Celebrating Fair Trade Month at Whole Foods Palo Alto

What better way to celebrate Fair Trade Month than at the Whole Foods Store in Palo Alto. Many shoppers dropped by to sample a selection of Whole Foods Fair Trade products from Alter Eco Chocolate with quinoa to Allegro Coffee from Mexico and becoming aware of how purchasing Fair Trade products guarantees small sale growers and artisans a fair price for their products thereby improving their lives and protecting the environment.

Fair Trade Event at Whole Foods Palo Alto

October is Fair Trade Month. What better way to celebrate than
at the Whole Foods Store in Palo Alto. Please drop by and learn
how purchasing Fair Trade products guarantees small sale growers
and artisans a fair price for their harvest and products thereby
improving their lives and protecting the environment. Sample a
selection of Whole Foods Fair Trade products from coffee to
popcorn to quinoa.

Date       Saturday, October 22, 2011 at 11:00am

Address	774 Emerson St, Palo Alto, CA 94062
Phone	650.326.8676

Ten Thousand Villages hosts Fair Trade Faire

Ten Thousand Villages and Lincoln Glen  is hosting the
Fair Trade International Gift Faire on Friday, October
28 and Saturday, October 29. Please attend and
support Fair Trade and these wonderful artisans.

Grounds for Change is CarbonFree Certified

Fair Trade and the Environment

Fair Trade, Shade Grown and Organic Grounds for Change coffee
company has become the first CarbonFree Certified coffee roaster.
To make the every part of their business sustainable, they have
submitted to a formal carbon emissions audit with every step of
their production. The analysis includes the organic cultivation of
coffee plant, the sun drying of coffee beans, the transport of beans
to dry mill for hauling and coffee packaging materials, labels and
shipping boxes.
Please see http://www.groundsforchange.com/learn/carbon_neutral.php
and http://www.carbonfund.org for more information

Silicon Valley Fair Trade Meeting March 2

Join us for an organizational/informational

meeting of Silicon Valley Fair Trade, a 

new organization we hope will bring together 

people interested in advancing social and

economic justice worldwide through fair 

trade practices.

We’re interested in spreading the understanding 

of fair trade issues, encouraging our neighbors

and friends to purchase fair trade items, and 

increasing the stores that sell fair trade items 

in our area.By doing this, we will be helping 

people who work hard for a living and 

sometimes are treated unfairly, paid unjustly, 

or not at all.

We’re looking forward to meeting you and joining

with you!  

Bill Perry and Pat Plant

siliconvalleyfairtrade@gmail.com, pat@sanjosepby.org