Saturday, January 23, 2010

One for Every Block Please!


Very nice.

Salem's One Fair World - Helping Haitian artisans


Immediate disaster aid is fine and necessary --- but even better to address poverty all the time by helping artisans get a fair price for their work, enabling them to escape aid dependency and to build a better life for themselves. One Fair World, Salem's nonprofit fair trade goods store (474 Court St., OneFairWorld.org) is an important part of that better way. Without a reliable market for their goods, artisans in impoverished countries have no way to provide for themselves:

Why CO2 cap and trade is a scam to allow Business as Usual

P.S. Warmest decade on record just concluded.