Guest Blogger
Social Investment Toolkit
Investing can be tricky business. And stressful. Not to mention a headache. And, especially for the novice investor… simply overwhelming. Add to this trying to promote a worthy cause…in a bad economy! So how should I invest my money responsibly? How do I choose a cause? How will my money be spent? Let’s find out.
Fair Trade House Party
I feel confident that House Parties will be a very good way to not only expand our store, but to also educate our community around us about fair trade.
Fair Trade and the Environment
At the recent Shared Interest meeting in York, Jeremy Piercy, founder of fair trade success story Shared Earth, addressed the relationship between fair trade and the environment. In his eyes environmentalists and fair trade campaigners are missing a trick – the two separate campaigns have much to gain from working together.
Is shopping the new politics?
Many people, predictably, year on year, decry how Christmas has become so commercial, lost its spiritual meaning. Yet these days, while not finding meaning in our lives from the Church, many of us have adopted more humanist values and can still find meaning in our lives from helping others. Fair Trade and ethical investment are prime examples of doing just that.
Fairtrade Coffee Only 3% of US Market
Lisa Zaslow is a guest blogger and the views expressed herein are her own and do not necessarily represent the views of Shared Interest Society.
Lisa is a passionate fair trade and microfinance activist currently living in North Carolina, USA. She is the founder of Blue People Fair Trade Ltd., an online store that specializes [...]
Investing in Fair Trade Versus Donor Aid
Wainaina maintains that “the single thing that has changed the lives of millions of Kenyans in the last ten or fifteen years has been the rearrangement of the banking capital to serve the small Kenyan….the micro-lending banks, scaling up the idea that somebody who earns a thousand shillings a month is bankable and someone to invest in and be able to create a model for that person to acquire credit in a reasonable way and grow, that has mattered more than a donor or all of the donor things, because it believes in the idea that the person on the ground has an idea and that idea can be serviced.”
Choose Fairtrade Liberation Nuts!
Lisa Zaslow is a guest blogger and the views expressed herein are her own and do not necessarily represent the views of Shared Interest Society.
Lisa is a passionate fair trade and microfinance activist currently living in North Carolina, USA. She is the founder of Blue People Fair Trade Ltd., an online store that specializes [...]
Why Invest in Fair Trade?
Lisa Zaslow is a guest blogger and the views expressed herein are her own and do not necessarily represent the views of Shared Interest Society.
Lisa is a passionate fair trade and microfinance activist currently living in North Carolina, USA. She is the founder of Blue People Fair Trade Ltd., an online store that specializes [...]
Visiting Fair Trade Businesses in Kenya
Ian and Shelagh are Shared Interest ambassadors and the views in this post are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Shared Interest Society.
After a leisurely day yesterday being tourists today, Monday 13th, Has been busy visiting Trinity Jewellery Crafts and Bega Kwa Bega. These are two quite different enterprises. Trinity is [...]
Fair Trade Helps Sustain Palestinian Handicrafts
Lisa Zaslow is a guest blogger and the views expressed herein are her own and do not necessarily represent the views of Shared Interest Society.
Lisa is a passionate fair trade and microfinance activist currently living in North Carolina, USA. She is the founder of Blue People Fair Trade Ltd., an online store that specializes [...]