Handmade Expressions in Los Angeles

15 05 2012

Where to find Handmade Expressions products in the LA area:

Athena Naturals 2045 South Oxford Avenue Los Angeles CA 90018

Cultural Interiors & Gifts 5573 West Pico Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90019

Stefan Chasnov 2017 Kelton Ave. Los Angeles CA 90025

Barlow Guildhouse 2000 Stadium Way Los Angeles CA 90026

New High (M)art 1720 N. Vermont Ave. Los Angeles CA 90027

Kathmandu-LA 5035 Huntington Dr. North Los Angeles CA 90032

ShinyHappyShop.com 4610 Paulhan Avenue Los Angeles CA 90041

SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills 465 S. La Cienega Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90048

Duet Interior Collections 11732 West Pico Blvd Los Angeles CA 90064

SRF India Gift Shop 3233 N San Fernando Road, Unit 6 Los Angeles CA 90065

Nancy Bothne Designs 3247 Rosewood Ave. Los Angeles CA 90066

Library Foundation, The 630 W 5th Street Los Angeles CA 90071

Fowler Museum at UCLA 308 Charles E Young Drive N Los Angeles CA 90095

Curious 128 Pier Ave. Hermosa Beach CA 90254

Magpie 1141 Highland Avenue Manhattan Beach CA 90266

Corners of the World 1 Malaga Cove Plaza Palos Verdes Estates CA 90274

M’Pressions 1700 South Catalina Avenue Redondo Beach CA 90277

Topanga Home Grown 120 South Topanga Canyon Blvd Topanga CA 90290

Ananda 1354 Abbot Kinney Blvd Venice CA 90291

Bridgid Coulter Designs 1419 5th Street Santa Monica CA 90401

Palmetto 1034 Montana Avenue Santa Monica CA 90403

Parkside Pharmacy 2428 Santa Monica Blvd. Santa Monica CA 90404

Arts & Letters 2665 C Main Street Santa Monica CA 90405

something YOU, LLC 5532 Woodruff Avenue Lakewood CA 90713

Hot Stuff Long Beach 2121 E. Broadway Long Beach CA 90803

Fern’s Garden 5308-B E 2nd Street long Beach CA 90803

Sharmonly 3553 Atlantic Ave #1245 Long Beach CA 90807

Family Fair 810 Meridian Avenue S. Pasadena CA 91030

Vroman’s Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd. Pasadena CA 91101

Ten Thousand Villages 567 South Lake Avenue Pasadena CA 91101

Yoga House 11 West State Street Pasadena CA 91105

Norton Simon Museum 411 West Colorado Blvd Pasadena CA 91105

Vida Verde 3425 Fairesta St. La Crescenta CA 91214

Ananda Ashram 5301 Pennsylvania Ave La Crescenta CA 91214

Follow Your Heart 21825 S Sherman Way Canoga Park CA 91303

Artists’ Enclave 7334 De Soto Ave. Canoga Park CA 91303

Ignition Clothing 24208 Valencia Blvd. Valencia CA 91355

Sharondipity 22563 Ventura Blvd Woodland Hills CA 91364

Kingfisher Road 4922 Topanga Canyon Blvd. Woodland Hills CA 91364

Kaiser Hospital 13652 Cantara Street Panorama City CA 91402

Dana Drug Store 317 North Pass Avenue Burbank CA 91505

Buddhamouse 134 Yale Ave Claremont CA 91711

Premiere 217 W Las Tumas Dr San Gabriel CA 91776

Perfect 10 Communications 3080 W. Valley Blvd. Alhambra CA 91803

Holy Family Bookstore 1527 Fremont Avenue South Pasadena CA 91030

CSU Northridge 18111 Nordhoff St. Northridge CA 91330


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May 14th Lata Ji In Los Angeles

1 05 2012

Please come to a wonderful evening with a speaker from India.  This event is sponsored by FTLA, South Coast Interfaith Council, Fair Trade Towns and Handmade Expressions. This will replace our May FTLA meeting.  Invite others.   (Jane, I cannot do this in word).  Tony, Emily and Joe, please send on to your committees.

Lata Ji is available May 14th in the afternoon to meet with stores that want to talk about having FT items, or any other group/important individual that would like to connect with her.
FTLA Speaker Lata Ji 5-14-12

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Support Fair Trade Buy Fair Trade Tote Bags

17 01 2012

FTLA supports women in Kolkata, India, who live and work in the Red Light district. They now have gainful employment with a fair wage, health benefits and education. Support these women and FTLA’s education efforts by purchasing one of their beautiful Fair Trade reusable shopping bags. Send an email to fairtradela@gmail.com and let us know of your interest. We are not set up for credit cards so payment will need to be by check. The cost is $20 plus.


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Starbuck’s Fair Trade Charade

18 10 2011

What’s the point of Starbucks having fair trade coffee if you can’t buy a cup of it?

Starbucks says a lot about supporting small farmers through fair trade. But try buying a cup of brewed fair trade coffee in any American Starbucks and you’re in for some blank looks and a long wait.

Fair trade fights common forms of labor exploitation including human trafficking, child labor, and other abuses. No wonder Starbucks wants to promote the fact that they source coffee from fair trade certified farms. But walk into any Starbucks in the U.S., and it’s likely that you won’t see a fair trade coffee on the menu. Ask for it specifically and you’ll have to wait for a whole new pot to be brewed before you can even get your hands around a cup of it.

Former Starbucks barista Sam Greenblatt has started a petition on Change.org asking Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz to live up to Starbucks’ fair trade ideals by making a fair trade option brewed and available to every customer. Sign Sam’s petition to get a brewed fair trade option available to every American Starbucks customer, everyday.

Fair trade is able to improve the lives of small farmers by connecting them directly to consumers — through labeling that tells consumers where products come from and certifies the fairness of the exchange. Without fair trade, many coffee farmers can only sell their harvests for less than the costs of production, forcing them into a cycle of poverty and debt.

Thanks to the enduring efforts of advocates, 100% of Starbucks’ brewed espresso sold in Europe is Fairtrade Certified. This means every cappuccino, pumpkin spice latte and caramel machiatto is ethically sourced as well as delicious.

It’s time for Starbucks to not just talk the fair trade talk, but walk the walk by making fair trade coffee options easily available in their U.S. stores. Sign Sam’s petition to get a brewed Fair Trade Coffee option available in every American Starbucks, everyday:

http://www.change.org/petitions/ceo-howard-shultz-offer-brewed-fair-trade-coffee-daily-in-us-stores

Thanks for being a change-maker,

Amanda and the Change.org team


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Categories : 63547, Action, Coffee, Events, Justice, Public Policy, Quality of Life

Chocolate Tasting

18 10 2011

By Phil Fehrle

It was billed as a Fair Trade chocolate tasting, but I thought the tasting part would never come. They stalled by first giving us the history of chocolate, then the geography and then the sociography (thousands of small cacao farmers in tropical zones around the world – mostly in western Africa).

Finally, they gave each of us two miniature Dixie cups and told us to put one little chunk each of white chocolate, milk chocolate, 70% cacao and 85% cacao, a chocolate-covered coffee bean and a chocolate covered berry into the cups – and not to forget which was which. All right! Time for tasting!

Not quite. They wanted to talk about the process: the growing, the harvesting, the fermentation, the roasting, the cracking & separating, the grinding, the conching (don’t ask!). And I’ve got six delicious morsels of Fair Trade organic chocolate staring me in the face. Will someone please just pull the trigger!!

Then they wanted to give us the regimen on chocolate tasting (like I didn’t know how to do this?). Apparently it’s about the order – going from light to dark. You begin with the white, then the milk, then the 70% cacao and, finally, the 85% cacao. Folks, we’re talking chocolate. CHOCOLATE! What’s the holdup here?

Next they talked about the grading – you know, things like the firmness of the snap when you break the chocolate, the cleanness of the break after the snap, the smoothness of the surface and the softness in your hand. And all I’m thinking is, “Let’s get on with this. My salivaries are working overtime!!”

… And the aroma as it wafts into your nostrils. And the delight to your tongue as you place it on the tip (where most of your taste buds reside). And the texture as it slowly melts in your mouth. And the bite (or lack thereof). And the flavor: Fruity? Nutty? Earthy? Smoky? And the aftertaste (or lack thereof). And all the while, those six little morsels beckon relentlessly.

Merciless! That’s what it was. Like Chinese water torture! And when they finally cut us loose? PURE HEAVEN. And why not? It was chocolate! Divine Chocolate. Kopali Organics Chocolate. CHOCOLATE!

And I had to stop and remind myself that this moment of bliss was brought to me by a hard-working farmer in Africa or Peru or some other place beyond my experience, who labored to produce the cacao in this chocolate under a system that affords him adequate support for his family and the dignity of self reliance. That’s Fair Trade.

Thanks to Jacqueline Holmes of Kopali Organics and Amanda White of Divine Chocolate.


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Fair Trade LA Jute Bags *Get Yours Now!

24 09 2011

Join with Fair Trade LA in supporting women who have finally found freedom. FTLA has purchased quality jute bags from Freeset in Kolkata, India. Freeset is a fair trade business offering employment to women trapped in India’s sex trade. For your $20 contribution we will send you this beautiful bag that you will enjoy using for years to come. To order please send an email to fairtradela@gmail.com. Thanks.

 


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Vote For Divine Chocolates Top 10 Nominees for Green Business of the Year‏

16 09 2011

Congratulations to the ten outstanding green businesses that received the most nominations to be named Green Business of the Year for 2011!

Companies like these, and all the members of our business network, are green-economy heroes, using their entrepreneurial skills for social change and a more sustainable planet.

This year’s list of top-ten nominees (chosen by you, the people!) cover a range of green-business products and services. They include companies that offer:

  • Fair Trade chocolate
  • eco-friendly toys
  • sustainable personal care products
  • humane, eco-friendly pest control
  • earth-friendly, organic fashion
  • local and organic food
  • Fair Trade gifts and accessories
  • re-used and recycled products
  • peace and social-justice educational products, and more

To find out which change-making businesses made it into the top ten, visit our People’s Choice page.

Then, cast your vote for the 2011 People’s Choice Award for Green Business of the Year, and stay tuned to your e-newsletter to find out who won. (We’ll present the award officially the weekend of November 12 at our San Francisco Green Festival.)

Cast your vote today!

Here’s to green businesses building a better world,

Alisa Gravitz,
Executive Director,
Green America

P.S. Help scale up the green economy when you support Green America’s work. Thanks for all you do.

JOIN NOW | DONATE TODAY | SEND THIS TO A FRIEND
Green America, 1612 K St NW Ste 600, Washington DC 20006 – (800) 58 GREEN – www.greenamerica.org


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Help Hershey Continue to Raise the Bar

14 09 2011
You can help bring greater media attention to this issue by writing a timely letter to the editor of your local newspaper.
Check out our sample letter here
Once again, Green America will be helping lead Reverse-Trick-or-Treating for Halloween, for kids to give out Fair Trade chocolate to adults. Free kits are available and must be ordered between Oct. 3 and 7. Mark your calendars »
Dear Joan Harper,

I owe you a special thank you. It’s been one year since we first called on you to join us in telling Hershey to Raise the Bar, and you have stepped up, in BIG way.

Together, we have exposed Hershey’s dirty secrets, calling out the company’s use of the worst forms of child labor in its chocolate.

  • More than 50,000 of you have signed petitions to the CEO of Hershey
  • More than 2,500 of you hosted film screenings of the Dark Side of Chocolate in your communities,
  • Thousands of you have called the Hershey customer service line requesting a Fair Trade Hershey bar, or posted a Fair Trade message on Hershey’s Facebook page,
  • And a countless number of you have shifted to supporting Fair Trade chocolate companies, voting with your dollars for a better world.

Other companies have read our original report on Hershey’s practices and have increased their commitment to Fair Trade – but still no commitment from Hershey.

So today we released our second alternative corporate social responsibility report for the Hershey Company: STILL Time to Raise the Bar: The REAL CSR report for The Hershey Company [PDF]. In this report we highlight Hershey’s ongoing failure to trace its supply chain and stop child labor. We also call out Hershey as the laggard in the industry—being the only major chocolate company that has failed to adopt ANY third party certifications for its cocoa.

Monday, September 19th will mark the ten-year anniversary of the signing of the Harkin-Engel Protocol—an agreement signed by the country’s largest chocolate companies, including Hershey, to put an end to forced child labor on cocoa farms by 2005. Now, six years later, Hershey is still dragging its feet and hundreds of thousands of children continue to work long, grueling hours in the cocoa fields of West Africa, according to a report funded by the US Department of Labor.

Bottom line: We have to keep the pressure on Hershey. As chocolate-lovers and consumers, we have the power to change Hershey. Let Hershey know you will not tolerate chocolate made at the expense of children!

Send an e-mail to Hershey executives »

Read our NEW report [PDF] to learn about Hershey’s failure to take action on child labor.

Thank you for all you have done, and continue to do, for a fairer world.


Alisa Gravitz,
Executive Director,
Green America

P.S. To scale up this campaign and put even more pressure on Hershey, we need your support! Please donate now! Our children have returned to school, but not the kids laboring in the cocoa fields of West Africa. Click here to donate.

 


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World Fair Trade Day: Get in the Picture @ Moka Cafe!

11 05 2011

World Fair Trade Day: Get in the picture!

Moka  on Friday, May 13th

Moka Cafe Fair Trade Los Angeles

Moka Cafe Fair Trade Los Angeles


Get coffee for $1 if you pose for a picture with a “I Took a Fair Trade Coffee Break” sticker.

We will post the pictures on Facebook on Saturday.

If you’ve been meaning to check out Moka, make it Friday!!!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Moka-Cafe/109553842455776.

Moka Cafe is located at
55 S. Lake Ave., Suite 125 Pasadena, CA 91101


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Need Sponsors for Fair Trade LA Bags

26 04 2011
support fair trade la with a bag sponsorship

support fair trade la with a bag sponsorship

We are getting down to the wire for ordering our FT bags from Freeset (deadline is Monday due to a price increase) but we are hoping for a few more sponsors for our fair trade bags.   We are asking for $100 sponsorship (they can give more!!).  If they want they can have their logo put on our bags (but if they don’t that is okay).  Can you think of anyone you can approach for a sponsorship?  The money can come in a week or two.  Just need to find the folks and get their support.   Let’s give it one more try.

Joan Harper
(818) 406-9296
 Fair Trade:
A Sustainable Solution to Global Poverty
www.fairtradela.org

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