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Fair Trade Resolution

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Barnes and Nobel Bookstore

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2015 Los Angeles Super Green Shopper Prize Winner

Nancy Dunitz, a member of Fair Trade LA, won the Super Green Shopper Prize from the LA Green Festival. She is fully supportive of FTLA and its campaign to make LA the largest Fair Trade. “I have operated a wholesale #fairtrade fashion business for over 25 years and am a proud member of Fair Trade […]

Social responsibility in the marketplace

One cannot stress enough the importance of awareness and education to make socially responsible choices in the marketplace. People have to know enough to ask why. Once you know, you can’t un-know. The whole value of everything Fair Trade LA does is education, as broadly as we can do it, whether it’s showing them products, […]

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Fair Trade Classroom Presentation

An interfaith group made a presentation to eighth graders in the our church’s school. 75 students attended. They were shown a video of fair trade artisans at work. They were told a story about a fair trade artisan in Bangladesh. They were allowed to inspect fair trade products (ceramic bowls from Vietnam). This presentation was […]

Fair Trade Tea

Hoot Market

The Hoot Market offers grab-and-go meal options, as well as coffee, tea, snacks, and household items.

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Fair Trade Coffee in the Dining Hall

We were able to have our dining hall replace all coffee with fair trade coffee. Our lunch room will be selling only fair trade coffee as of now throughout the entire year.

Late Night Fair Trade Dream World

Our Student-run coffee house has a long history of serving fair trade coffee and teas. It will soon be looking into other products such as sugar and more..

Evening Fair Trade Snacks

The Buttery is an independent extension of our dining hall that offers snacks, drinks, and small meals. It has adopted a couple of our standard Fair Trade products and added some new ones too!

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Douwe Egberts Coffee – Permanent

Douwe Egberts Coffee is a permanent item for sale in our school cafeteria, the BL Bistro. It is available to the faculty and staff in the teachers’ lounge as well.

Rishi Tea – Permanent

The Bishop Lynch Bistro (school cafeteria) serves Rishi Tea daily. Students and faculty may purchase the tea for use as hot tea or iced tea.

Vagina Monologues Production Fair Trade Bake Sale

The BHS Fair Trade Club was invited to sponsor Berkeley High School’s production of the Vagina Monologues on February 27th, 2016, which is a show around empowering women and sharing the stories of girls from around the world. We sold baked goods with fair trade ingredients for the students and parents who came to see […]

8th Grade Info Night Fair Trade Bake Sale

The BHS Fair Trade club held a bake sale and info stand at the school’s 8th grade information night on February 10th, 2016. We sold baked goods in our cafeteria made with some sort of fair trade ingredient. We offered blondies, brownies, and bunt cake, as well as fair trade chocolate bars. We also passed […]