One way to research products with safer ingredients is to check out GoodGuide.com. The site’s health information can help you determine what’s in a produc and whether the ingredients pose any potential health hazards. It also includes information on products’ environmental and social impact. [...]
Pants for Poverty work with over 7,000 tribal cotton farmers of India who run and own their own organization, the world’s first farmer owned marketing company for fairtrade and organic cotton. Your Pants to Poverty purchase supports change for India’s poorest farmers, most of whom are in “Suicide Belt,” an area where on average 26 farmers commit suicide every day due to unfair trade. [...]
Given America’s addiction to coffee, a few alterations to your daily caffeine fix can have a big impact on how farmers treat the land where coffee is grown. The nice thing about words like “organic” and “fair trade” is that they make people who care about the Earth also care about buying a particular product. [...]
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