The world of fair trade – a Twitter’s Eye view
Today is World Fair Trade day. Due to child care and household duties my celebration has been mainly eating and drinking fair trade food with the family. However Twitter has been keeping me up to date with what’s going on in the world of fair and ethical trade. Been interesting to see who tweets on fair trade issues and what the world of fair trade looks like on Twitter.
So this is my (very incomplete) guide to who is tweeting on fair and ethical trade from an organisational perspective. If you or someone you know is missing then you can tweet me at @andyredfern or add a comment to this post and I’ll update this list later. Now 45 on the list!
UK Fair Trade Brands
Cafedirect – @cafedirect_hq
Divine Chocolate -@divinechocolate, dubblehq
Fairtrade Foundation – @fairtradeUK
Fairplay Condoms – @Fairplaycondoms
Frank and Faith @AnyaEcoChic
Pachacuti – @Carrysomers
Pants to Poverty – @pantstopoverty
People Tree @PeopleTree – also People Tree founder @SafiaMinney
Shared Interest – @SharedInterest plus several staffers who tweet including @sallyreith, @fair_ruth, @stealthescene and @pgs73
Traidcraft – @traidcraft plus staff member @annewitton
UK Ethical and Fair Trade Retailers
Adili – no official account but Adam Smith (CEO) is @ecoadvocate and Mark Swire (FD) is @geekowarrior
Ethical Superstore – @ethicalstore plus @Ethical_News news feed. You can also follow staff @andyredfern, @vicmorgan, @JoannaGlover, @BenMawhinney, @johnordeal
Fair Cake @FairCakeLondon
Ethics Girls – @ethicsgirls
Henry and Jayne – @henryandjayne
Love Eco – @Loveeco
MondoMundi @fairtradephil
Natural Collection @NatCol (not currently updated ) best to follow marketing man @altepper
Nigel’s Eco Store – @Nigels_EcoStore
Peros @Peros_Fairtrade
US Fair Trade Brands
Equal Exchange – @Ashley_at_EqEx
Fair Trade Federation @FTFederation
US Fair Trade Retailers
Blue People @bluepeople
Irish Fair Trade Retailers
Wish4fairtrade – @wish4fairtrade
Dutch fair trade brands
Max Havellaar @FairtradeNL
International bodies
World Fair Trade Organisation @WFTO
Bloggers, Campaigners and Directories
Ethical Junction @ethicaljunction
Ooffoo – @ooffoo
The Green Familia – @thegreenfamilia
Big Green Switch @BigGreenSwitch
May 9th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
I mentioned about World Fair Trade Day, asked what did you buy fair trade today on twitter and did a blog post on it yesterday on TGF, so please add us or I will feel distinctly unloved!!
May 9th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
I did say it was work in progress
UPDATE – You’re added
May 10th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Thanks Andy, now feeling the love, many thanks also for retweeting the review on the LGR top from Ethical Superstore.
May 10th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
No worries – we’ll have some interesting news about LGR\Hug shortly
May 11th, 2009 at 9:08 am
Affordable Artwork,Funky,Abstract&Contemporary or Commission a piece of your own. I have a family from a small village of Artists painting for me using the priciples of Fair Trade. I Wholesale to Retail outlets – Cafes,Restaurants,Furniture stores,Florists & other Gifts & Homeware outlets. I also have Art Exhibitions as Fund Raisers with Fantastic Returns.
May 12th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
gday
you have ee USA & UK muddled – dont think EE Uk are tweets!
ciao
May 12th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
oops good point Sam. Will fix and update tonight.
Andy
May 12th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Hi Andy, noticed your Fair Trade suppliers list on twitter and EcoChic would love to be added to this.
In a big nutshell:
EcoChic is an online boutique and magazine with ethical and fair trade fashion & jewellery collections, gifts and homewares.
With a flare for fashion and a passion for people and planet, EcoChic sources and produces elegant eco, fair trade and ethical products bringing you a fresh approach to ethical shopping with each product holding a story which we tell for you.
Our EcoChic Foundation also raises vital funds for good causes and we run our Trees For good programme too as well as bringing you ther latest on eco, ethical and fair trade issues within our EcoChic magazine.
Beautiful Designs..Beautiful Beginnings….
Thanks Andy.
May 21st, 2009 at 8:05 am
Hello,
Thanks for adding us all to this Andy. What a great place to find those folks tweeting about fairtrade. Lets get tweeting to each other and the twitterers (?!is that the right terminology) who want to know more about fairtrade.
July 1st, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Hi Andy,
Could you add Bubble & Balm to your list of Fairtrade retailers?
Thanks!
Sue