New Coop America shopping guide | Fair Trade Sports




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Coop America’s new href="http://www.coopamerica.org/PDF/GuideFairTrade.pdf">Guide to
Fair Trade
(PDF) was recently released for both consumers and
Fair Trade advocates.

The Guide
features descriptions of national and international Fair Trade products
(such as our Fair
Trade soccer balls
) with an extensive directory of businesses
and organizations offering those products.

In addition to general information on Fair Trade, there are personal
testimonials and suggestions how to involve yourself more as a consumer
in the overall Fair Trade movement.  I liked the step-by-step
plan of action for mobilizing consumers and local producers, such as
hosting Fair Trade events and petitioning local supermarkets to carry
more Fair Trade products.

This is a great tool to empower consumers! The more consumer demand for
Fair Trade, the more people we help around the world!



4 Responses to “New Coop America shopping guide”

  1. 1 Jessi

    If anyone would like to order a copy or box of copies of these Guides to distribute in your community e-mail fairtrade@coopamerica.org. They are free! We are just asking for a small donation to cover shipping costs–get yours today!

  2. 2 Will

    Thanks for this heads up on the new shopping guide. You do have a 404 not found on the link to the PDF file though. For anyone trying to follow the link, it can be fixed by removing “www . fairtradesports . com/” which is preceding the correct link to the Co-Op America site.

    You have a great company started here. One question, though… why do you not sell basketballs yet?

    -Will

  3. 3 Scott James

    And thank you for the heads up on the broken links, Will. We just upgraded yesterday to the newest release of Wordpress (our blog platform) and obviously failed to test everything before turning it live!

    :)

    Basketballs coming soon. The initial order went straight to Gaiam as they were the first of our retailers to order the new basketball design. Stay tuned!

    - Scott

  4. 4 Will

    Great! Since you are also using WordPress, I would suggest using the subscribe to comments plugin. Makes it much easier for people who might comment to know when there is a response.

    http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/

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