Start speaking with your shopping...
In my last blog I said "Let us make our voices heard; let us not speak in words, but in dollars."

Here is one company that I think we can speak positively with:

http://www.alaffia.com/

Alaffia sells skincare products that are homemade with fair trade shea butter. The shea butter is made by cooperatives in Togo, West Africa. Fair trade means paying a fair wage in the local context; it means offering people do not have another source of employment, a job. A job that will allow the people in this community to feed themselves and their families.

You can shop from the Alaffia website and also learn more about their sustainability projects. I found this product at the Wedge Co-Op, in the Uptown area of Minneapolis. Many of our local co-ops carry quality products like this - to find a co-op near you, click on the link below:

http://www.coopdirectory.org/directory.htm