I bet many of you didn’t know that Four Corners has an award winning Fair Trade Education Program? Yes, that’s right. One that is complete with basic curriculum resources, a Speakers’ Bureau, and plenty of films from our free lending library that make teaching fair trade in the classroom more than easy. As our teachers…
For the last entry in our spotlight on Domestic Fair Trade, we would love to share a recipe with you, utilizing DFT lentils, available at your local grocery co-op. When I made this lentil salad for the World Fair Trade Day Crawl after party, it was a huge hit. Made with Frontier Co-op lentils and…
For the second post in our series on Domestic Fair Trade, we wanted to bring you five of our favorite products that highlight the growing market of fair trade items harvested and produced right here in the U.S. of A. As we approach the July 4th holiday, let’s celebrate our small farmers and crafters as…
We love learning and think education is the key to growing the fair trade movement in our own community and beyond. While Four Corners specializes in selling products from fair trade cooperatives in other countries, lately we have been talking a lot about domestic fair trade (DFT). We would love to share our three part…
As a follow-up to our blog post earlier this week regarding last year’s tragedy at the Rana Plaza factory in Bangledesh, we wanted to share our favorite alternatives for ethically responsible and sustainable clothing from companies that we think are doing it right. Focused on making products that care for the earth and treat people…
The collapse of the Rana plaza in Dhaka, Bangladesh was for many Americans, a wake up call. As the death toll kept rising and this disaster quickly became the worst in the history of the garment industry. After weeks of rescue crews working around the clock, the final count was 1,133, with more than 2,500…