Chances are you’ve heard of “fair trade” and have a vague idea of what it means — maybe you’ve even bought a bag of coffee or a bar of chocolate with a fair trade seal on it. How about skin care ...

Fair trade is a global movement that strives to provide standards for how products like food and clothing are grown, produced, and sold. These standards help ensure equitable trade by directly ...

Sustainable fashion has a definition that’s hard to pin down. While some say that wool is natural and biodegradable, others would argue that the amount of water, grain and deforestation required for ...

With rows filled with groceries and stores lined with promotions for their new sales, we often forget how the products we buy landed on our shelves. A large portion of the products we buy are at the ...

As I have met with fair trade factories and farms internationally, I have often heard, “When the certification auditors come, two-thirds of the workforce runs out the back door." This cheekily ...

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