PG Tips has not gone with the Fairtrade Mark but has opted for RainForest Alliance Certification. Is this a good thing? As one of the comments I received points out, it has many ethical/environmental aims and is more easily available. Will the Fairtradeblogger now be being buying PG Tips and ‘doing his bit for the [...]

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Money, Money, Money - I’ve found a way that we can even make our money Fair Trade!
The Dutch weave fairtrade cotton into their 10 Euro notes for strength and quality.
Luckily, there are ways to make our money in the UK Fair Trade without having to pay with everything with Dutch Euros! We can invest our [...]

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Easter is very early this year - almost justifying all the supermarkets filling their shelves with Easter eggs on Boxing Day for a change.
With that in mind, here are some ideas for having a Fair Trade Easter:
 

Easter Eggs - Divine has a fabulous range and most of the supermarkets have some eggs, but my favourite [...]

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This is just a quick post, due to teething problems with the voting polls, I am trying out a different polling system.
If you have already voted, could you quickly re-submit your vote?
But for those who haven’t, it provides a perfect opportunity to fill in the survey…

Which Fairtrade products will you buy during Fairtrade Fortnight?

Chocolate

Fruit

Tea

Coffee

Clothes

Other

Add [...]

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To provide a more masculine post after the tales of fabrics and sewing, I think it’s time to review a Fairtrade Beer.
BeeWyched is a honey’d ale brewed using Fairtrade Chilean Honey and Fairtrade sugar from Malawi.  And the good news is that it’s available from several supermarkets.
It has a smooth, sweet honey taste and I [...]

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If you really want to push the boundaries of Fairtrade, why not make your own!
Our son needs a new duvet cover, and we have been looking for the Fair Trade options.  There are plain (boring) white ones , tie-dye batik ones and some more conventional patterned ones.  But none are exactly what we are looking for…
So, [...]

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Surprise! I have a confession to make… on Thursday, I found myself in… Starbucks!  I’ll explain why later…
Success!  On Wednesday, I bought the Fairtrade individual coffee filters and Earl Grey tea bags from Marks and Spencers.  I can now call my workplace semi-Fairtrade. 
The individual coffee filters are very nice (strength 3), but I can tell [...]

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Why am I doing this? Fair Trade t-shirts!
Why is finding Fair Trade t-shirts so hard? I’d noticed some plain ones in a fashion catalogue and really wanted one with [...]

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