The resources below complement the December 2002 Adventurous Life newsletter.
You
can also visit other recommended links and resources in a variety of areas
(see the main resources page for topics).
Please
feel free to share your favorite books, articles & web sites -
send
me your suggestions!
Fair Trade
OxFam
International
What is Fair Trade Coffee? Includes a growing list of Fair Trade retailers.
Global
Exchange
An excellent resource for activism and information, including where to
get Fair Trade products.
International
Federation for Alternative Trade
Includes information about sourcing products as well as a bibliography
for further research into fair trade information.
TransFair
USA
Working "to increase consumer awareness about the importance of Fair Trade,
thereby building consumer demand for Fair Trade Certified products." Good
resource links, including retail outlets for Fair Trade coffee.
Fair
Trade Federation
Site offers links to online and retail shops that offer fair trade products
(as well as wholesalers for those of you buying for your own stores).
Ethical
Trading Initiative
Has information on sourcing, as well as a resource section with an excellent
list of links to other useful web sites.
Sweatshops
Clean
Clothes Campaign
A great resource for learning about international labor standards, action
campaigns, and monitoring of the garment industry.
Behind
the Label
Home of the Don't
Buy Gap campaign, this site provides a good analysis of what goes
on behind the scenes to make your clothing.
Students
Against Sweatshops
An organization of students on over 200 campuses across the nation mobilizing
to hold companies accountable for the pay and treatment of workers who
make their products...and what you can do to get involved.
SweatX,
No Sweat,
and American
Apparel
Anti-sweatshops SweatX and No Sweat produce full lines of union-made casual
active wear. Non-union American Apparel manufactures and distributes "sweatshop
free" t-shirts.
Justice
Clothing Company
These folks have done the label-reading for you. They carry only "union-made
and sweatshop-free apparel" ranging from fleece, jeans, and jackets
to (coming soon) professional wear and your "basic black dress."
Clothes
for a Change
An awareness-raising campaign by the Organic Consumers Association ("promotes
food safety, organic farming and sustainable agriculture practices in
the U.S. and internationally [by providing] consumers with factual information
they can use to make informed food choices").
Bangor
Clean Clothes Resource Center
This grassroots project has changed ethical guidelines and state purchasing
laws in Maine and shares information about how you can organize and act
in your local community to do the same.
Where can you shop?
Co-op
America's Green Pages
An online directory of environmentally friendly clothing options. (Did
you know that half of the agri-chemicals used yearly in the U.S. are for
non-organic cotton? Or that hemp requires no chemical pesticides or herbicides
to cultivate?)
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