Humanitarian Organization we support:

Plant Hope in Cambodia

www.phic.org

Plant Hope in Cambodia, Inc. (PHIC) works with poor and subsistence farmers in Cambodia to empower them to live a healthier and more productive lives. In memory of Monorom and in honor of the Cambodian immigrants who make our gift bags in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Companies we like to buy stuff from:

Green Pages
www.greenpages.org
Co-op America's Green Pages Online™ is America's premier directory of qualified green companies — companies with demonstrated commitments to social and environmental responsibility. All companies in the Green Pages Online TM have been screened and approved by Co-op America.

Artists for Humanity

www.afhboston.com
Founded in 1991, Artists for Humanity (AFH) began by producing and marketing large-scale collaborative painting that reflect the voice and vision of the rich cultural diversity of urban community to Boston's business community. Untapping a wealth of young people hungry for the opportunity to share their voices with the world, AFH quickly became a structured, four-year paid apprenticeship program that pairs teens with experienced artists in a brod range of fine and commerial arts for product development and services to the business community. Today, AFH remains a haven for teens from every corner of the city, a place where they canexplore and express their creative abilities, identify possibilities for continuing education, and most importantly, dispel the myth that the larger world is forever closed to them. AFH develops young people as leaders in social change...   

Women's Craft Cooperative at Rosie's Place

www.rosies.org/wcc
The Women's Craft Cooperative of Rosie's Place, in existence since 1996, is helping women of Rosie's help themselves by turning new and vintage buttons into decorative accessories. Through introducing women to craft skills and the basics of merchandising, the cooperative aims to foster self-esteem and creativity, along with employable skills, a greater earning potential, and a source of income to the artisans. Rosie's Place is a shelter for women that provides lunch and dinner every day; emergency shelter; permanent housing; advocacy; clothing; a food pantry; a food cooperative; and job training for poor and homeless women of Boston.

Burt’s Bees
www.burtsbees.com
Earth friendly natural personal care products.

No Pudge Brownies
www.nopudge.com
NO PUDGE! Fat Free Fudge Brownie Mixes make rich, fudgy brownies with no fat. Great news for brownie and chocoholics who want to satisfy that chocolate craving but also want to keep the fat out of their food and off their hips. The mixes contain only all natural ingredients and you only need to add nonfat vanilla yogurt to get some of the best brownies we’ve ever tasted.

Reusable Bags
www.reusablebags.com

Since 2003 ReusableBags.com has been a major force providing facts and news on the global push to reduce plastic and paper bag consumption. Plus, simple actions can do to help the cause.  As part of the solution their store features a wide range of reusable shopping bags and other innovative, practical products all designed to help people consume les, presere natural resources and save money too.

Kate's Caring Gifts
www.katescaringgifts.com
Home of delicious gourmet foods, naturally fun and healthy body care, aromatherapy candles and many other wonderful items to indulge your friends, family and you.

Green Glass
www.greenglass.com
The Friendliest Glasses on Earth! They take ordinary bottles that were headed toward the landfill, and transform them into stylish, unique goblets, tumblers, lamps, and vases. Rather than reaching landfills, they put these bottles through a metamorphosis, and they become useful, and beautiful glassware.

Food For Thought
www.giftsthatmatter.com
Some of the best preserves and gourmet gift foods you'll ever taste, and all organic! Our favorite is the Cherry Cabernet Preserves....

Maggie's Organics
www.organicclothes.com
Maggie's Functional Organics makes clothing apparel made from organic fibers. Their socks, camisoles,  and t-shirts are made from certified organic cotton, wool, and linen and pesticide-free hemp by the women of Maquilador Mujeres, a worker-owned cooperative based in Nicaragua. These women and this company truly are "ants that moved mountains."

Body Shop
www.bodyshop.com
A standard. One of the pioneering companies in the area of socially responsible business and still a favorite for their vast array of great personal care products.

Whole Foods Market
www.wholefoods.com
The world’s largest retailer of natural and organic foods, they’ve given us access to food and other product that are not only delicious, but better for the world.

Equal Exchange
www.equalexchange.com

Equal Exchange was founded in 1986 to create a new approach to trade, one that includes informed consumers, honest and fair trade relationships and cooperative principles. As a worker-owned co-op, they have accomplished this by offering consumers fairly traded gourmet coffee direct from small-scale farmer co-ops in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Gaiam Catalogs
www.gaiam.com
Gaiam is a provider of information, goods and services to customers who value the environment, a sustainable economy, healthy lifestyles, alternative healthcare and personal development.

10,000 Villages
www.tenthousandvillages.com
Ten Thousand Villages provides vital, fair income to Third World people by marketing their handicrafts and telling their stories in North America.

Serrv International
www.serrv.org
Serrv is a non-profit alternative trade organization that promotes social and economic justice for people in developing regions of the world by marketing their handcrafts and food products in a just and direct manner.

Magazines and Blogs that we read:

Utne Reader
www.utne.com
Utne Magazine reprints the best articles from over 2,000 alternative media sources bringing you the latest ideas and trends emerging in our culture.

Mother Jones
www.motherjones.com
Mother Jones is an independent, nonprofit magazine whose roots lie in a commitment to social justice implemented through first-rate investigative reporting.

E/The Environment Magazine
www.emagazine.com
E' is an independent publication on environmental issues--a magazine that educates, inspires and empowers Americans to make a difference for the environment. E is chock full of everything the budding environmentalist needs to know, from "rainforests to recycling" and from the "personal to the political."

Whole Earth Magazine
www.wholeearthmag.com
Whole Earth shows you ways to take back your power and put it to use. Here you'll find information about restoring your local ecosystem, citizen advocacy, and socially responsible investing. Here are the tools for producing knowledge, and creating communities according to your own values and ideals.

Real Simple
www.realsimple.com
This magazine for simplifying your life provides practical, actionable solutions to the real challenges faced by busy women today such as what's for dinner, where to find comfortable, stylish clothes, how to get a good night's sleep and how to make more time for the things that matter. Plus, these easy everyday solutions are filled with soul--the collective voice of wise women and the advice you'd get from a trusted friend.

Mom Goes Green
www.momgoesgreen.com
As I joined the ranks of parenthood in 2007, my reading has expanded to include blogs like this one, the chronicle of a mom going green, day by day, through experimentation, trial and error. It's great to read about someone else facing the same eco-dragons as I do and slaying them with practical, creative solutions.

Organic Style
www.organicstyle.com
You belong to a select group of people who appreciate the good life, but have a sense of mission to leave the world a better place than you found it. That's where Organic Style magazine comes in. It’s your source for everything organic: health… beauty… food… home… garden… travel… work…family…soul.

Making a Life, Making a Living (ML2) Newsletter
www.makingalife.com
Building off of Mark Albion’s book NY Times bestseller Making a Life, Making a Living, this email newsletter provides regular reminders of what’s important in life, and it’s not the size of your house, the price of your car, or the title on your office door.

Organizations we believe in:

Co-op America
www.coopamerica.org
Practical steps for using your consumer and investor power for social change – find other vendors who subscribe to the same values you do.

Global Social Venture Competition
www.socialvc.net
A business plan competition sponsored by the Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley),Columbia Business School, and the Goldman Sachs Foundation, it fosters the creation of businesses and nonprofit organizations that are profitable or financially sustainable and can demonstrate a quantifiable social return on investment.

Net Impact
www.net-impact.org
Net Impact is a network of emerging business leaders committed to using the power of business to create a better world. It is also the most progressive and influential network of MBAs in existence today. Originally founded as Students for Responsible Business in 1993, Net Impact has developed from a great idea shared by a few business students into a mission-driven network of 5,000 new leaders for better business.

Business for Social Responsibility
www.bsr.org
Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) is a global nonprofit organization that helps member companies achieve commercial success in ways that respect ethical values, people, communities and the environment.

Social Venture Network
www.svn.org
Founded in 1987 by some of the nation's most visionary leaders in socially responsible entrepreneurship and investment, Social Venture Network (SVN) is a nonprofit network committed to building a just and sustainable world through business. SVN promotes new models and leadership for socially and environmentally sustainable business in the 21st century. They champion this effort through initiatives, information services and forums that strengthen the community and empowers its members to work together on behalf of their shared vision.

Songbird Foundation
www.songbird.org
The Songbird Foundation is a non-profit organization that educates and motivates people to make sustainable choices to preserve migratory songbirds. One of the greatest threats to migratory songbirds is the surge in aggressive sun-grown coffee. In Latin America, coffee has traditionally been grown under the canopy of the rain forest, and a majority of the remaining regional forest is on coffee farm.

Fair Trade Federation
www.fairtradefederation.com
The Fair Trade Federation (FTF) is an association of fair trade wholesalers, retailers, and producers whose members are committed to providing fair wages and good employment opportunities to economically disadvantaged artisans and farmers worldwide.