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Fair Trade Finals

March 28, 2018

Fair Trade Finals is one of our most popular events. This semester we are going to serve Fair Trade Certified coffee from Farmer Brothers and chocolates in MSC’s Upper-Level Food Court. A table with delicious coffee and promotional materials with FT educational information will be distributed to over 300 people.

Texas A&M Farmers Market Presented By Chartwells

March 28, 2018

Join us outside Sbisa on March 27 for a Farmers Market! Local vendors will be on site to showcase and sell their products. Come on out! They (and we!) would love to see you. We are going to serve Fair Trade Certified drinks to everyone. Current List of Vendors: -Texas Flame & Smoke -Brazos Turnings […]

Fair Trade Finals

March 23, 2018

Pick up some free fair trade items to help you get through finals and learn about Fair Trade and Fair Trade initiatives at Green Mountain College in Withey Hall Lobby.

Fair Trade Finals

March 22, 2018

UNCW Campus Dining will be educating about the benefits and value of purchasing and sourcing Fair Trade on campus and in student’s personal lives. Stop by to enjoy some free samples! * Fair Trade Coffee from Doi Chaang Coffee Co. * Fair Trade Chocolate from Lake Champlain Chocolates * Fair Trade Tea from Numi Tea […]

San Lucas Fair Trade Coffee for Sale all year long

March 22, 2018

Coffee from San Lucas Mission in Guatemala for sale in Campus Ministry all year long $12.00

SERRV Fair Trade Chocolate for Sale

March 22, 2018

Milk Chocolate Bars and Dark Chocolate Bars for sale in Campus Ministry all year long. $2.50

April 9th

March 19, 2018

Guest Speaker Chrissy Stonebreaker Martinez, [email protected] Chrissy leads the Cleveland Height Fair Trade Town campaign and works for the InterReligious Task Force on Central America. IRTF is an organization in Cleveland that does a lot of programming on Fair Trade, including presentations at local schools. More info here: https://www.irtfcleveland.org/content/fair-trade. 7th grade students and Upper school […]

Fair Trade Tea Table at Greenfest Celebration

March 15, 2018

During the 3 hour celebration of Greenfest, a week of educational activities around environmental and social issues, we’ll have a fair trade tea table set up. Committee members will be there talking to students about what fair trade is and what we’re doing on campus to promote it. We’re one of a few tables set […]

Front Porch Fair Trade Dinner & Discussion

March 15, 2018

Come join Net Impact at Front Porch on Wednesday, April 18th at 6pm for a free dinner and discussion about Fair Trade and how it affects our earth and the people on it. There will be trivia, a home-cooked meal featuring Fair Trade ingredients, a raffle (for Guayaki Yerba Mate), and a whole ton of […]

Texas A&M Farmers Market Presented By Chartwells

March 8, 2018

It is an annual event that unites farmers from local communities outside of Sbisa Dining Hall at the end of March. Local vendors bring their produce and products for purchase and to test the taste. Pepsi, our general campus vendor, will provide Fair Trade Certified drinks like 1893 Cola and others.

Fair Trade Awareness Week

March 7, 2018

We will have a table on our campus mall all week that we will use to give away our fair trade week stickers, sell shirts, and help educate our campus on fair trade.

Fair Trade Awareness Week: Wear Justice

March 7, 2018

We are hosting a fair trade clothing event with the motto donate, swap, buy. We will have many local and well known sustainable clothing companies as vendors selling their sustainable clothing. We will also have food and drinks at the event and are hoping to have students from every university in San Diego as well […]

Fair Trade Awareness Week: Sustainable Fashion Show

March 7, 2018

We will be hosting a student fashion show that will give students the opportunity to model clothes that were sustainably made or purchased second hand from a thrift store. We encourage students to be creative in how they express themselves and hope to use this event to create more awareness on fair trade clothing on […]

Fair Trade Awareness Week: The True Cost

March 7, 2018

We will be showing the documentary, The True Cost, which is a documentary that shows many negative effects that our fashion and clothing industry have on the environment and the people who manufacture our clothing. We will also have free food at the event, so come out to get some food and learn more about […]

Fair Trade Market

March 7, 2018

Shop from local fair trade vendors, learn about sustainability, and meet some fair traders in the area! Vendors include: Maven Made, The Ethical Olive, Love This, and many more!

27th Annual Walkathon

March 6, 2018

The staff and students of St. Martin of Tours Academy have the opportunity to participate in a Walkathon to raise funds for something that directly benefits our school and student’s education. From our Walkathon last year we updated the school’s sound system & finished paying for the rubberized flooring on the primary playground This year, […]