event celebrating international unity through film. It'll be at the UTC Benwood Auditorium, and we'll be there with a booth, and maybe even some free coffee and chocolate.
See, part of World Fair Trade Day this year is that the big fair trade organizations are teaming up to promote the "fair trade break." They're trying to set the world record for the biggest ever coffee break, so they want everyone participating in WFTD to pause at 3pm Eastern time to consume something made from fairly traded ingredients. That means that chocolate counts!
So maybe we'll bring some of our wonderful Equal Exchange coffees and chocolates to share with everyone who comes to Pangea Day.
But not to worry! We will still be at AN event tomorrow! It's called Pangea Day and it's a global event celebrating international unity through film. It'll be at the UTC Benwood Auditorium, and we'll be there with a booth, and maybe even some free coffee and chocolate.
See, part of World Fair Trade Day this year is that the big fair trade organizations are teaming up to promote the "fair trade break." They're trying to set the world record for the biggest ever coffee break, so they want everyone participating in WFTD to pause at 3pm Eastern time to consume something made from fairly traded ingredients. That means that chocolate counts!
So maybe we'll bring some of our wonderful Equal Exchange coffees and chocolates to share with everyone who comes to Pangea Day.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
La Paz Market fun
Well, it's been well over a month since our last post. Shame on us. And thanks to you, loyal blog reader, for not forgetting about us!
I don't have much of substance to say at the moment, only that we had fun participating the Chattanooga Market this weekend. This week's market was sponsored by La Paz De Dios, a great non-profit here in town that does wonderful work helping Hispanics integrate into the local community. One of the stipulations of being part of the Chattanooga Market is that the artist who produced the goods must also be present, and I think they want things that are produced locally. Being a fair trade importer, we can't really have our artists present, and our goods sure as heck aren't produced locally. This kills us, because we'd love to be in the Market on a regular basis. This time we were lucky enough to be included under La Paz' auspice, since we do work with Latin American countries, and we ended up giving them 10% of our sales.
The atmosphere was great fun, and everyone had a good time -- Latin music and dancing, awesome burritos, and the usual faces behind artists' tables.
Now we're trying to figure out how to get into Riverbend's marketplace.
I don't have much of substance to say at the moment, only that we had fun participating the Chattanooga Market this weekend. This week's market was sponsored by La Paz De Dios, a great non-profit here in town that does wonderful work helping Hispanics integrate into the local community. One of the stipulations of being part of the Chattanooga Market is that the artist who produced the goods must also be present, and I think they want things that are produced locally. Being a fair trade importer, we can't really have our artists present, and our goods sure as heck aren't produced locally. This kills us, because we'd love to be in the Market on a regular basis. This time we were lucky enough to be included under La Paz' auspice, since we do work with Latin American countries, and we ended up giving them 10% of our sales.
The atmosphere was great fun, and everyone had a good time -- Latin music and dancing, awesome burritos, and the usual faces behind artists' tables.
Now we're trying to figure out how to get into Riverbend's marketplace.
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