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Articles about fair-trade baskets (0-21 of 21)
- Creative, Trendy Wedding Favors Get Personal For 2010
By: Beth Jones | - We all know that today's brides feel free to mix it up. You'll see electronic RSVPs in place of card stock, and you might find a handful of tiered key lime pies instead of the traditional French confection on the cake table. Favors are another spot where wedding couples put their personal spin on the proceedings.
The last few years have seen an explosion of favors to match the explosion in theme weddings -- and to suit all those weddings that simply don't fit any rubber stamp.
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- Buying Ethical Gifts As An Alternative For Christmas
By: Chriss Tyrrell | - It won't be long and the Christmas season will once again be upon us. The good thing this season though, is that over the course of the past year the ethical gifts industry has only continued to expand. This of course means that this time around, there are just that many more choices when it comes time to shop.
More good news is that intensified competition for your business means that prices are now lower as selection has also expanded as well. So now it's pick and choose from just ...
Tags: Fair, Trade, Jewellery, Clothing, Accessories, Soft Furnishings, Fairtrade Products
- Fair-trade Gifts Help Improve Lives
By: tree1110 | - If you purchase a fair trade item, you can feel good about yourself. Fair trade means that you are paying a fair wage to an individual or community, usually in a third world country, for an item they produce. We've all heard about fair trade coffee, but fair trade also refers to many other products produced by countries from around the world. Textiles, baskets, pottery, jewelry, glassware, beaded items, recycled wire...even recycled flip flops are made into items that are beautiful and useful. I ...
Tags: fair-trade, fair-trade baskets, fair-trade textiles, magazine baskets, fair-trade gift ideas, pillow
- Groovy Baby; America's Love Affair With The Peasant Dress
By: tree1110 | - Long live the 60's and 70's and the free and easy clothing...
Day of the Dead. Carnivale. Cinco de Mayo. All of these are normal days to don your festive Mexican Embroidered Peasant Blouses and Dresses. But what about just everyday? These work for the everyday, out and about, just relaxing days as well. Mexican embroidered peasant blouses and dresses are all cotton...some are cotton broadcloth, some are the heavier woven cotton, but all are cotton and meticulously hand embroidered w ...
Tags: handembroidered mexican peasant dresses, mexican peasant blouses, cotton peasant blouses, cotton dress
- Amazing Choices & Options In Today's Ethical Gifts
By: Chriss Tyrrell | - Unions busted. Manufacturing outsourced to third world countries. International environmental regulations relaxed or eliminated and the list just goes on and on. It really does seem that its now gotten to the point where if you grab something off the shelf, you just don't know who or what was abused during its production, packaging transport.
Modern Slavery Still Condoned By the US, Canada and the UK
For instance, did you know that North Korea has a manufacturin ...
Tags: Fair, Trade, Jewellery, clothing, accessories, soft furnishings, fairtrade products
- Gift The Eco-friendly Way!
By: Jennifer Lobo | - Gifts and the act of gifting foster a sense of bonding between people and are an essential touch point in our lives. Be it between relatives, friends or acquaintances. It symbolizes trust and affection and one tends to choose gifts very carefully bearing in mind the recipients likes. Now, wouldnt it be great if the gift you buy positively touches the lives of the producer & the environment besides being loved by the recipient?
That is what Eco-friendly gifts are all about! ...
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- A Great Gift Idea
By: Boake Moore | - The number of homeless people in Atlanta in September was estimated at about 6,000, compared with about 2,800 earlier this year, according to the AJC. It expects the number to increase further, citing a weakening economy that is forcing a growing number of companies out of businesses.
''With worsening economic conditions, more and more marginal workers are losing their jobs, resulting in an increase of homeless people,'' the city said.
Civic groups and other volun ...
Tags: gourmet coffee, holiday gifts, gifts, Christmas gifts, homeless children, coffee beans, African coffee, gourmet coffee beans, children
- A School Fundraiser That Will Change The World
By: Amie Nelson | - Make a list of everything you can buy today with one dollar. Short list, isn't it? Yet more than 3 billion people in the world exist on less than a dollar a day.
Two mothers were so concerned by this reality they created Global Goods Partners - a nonprofit organization that ensures income from goods made in the developing world is received directly by those who produced them. Their model is unique, as it gives women from disadvantaged regions access to new markets through school ...
Tags: Women, Mothers, Fair Trade, Global Poverty, School Fundraisers
- Tea The Ultimate Alternative To Coffee
By: Jeffrey Lorien | - Coffee is one of Americas favorite energy boosters. With 70-100mg of caffeine per cup, it can give you the liquid lift youre looking for when youre trying to pull an all-night study session or you just need to wake up and start your day. Though coffee can be very tasty and comes in several hundred flavors and styles including various mochas, cappuccinos and espressos its not as healthy for you as tea. Tea, in general, is a good thing, but right now well talk about green tea ...
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- Choosing The Right Tea For You
By: Jeffrey Lorien | - The verdict is in: Tea is good for you.
Now, researchers continue to study tea and its healthy constituents such as polyphenols, tannin, catechins and other antioxidants. The science is progressing on parallel tracks in research institutes and universities around the world, quantifying and qualifying the effects of tea on cancer, high blood pressure, cardiovascular health, microcirculation and even weight loss.
Beyond the health benefits, there are purely personal (and plea ...
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- What Everyone Should Know About The Health Benefits Of Tea
By: Jeffrey Lorien | - For literally thousands of years, humans have extolled the nutritional and health benefits of tea. The tea plant Camellia Sinensis is the source of all teas in the world. These include green, oolong, white, and black tea as well as the Chinese Tea known as Pu-erh Tea, which is prepared by fermentation of tea leaves. Both formal scientific studies and anecdotal evidence suggest that tea really can work wonders for the body. Heres how:
Tea May Boost the Metabolism
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- The Secret To Using Oolong Tea To Lose Weight
By: Jeffrey Lorien | - In addition to being a pleasure to drink, Oolong tea offers a host of health benefits. Tannins, polyphenols, phytochemicals, caffeine, L-theanine amino acids, and other trace compounds found in Oolong tea can boost overall health in literally dozens of ways. To those that like to keep in shape, or those of us who would just like to shed a pound or ten, one of its most exciting benefits is the positive effect it can have can have on losing weight.
When naturally prepared it is p ...
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- Shopping In Dubai: A Classifieds Guide
By: Sotiropoulos George | - Among the many charms of Dubai is shopping. Whether it's haggling over Persian carpets in the centuries-old souks or shopping for French perfumes in the air-conditioned hush of the most modern department store, Dubai offers every shopper a great experience. And as an open port with low import duties, prices are very attractive. Trade is at the heart of Middle-eastern culture, so the variety of products is staggering.
So if you're moving for that new job in Dubai , or just spendin ...
Tags: Dubai classifieds, Dubai shopping, Dubai souvenirs, Dubai, Dubai properties
- Saving Santa - Last Minute Corporate Gift Ideas
By: Titus Hoskins | - Every smart manager or boss knows good company morale is priceless. They know rewarding clients, customers or employees for their continued patronage or hard work makes good business sense.
The holiday season is the perfect occasion where goodwill can help build company spirit and continued patronage. You should spare no expense in presenting a nice token of your appreciation for all the hard work and loyalty displayed throughout the year.
However, playing Sant ...
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- Handy Corporate Gift Ideas For This Holiday Season
By: Titus Hoskins | - The holiday season is a hectic time for companies. For those businesses in the retail trade it can prove to be your busiest time of the year with last minute orders, handling customers, hammering out holiday work schedules and meeting shipping deadlines. Finding the time to celebrate and the time to choose the best corporate gifts for your company can be a major chore.
Compounding the problem are all the social and family obligations your staff and workforce have to attend to at ...
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Social Web Results   25 Things That Can be Recycled into Gift Wrapping — The Budget Ecoist Shared By: budgetecoist - For example, if you’re giving a great bag of Fair Trade coffee, simply put it in a coffee mug. 9. Cut up grocery bags and decorate them 10.
 TransFair USA Shared By: fairtradeusa - Micro-loan programs funded by Fair Trade social premiums empower women to start their own businesses, develop leadership skills, and earn critical...
 Global Exchange :: Fair Trade and Socially Conscious Gifts Online :: Fair Trade Tea Shared By: GXFairTradeChoc - Global Exchange sells fair trade socially conscious, sweatshop-free, environmentally sustainable crafts, eco-friendly gifts, recycled products,...
 Honolulu Academy of Arts Shared By: HONBLUE - Items are chosen so there is something to fit every budget, and most contemporary crafts are Fair Trade. But the event has another goal: to preserve...
 squishable.com: they're giant round fuzzy stuffed animals. hug them Shared By: kathall - Share your Save the World - Squishable Charities and Fair Trade stuff! New Squishables - Vote on Squishable Designs! Squishy Travel Blog - Where in...
![]() Organic Egyptian Cotton Elf Doll - 11" : Taraluna Shared By: - The farm that grows our cotton and makes our apparel focuses on fair trade and provides a worldwide model community for organic agriculture along with...
- Creative, Trendy Wedding Favors Get Personal For 2006
By: Blake Kritzberg | - We all know that today's brides feel free to mix it up. You'll see electronic RSVPs in place of card stock, and you might find a handful of tiered key lime pies instead of the traditional French confection on the cake table. Favors are another spot where wedding couples put their personal spin on the proceedings.
The last few years have seen an explosion of favors to match the explosion in theme weddings -- and to suit all those weddings that simply don't fit any rubber stamp.
Tags: creative wedding favors, trendy wedding favors, starfish wedding, paua shell wedding
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