Product certification is the win-win solution to global trade: consumers get a high quality product and producers get a livable wage for goods that are produced in harmony with the environment. Learn how to identify certified products. Ask companies to change their policies to protect workers and the environment. Petition your community to become Fair Trade Community!

IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER:

Coffee and Fair Trade

• CLEAN CLOTHES CAMPAIGN
  The Clean Clothes Campaign is a consumer campaign that mobilizes, by organizing different forms of education and actions, the purchasing power of consumers on the issue of working conditions in the garment industry. Help the Clean Clothes Campaign call on companies for accountable by sending postcards to companies to ask about their working conditions. Find out how!
  http://www.cleanclothes.org/index.htm
• CO-OP AMERICA - "Adopt-a-Supermarket"
  Co-op America is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1982 to harness economic power-the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace-to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society. Get involved with Co-op America's Adopt-a-Supermarket program and petition your local supermarkets to stock and promote more Fair Trade products. Buy Fair Trade products when you shop. Work with your school, workplace, place of worship or community group to promote Fair Trade.
  Co-op America > Programs > Fair Trade
  http://www.coopamerica.org/programs/fairtrade/index.cfm
• EQUAL EXCHANGE
  Equal Exchange, founded in 1986, is the oldest and largest for-profit Fair Trade company in the U.S.. They offer organic, gourmet coffee, tea, sugar, cocoa, and chocolate bars produced by democratically run farmer co-ops in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Download Equal Exchange's house party kit and invite your friends, family and community to gather and talk about Fair Trade and enjoy Fair Trade coffee.
  Equal Exchange > Get Involved
  http://www.equalexchange.com/get-involved
• FAIR TRADE FOUNDATION - "Become a Fair Trade Town"
  Established in 1992, The Fairtrade Foundation is the UK member of Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO), the international Fair Trade certification body. Check out this web site to see the list of declared Fair Trade towns, cities, villages & islands and to find out how to make your community a Fair Trade Community!
  Fair Trade Foundation > Get Involved > Fair Trade Towns
  http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/get_involved_fairtrade_towns.htm
• FAIR TRADE RESOURCE NETWORK
  The Fair Trade Resource Network (FTRN) seeks to raise consumer awareness about improving people's lives through Fair Trade. The "Fair Trade Futures: Living a Fair Trade Life" Action Guide offers tools and resources to bring Fair Trade to your home, community, workplace, place of worship and business.
  Fair Trade Resource Network > Resources
  http://www.fairtraderesource.org/resources/index.html
• GLOBAL EXCHANGE
  Global Exchange is a membership-based international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world. To get involved with their Coffee and Chocolate Campaigns, download the "Fair Trade Action Packs."
  Global Exchange > The Global Economy > Fair Trade
  http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/
• MAKE TRADE FAIR
  Make Trade Fair is part of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, a worldwide alliance committed to making world leaders live up to their promises, and to making a breakthrough on poverty. Their campaigning tool kit page offers practical tips for planning your campaign and events, getting media coverage for your message, and creating materials. Sign the "Big Noise" petition calling for decision makers to make trade fair.
  Make Trade Fair > Act Now > Campaigning Tool Kit
  http://www.maketradefair.org/en/index.php?
  file=04042003094105.htm&cat=1&subcat=14&select=1
• NO DIRTY GOLD CAMPAIGN
  The No Dirty Gold campaign, an initiative by Earthworks and Oxfam America, seeks to end destructive gold mining practices by calling on retailers and manufacturers of gold jewelry, electronics, and other goods to ensure that the gold in their products was not produced at the expense of local communities, workers, and the environment. Join the campaign and sign the pledge to end dirty gold mining practices.
  http://www.nodirtygold.org/
• NORTHWEST SHADE COFFEE CAMPAIGN
  Run by the Seattle Audubon with staff support from the Conservation program, The Northwest Shade Coffee Campaign works to educate about the connection between coffee, trade and birds. Check out this web site to learn which coffees are shade grown and how your purchases can help birds, the environment, and coffee farmers of Latin America.
  Seattle Audubon > Drink Shade Coffee
  http://www.seattleaudubon.org/shadecoffee/
• OXFAM AMERICA
  Oxfam America is an international development and relief agency and an affiliate of Oxfam International. Working with local partners, Oxfam delivers development programs and emergency relief services, and campaigns for change in global practices and policies that keep people in poverty. Check out the "Bringing Fair Trade to Your Community" Action Guide, and get your community to go Fair Trade.
  Home > News and Publications > Publications > Campaign Materials
  http://www.oxfamamerica.org/newsandpublications/publications/
  campaign_materials
• TRANSFAIR USA - "Make your workplace Fair Trade"
  TransFair USA, a nonprofit organization, is one of nineteen members of Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO), and the only third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States. Encourage your organization/business to serve Fair Trade certified beverages in the workplace! Download an article about Fair Trade to publish in your organization's newsletter.
  Home > Support Fair Trade
  http://www.transfairusa.org/content/support/index.php
• WORLD FAIR TRADE DAY
  World Fair Trade Day is celebrated every second Saturday of May, and is endorsed by the International Fair Trade Association (IFAT), the global authority on Fair Trade, comprised of 256 organizations from 60 countries around the world. Participate in World Fair Trade Day! Visit this site to browse this year's World Fair Trade Day events and to register your organization's activities.
  http://www.wftday.org/

Wood and Certification

• AMERICAN LANDS ALLIANCE
  Founded in 1991 at the height of the Ancient Forest wars in the Pacific Northwest, American Lands Alliance (ALA) seeks to shape, through grassroots campaigning and direct lobbying, forest policy issues. Do you want to help protect National Forests? Check out ALA's "How To" Guides.
  http://www.americanlands.org/
• CO-OP AMERICA
  Co-op America is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1982 to harness economic power-the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace-to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society. Check out Co-op America's "WoodWise" Program, offering practical strategies and resources to help you, your family, and your businesses reduce paper waste and wood use - and keep more trees standing.
  Co-op America > Programs > WoodWise
  http://www.coopamerica.org/programs/woodwise/index.cfm
• DOGWOOD ALLIANCE
  Dogwood Alliance is a growing regional network working to protect Southern forests and communities by engendering broad-based, diverse support for ending unsustainable industrial forest practices. Get involved with their grassroots effort, the "Office Supply Industry" Campaign, to call on U.S. retail paper sellers to buy only those paper products that have been produced in environmentally sustainable ways.
  Dogwood Alliance > Campaigns > Office Supply Industry
  http://www.dogwoodalliance.org/campaign/campaign.php
• ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY
  The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) was established in 1984 to investigate, expose and campaign against the illegal trade in wildlife and the destruction of our natural environment. Get involved with EIA's Forests for the World Campaign. Learn which timber and wood comes from sustainable forestry and where to buy it.
  EIA > Campaigns > Forests > What Can I Do?
  http://www.eia-international.org/campaigns/forests/what_can_i_do/
• FOREST ETHICS
  Forest ethics educates the public about how their purchases are contributing to the destruction of Endangered Forests and mobilizes them to urge corporations to stop buying products that destroy Endangered Forests. There are many ways to get involved! Send a fax to Victoria Secret's CEO to curb its catalogue mailings, or work on the Boreal Campaign to save the forest!
  Forest Ethics > Take Action
  http://www.forestethics.org/article.php?list=type&type=12
• FOREST STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL
  Founded in 1993, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is a global, non-profit organization that promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial and economically viable management of the world's forests through the process of forest certification. FSC standards represent the world's strongest system for guiding forest management toward sustainable outcomes. Find out how to buy and sell FSC products and how to become FSC certified!
  http://www.fsc.org/en/getting_involved
• KLEERCUT
  Kleercut is a Greenpeace campaign targeting the manufacturer's of Kleenex, the Kimberly-Clark Corporation to halt all purchases from endangered forests and to only buy from Forest Stewardship Council eco-certified forests. Get involved by sending an email to Kimberly-Clarke asking them to stop destroying ancient forests!
  http://kleercut.net/en/
• NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL
  National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) uses law, science and the support of its members to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things.. Sign up for NRDC's free bi-weekly email alert on urgent issues related to forests, parks and wildlands, and more!
  National Resources Defense Council > Take Action
  http://www.nrdc.org/action/default.asp
• NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION
  National Wildlife Federation (NWF) has been working to protect America's wildlife since 1936. Join the NWF's EnviroAction Network today to receive the free monthly newsletter and timely updates on ways you can make a difference for wildlife.
  National Wildlife Federation > Take Action
  http://www.nwf.org/enviroaction/
• RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK
  Rainforest Action Network (RAN) campaigns for the forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life by transforming the global marketplace through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action. Get involved in RAN's Old Growth Campaign to pressure some of the world's largest corporations to stop destroying the world's forests.
  RAN > What We Do > Old Growth
  http://www.ran.org/ran_campaigns/old_growth/
• RAINFOREST FOUNDATION
  The Rainforest Foundation seeks to support indigenous people and traditional populations of the world's rainforests in their efforts to protect their environment and fulfill their rights to secure and control the natural resources necessary for their long term well being. Help to improve policies, laws, standards and practices at the national and international level such that the rights of rainforest people are better respected and protected!
  The Rainforest Foundation > What We Do > Campaigns
  http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org/s-Campaigns
• SIERRA CLUB
  America's oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, The Sierra Club seeks to explore, enjoy and protect the wild places on earth; to practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources, to educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment. Join the Sierra Club's Action Network to find your local Sierra Club chapter, participate in Earth Day, or get your friends and neighbors to start a Sierra's book and film club.
  Sierra Club > Get Involved
  http://www.sierraclub.org/involved/