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Fair Trade is Red...Fair Trade is Blue...

posted Feb 11, 2012 2:46 PM by Sara Little   [ updated Feb 13, 2012 2:35 PM ]

...Because a fair trade Valentine's Day is for you! It's February, and that means the season of romantic love. Everywhere you go there will be advertisements exclaiming how you can use their company's product in a romantic way. Some might say "Take the rust out of your relationship with a new water softener," or "Let her know how much you love her with a new copper sink..."

Seriously? For Valentine's Day? Thank goodness fair trade doesn't have to fake relevance to the holiday. There are some things that are more traditional than home repair items you can get and they're ethical to boot! The first and foremost being...chocolate!


            We've told you before how completely awesome Divine chocolate is, but now we're here to report that this heavenly chocolate's heart beats for romance. The Welcome Mat has several flavors of their bar chocolate, and online their heart shaped candies are available as well. Mix that with some fair trade champagne and your evening is good to go!

            Roses are always a good decision, in fact flowers are always a good decision. Believe it or not just like fair trade coffee and fair trade fruit there are fair trade flowers! One World Flowers ships fair trade flowers all across the country, making them available to just about anyone. Receiving a bouquet of ethical blossoms will remove doubt about whether he loves you, or he loves you not!

            Chocolates are delicious, but once you eat them they're gone. Flowers are wonderful as well, but they fade with time. However jewelry lasts. If there is one thing that fair trade can provide to you, or The Welcome Mat has in stock it is jewelry! There are so many fun designs and pieces that its hard to imagine not being able to find something to match any one's style. Diamonds are not always a girls best friend. Sometimes it paper beads, sometimes copper, sometimes soapstone. But for those ladies who are especially close to diamonds places such as Brilliant Earth and Pristine Planet will be the places to look.

Valentine's Day is a time set aside for you and your significant other to celebrate love, but when the gifts you give are fair trade, you don't just celebrate romantic love, but the love and compassion of the planet and communities all over the globe! And with love like that, Cupid's aim was never better.