Saturday, November 24, 2007

Great tips for socially conscious gifts including fair trade chocolate


Listed below are some online sites to shop for socially-conscious gifts, including fair-trade chocolate. Great gift! When buying chocolate supports conscientious producers in developing nations, everyone gets to feel good. Most or all of the items available on the websites below are certified fair trade. This means that the workers who produced them were paid a living wage in safe working conditions.

Global Exchange Online: http://store.gxonlinestore.org/index.html

Grounds for Change (coffee and chocolate): www.groundsforchange.com

Ten Thousand Villages: www.tenthousandvillages.com/home.php

Source: "Footnotes." November 2007. The newsletter of the North Carolina Sierra Club.

Key words:: socially conscious gifts, fair trade gifts, labor friendly gifts, fair trade chocolate

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