Tag: Fair Trade | Natural Sustainable Living Chicago

Chicago Fair Trade Museum-themed cookies baked by the winner of last year’s Fair Trade Bake Off competition.

Chicago Fair Trade to Host Weeklong World Fair Trade Day Celebration

Apr 29, 2024

Throughout the week, Chicago Fair Trade will showcase many of the outstanding local businesses and initiatives that make Chicago a truly great fair trade city.

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Visit Unique Chicago Fair Trade Museum

Feb 27, 2023

The museum’s mission is to spread the message of fair trade to new audiences and educate visitors while encouraging and inspiring them to be fair trade advocates and supporters.

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Globalfest Party to Celebrate Fair Trade

Sep 30, 2022

The event will celebrate fair trade, an alternative business model focusing on a triple bottom line: people, planet and profits.

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Open House Chicago Fair Trade: World Fair Trade Day Celebration

Apr 29, 2022

In honor of World Fair Trade Day 2022, Chicago Fair Trade member businesses, organizations and allies are hosting events on May 14 throughout the city to showcase how they support economic and environmental justice.

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A woman in a black dress standing on stage with a screen in the background showing the words, Fashion Revolution.

Chicago Fair Trade Events Support Fair and Equitable Global Fashion System

Apr 08, 2022

During Fashion Revolution week, Chicago Fair Trade commemorates the lives of the 1,134 people that died on April 24, 2013 in Bangladesh, when the Rana Plaza apparel factory where they worked sewing fast fashion collapsed. Online an in-person events explore ways that we can all contribute to a more just, safe, and ethical apparel industry and support fair trade and ethical businesses that are raising the bar.

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Sacred Ground Store Offers Goods for the Soul

Feb 28, 2022 ● By Carrie Jackson

Sacred Ground, in Arlington Heights, is a unique shop where customers can find an assortment of items to soothe the body, mind and spirit, featuring products that are ethically sourced and crafted, and they feature artisans that produce small batch, organic and fair trade.

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Whitney Young High School’s Fair Trade Coffee Café

Chicago's Whitney Young High School Students Practice Fair Trade Activism

Feb 28, 2022 ● By Maya Westbrook, Lila Aspin and Vivian Miltner

Chicago Public Schools Whitney Young High School Fair Trade Club recently opened a coffee shop with help from Metropolis Coffee and Chicago Fair Trade. They sell Metropolis fair trade coffee and tea, plus fair trade hot chocolate to students and will donate any profits to mental health and workers rights organizations.

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Chicago Fair Trade Fundraiser

Sep 30, 2021

This event will honor WorldFinds and Nasreen Sheikh. All proceeds support Chicago Fair Trade to empower tens of thousands of low-income and marginalized workers, artisans and farmers from around the world to achieve a fulfilling and sustainable livelihood for themselves and their families.

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National Thrift Shop Day flyer with a person rummaging through clothes and some cartoon drawings of clothes

National Thrift Shop Day Celebration and Panel Discussion

Aug 11, 2021

The Chicago Conscious Closet Club will be celebrating National Thrift Shop Day with a panel discussion from 7 to 8 p.m., August 17, featuring some of their favorite local thrifters.

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The Worst is Over—Build Back Fairer

Apr 09, 2021

Chicago Fair Trade is sponsoring Build Back Fairer as part of World Fair Trade Day 2021 observed on May 8 with a three-part challenge to educate, activate and celebrate.

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Shop Small. Shop Local. Shop Early.

Sep 30, 2020 ● By Megy Karydes

Supporting small business and shopping local is more important than ever in this pandemic year. Fair trade products appeal to many customers that want to buy handmade items produced ethically, sustainably and traded fairly. Chicago Fair Trade offers suggestions to support local and fair trade shopping.

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Good Food Festival Helps Community Build Healthier, More Sustainable Food System

Mar 18, 2015

The three-day showcase for local and sustainably produced food — presented by the nonprofit group FamilyFarmed — culminates on Saturday, Ma...

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Celebrate Earth Month With These Earth-Friendly Products

Apr 22, 2014 ● By Megy Karydes

It’s Earth Month and that means breaking out that “eco chic” look. This morning, Natural Awakenings magazine Editor and Publisher Peggy Malecki shared these great finds on Good Day Chicago Fox 32 television this morning.

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