The Chicago Fair Trade is offering conscious consumers an alternative to Black Friday by opening its sixth annual pop-up shop.

Better Choice is a "fair trade" gift shop featuring artists from Central America. It opened in March in the Century Club Center in downtown Muskegon.

The roots of The Olive Branch reach back 50 years, when the fair-trade store, now located in Pine, began with just $250 in ...

Saturday, May 8 is World Fair Trade Day and for the 48 hours that encompass a global day, millions of participants in hundreds of cities in more than 70 countries celebrate with breakfasts, talks ...

Let me preface this by saying that exclusively shopping fair trade does involve some sacrifice. You will likely have to alter your buying habits (sometimes significantly), but there are ways you ...

Peoria Heights is home to a fair-trade business once more. Just over two months after announcing plans to come to the area, Ten Thousand Villages opened its doors on Oct. 19. Executive Director ...

Becke Dawson, owner of SIS International Shop in Davenport, holds a piece of oil drum art from Haiti. The fair trade gift shop is located at 1605 Harrison St., Davenport. (John Schultz / Quad-City ...

Simultaneously, fair trade requires from farmers a commitment to social responsibility and environmental stewardship. In Nicaragua, I lived in the small cement home of Alfredo Rosales, a Fair Trade ...

A fair-trade shop called Ten Thousand Villages in downtown Overland Park says its mission is as much about educating the public about fair trade as it is selling the goods the store offers. Store ...

The not-for-profit, volunteer-based Global Village shop sold coffees, gifts and other fair-trade goods.

They opened their first Fair Trade Winds shop in Maine in 2007. Now there are six across the country. Their local shop opened in October in the Mosaic District in Merrifield, Va.