Fair Trade S'mores Happy Hour

Calling all Bay Area Fair Traders/Chocolate Lovers.

This Wednesday, Global Exchange is throwing our second annual Fair Trade S'mores (Kid Friendly) Happy Hour.

Many cocoa farmers live in grinding poverty. Help cocoa farming communities gain access to education, health care and humane working conditions by eating Fair Trade s’mores!

Quick Details:

Date:  Wednesday, July 29th

Time:  6:00 –8:00 PM

Location:  Speedway Meadow at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

• Bring Your Own: Graham crackers, marshmallows, something to roast marshmallows on (ie sticks, wire hangers), Fair Trade chocolate (which you can find at stores like Global Exchange, Bi-rite, Rainbow, etc)*
  
•     Arrive early and get your Fair Trade chocolate free!
  
•     Free chocolate tasting provided by Alter Eco!
  
•     Piñata and other fun activities!
  
•     Children and acoustic musical instruments welcome!!!
  
•     Note:  Alcohol prohibited by park
  

Join other members of Global Exchange and organizations nationwide in making Fair Trade S’mores as part of our campaign to convince Hershey's and the rest of the cocoa industry to use Fair Trade cocoa. Please help us reach our goal of making 1,500 Fair Trade s’mores nationwide and registering them online!

All of the information can be found on our Fair Trade cocoa page and or on the Facebook event page. Hope to see you there around the s'mores grill while you join in on the most delicious political action you might ever take!

Summer is in the Air

It's the 1st of July and summer is officially in full swing. The sun is even out in foggy San Francisco! So, summer, sun...full swing. What better way to usher it all in than with our brand new hammocks from El Salvador. I don't know about you, but the thought of laying in a hammock on a warm day (or any day!) brings an instant smile to my face.

Lay back and relax in this hammock and enjoy the great story behind them. They are 100% cotton and from T-shirt production waste in El Salvador.

Using cotton trim pieces from a T-shirt factory that would normally be thrown away, the cotton is ground and re-spun into these beautiful striped hammocks. Recycled candle wax, gathered from local churches, is also used to lubricate the cotton for weaving. Employees are paid above standard wages and receive benefits, and safety precautions are taken to insure the welfare of all employees. Even the machinery used to spin and weave these hammocks was purchased used!

Gimme gimme.

Speaking of summer, our Summer S'mores Action is back. Last year, Global Exchange started the first Summer S'mores Action getting hundreds of people across the country to gather around and make their s'mores using Fair Trade Certified chocolate. It was a great and fun success and now it's back and asking to gather even more people to participate and take a stand for cocoa farmers everywhere.

Find out how you can get involved and to get you all motivated, check out our video from last year's action. This might be the most delicious political action you'll ever take!