Fair Trade Archives - The Average Advocate

October Social Good Awareness, Advocacy, and Activism Days

by Elisa | Oct 20, 2025 | Being World Changers, Children-in-Need, Create Awareness, Global Health, Human Rights, Mental Health, Poverty, Seeking Justice, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

Want to make doing good easier? Create awareness? Take advantage of the resources out there...

10 Ethical Fair Trade Gifts Under $10

by Elisa | Dec 10, 2019 | Being World Changers, Fair Trade Products, Good Charities, Socially Conscious Brands | 0 |

Ever have a hard time finding cheap ethically made, sustainable and socially good gifts to give? Check out these 10 ethical fair trade gifts under $10!

Is the Causebox Worth Getting?

by Elisa | Jun 17, 2019 | Ethical Fashion, Fair Trade Products, Socially Conscious Brands, Women's Empowerment | 0 |

My Top Ten Favorite Social Good Stores & an Interview on a Conscious Lifestyle

by Elisa | May 7, 2017 | Being World Changers, Create Awareness, Ethical Fashion, Fair Trade Products, Socially Conscious Brands | 0 |

Average Advocate’s top ten favortie social good stores is for all those who want to use their consumer super powers to change the world!

Is the Causebox Worth Getting?

by Elisa | May 31, 2016 | Good Charities, Helping that Doesn't Hurt, Socially Conscious Brands | 0 |

The Causebox subscription box has been around almost five years, full of socially good and ethical products that make a difference in the world. But is it worth getting?

Action: Give a Meaningful Gift this Christmas

by Elisa | Dec 11, 2012 | Ethical Fashion, Fair Trade Products, Good Charities, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

Give a Meaningful Gift this Christmas This is a guest post by Melanie Johnston. Originally from Tennessee, a vegan into tennis and journalism, Melanie is now with the Air Force studying linguistics. She has a lot of dreams,...

Action: Start REBBL and Buy Fair Trade Teas & Juices

by Elisa | Aug 6, 2012 | Ethical Fashion, Fair Trade Products, Good Charities, Helping that Doesn't Hurt, Ways to Make a Difference | 1 |

The first part of this post was taken from Rediscovering Social Justice: A Year of Awareness, a blog written by two students, one studying law and the other interior design. They wanted to do something good, so they are spending...

Book Review: Fast Living

by Elisa | Nov 5, 2011 | Ethical Fashion, Fair Trade Products, Good Charities, Poverty, Women's Empowerment | 4 |

This review is on the book Fast Living by Scott C. Todd (September 2011). This book was released along with the Live 58 Movement and 58: The Film. If you are interested in figuring out what these are, check out Average...

Average Consumer vs. Holiday Candy

by Elisa | Oct 31, 2011 | Art of Advocacy, Ethical Fashion, Fair Trade Products, Human Trafficking, Ways to Make a Difference | 1 |

Where Does My Holiday Candy Come From? Should I consider buying Fair Trade or Slave-Free Candy? Chocolate. Candy. Halloween. Holidays. Lots of Candy. Now that I think about it, the only thing very constant about all holidays is...

The World Where Women Live: Dangerous Countries to be Female

by Elisa | Aug 21, 2011 | Human Trafficking, Poverty, Seeking Justice, Ways to Make a Difference, Women's Empowerment | 0 |

Are you a woman? Do you like women? I am making a wild guess that anyone who reads this would likely answer yes to at least one of these two questions in some way or another. I do wonder, though, how much we grasp about the...