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Go Holiday Shopping with Your Global Girlfriend

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Global Girlfriend is an online fair trade store that sells handmade gifts made by women's non-profit programs and cooperatives. Global Girlfriend's founder, Stacey Edgar, received a Microsoft Start Something Amazing Awards Honorable Mention , and was named the 2005 Aveeno Woman with Organic Style. holiday shopping fair trade

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Fair Trade Certified: An Interview with Paul Rice of TransFair USA

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At the heart of Fair Trade is the notion of direct trade, kind of like a farmer's market gone global. PR: I was in Brazil a few months ago, and in this village in Brazil there are about eighty or ninety families that are all very small coffee growers. Now, three hundred bucks a year doesn't sound like a lot of money, right?