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Making a Fair Trade soccer ball
Ever wonder how your Green + Fair Trade Certified soccer ball is created? Here’s a quick visual tour from this past April:… more →
Fair Trade Sports | sustainable eco soccer balls and more
Faith-based organizations
fairtradesports wrote 1 week ago: Faith-based organizations are at the heart of the Fair Trade movement, and have been since Day One. … more →
Making a Fair Trade soccer ball
fairtradesports wrote 2 weeks ago: Ever wonder how your Green + Fair Trade Certified soccer ball is created? Here’s a quick visua … more →
Women in Pakistan
fairtradesports wrote 3 weeks ago: The New York Times recently published an article about the plight of women in Pakistan, focusing in … more →
Another producer profile
fairtradesports wrote 1 month ago: Brazia is 20 years old, unmarried and has been stitching soccer balls in the Chagelan stitching cent … more →
World Day for Decent Work
fairtradesports wrote 1 month ago: October 7 is World Day for Decent Work, a day we set aside to call attention to matters of Fair Trad … more →
Kicking off Fair Trade Month!
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fairtradesports wrote 2 months ago: Every year when October rolls around, the US-based Fair Trade Certified folks at TransFair USA engag … more →
Child labor in Pakistan
fairtradesports wrote 2 months ago: While the recent US Dept of Labor report on child labor in India stitching soccer balls was fairly t … more →
New report on child labor
fairtradesports wrote 2 months ago: The US Department of Labor recently released a report detailing the facts about child labor as it st … more →
Back to School Curriculum
fairtradesports wrote 2 months ago: Just in time for school, it’s the newest addition to Fair Trade curriculums! We have new Fair … more →
Podcast: parenting resource
fairtradesports wrote 3 months ago: I recently spoke with Graham Scharf, the co-founder of Tumblon, an organization which helps parents … more →
Equal Exchange fundraising
fairtradesports wrote 3 months ago: Equal Exchange is an organization that has been around since 1986, when their founders first envisio … more →
Fair Trade is dead
fairtradesports wrote 4 months ago: Fair Trade is dead! Long live Fair Trade! Big brands are continuing to move towards Fair Trade. In t … more →
Fighting modern day slavery
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fairtradesports wrote 4 months ago: Here in the United States, we tend to think of slavery as something that was abolished over 140 year … more →
Oh no, yet another certification
fairtradesports wrote 5 months ago: We’re happy to announce that our soccer balls can now carry yet another certification mark; th … more →
Sponsored by Margaritaville
fairtradesports wrote 5 months ago: Fun news! Fair Trade Sports just won annual sponsorship from Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville Fo … more →
Chicago Green Fest Recap
fairtradesports wrote 5 months ago: I recently attended the Chicago Green Fest; it was fun to see old friends and new. In the midst of s … more →
Fair Trade the White House
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fairtradesports wrote 5 months ago: Fair Trade the White House - an exciting new campaign – has officially begun and we need your … more →
World Fair Trade Day recap
fairtradesports wrote 5 months ago: Who did you spend World Fair Trade Day (May 9) with this year? Our sales representative April Thomps … more →
Now at Transfair USA headquarters
fairtradesports wrote 6 months ago: Our friends at Transfair USA recently placed their new Fair Trade Sports display front and center in … more →
