Our FAIR TRADE items help build more sustainable communities abroad. Hopefully you’ve seen the Tribal Textiles which benefit Options for Children of Zambia as well as the Kazuri beads, Paper Beads and the Columbian palm ivory jewelry—all supporting the villages where they are made and beyond.
OUR NEWEST PRODUCTS: ZAMBEEZI organic beeswax lip balm and Zambeezi Suncare lip balm (with zinc oxide – 15 SPF) which not only give the buyer a great product, but helps support building schools, and provides clean water and micro-finance in Zambia.
Also NEW: ZAMBIAN SOAP COMPANY makes the finest organic cold process soap from pure organic ingredients. The natural plant essesnces include Lavender, Cassia, Spearmint and Lemongrass. The production of the wonderful soap helps support rural African farmers, villagers and AIDS widows. Over 50% of the profits in this company are reinvested into initiatives such as school building and developing sources of income for Zambian widows.
Our FAIR TRADE groups are helping to build more sustainable communities where poverty is the norm, and our AMERICAN MADE pieces help sustain small businesses in this country. Each piece has a story, a person who crafted it, trying to make a living in this difficult economy.
SUSTAINABLE….why wouldn’t we work (as a species of humans) toward being “sustainable”? When the alternative is UNSUSTAINABLE, why does it seem so hard?
Having ruptured an artery in Mother Earth bleeding into the Gulf of Mexico, we still aren’t seeing much of a call to move to Sustainable Energy. Why do we build our houses to feed the termites? We are either feeding the termites or pouring poison to kill them. We could build our houses out of more energy efficient and biofriendly materials (like Hempcrete) and displace at least a little of our energy use with solar panels in our homes?
I never did understand why we couldn’t use the rinse water from washing machines to water the garden. Why did we always defer our ability of “using the Earth” for the profitability of “using up the Earth?”
How do we change a greedy, unsustainable world of profit-mongers into a “socially responsible cooperative”?
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