By Terri Rimmer
Ten Thousand Villages Shop has received the Co-Op America People’s Choice Award for Green Business of the Year by a vote of the public.
The store’s Holiday Collection is also available in stores and online at tenthousandvillages.com.
“The Fort Worth Star-Telegram will be featuring a photo of our products in a future issue as part of a feature on Co-Op America’s Green Gift Giving Catalog,” said Juanita Fox, media coordinator of Ten Thousand Villages. “The column, ‘Savvy Consumer” will also be syndicated to all Knight Ridder papers, meaning it may show up across the country.”
You can celebrate the spirit of Hanukkah with fairly traded menorahs, tzedakah boxes, and home décor – made by artisans from around the world.
Many Ten Thousand Villages Stores have longer hours during the holidays and will be conducting festive activities including Benefit Shopping Nights to raise funds for groups and Holiday Bag Sales.
Ten Thousand is one of the largest and oldest fair trade companies in the world and a founder among Fair Trade businesses in the country.
According to their website, thousands of people across the country cast their vote for this first-ever award where consumers nominate and vote for green businesses making a difference for people and the planet.
The award is made to recognize the work of socially and environmentally conscious businesses, showcasing how they can commit to items and ethics giving to the health and well-being of people, employees, societies, and the earth, while challenging everyone else to do so.
Votes came in from many buyers across the country, said Ten Thousand Villages.
The company is encouraging others to spread the word.
You can do this one way by giving gift memberships to Co-Op America at coopamerica.org.
Other companies that ranked in the top ten were: Wildlife Works, It’s Only Natural, Mama’s Earth: The Environmental General Store, Twisted Limb Paperworks, Earth Tones –Environmental Telephone & Internet, Honest Tea, Seventh Generation, Better World Club – Bicycle Roadside Assistance, and Equal Exchange.
You can read about these companies in the National Green Pages.
Ten Thousand Villages was also featured in Natural Home and Garden Magazine in the November/December issue.
Nov. 5-6 the 2005 Green Festival, a fair trade event, was held in San Francisco, CA.
On Oct. 2nd over 700 people took part in the Fair Trade Future Conference in Chicago.
Ten Thousand Villages Shop has received the Co-Op America People’s Choice Award for Green Business of the Year by a vote of the public.
The store’s Holiday Collection is also available in stores and online at tenthousandvillages.com.
“The Fort Worth Star-Telegram will be featuring a photo of our products in a future issue as part of a feature on Co-Op America’s Green Gift Giving Catalog,” said Juanita Fox, media coordinator of Ten Thousand Villages. “The column, ‘Savvy Consumer” will also be syndicated to all Knight Ridder papers, meaning it may show up across the country.”
You can celebrate the spirit of Hanukkah with fairly traded menorahs, tzedakah boxes, and home décor – made by artisans from around the world.
Many Ten Thousand Villages Stores have longer hours during the holidays and will be conducting festive activities including Benefit Shopping Nights to raise funds for groups and Holiday Bag Sales.
Ten Thousand is one of the largest and oldest fair trade companies in the world and a founder among Fair Trade businesses in the country.
According to their website, thousands of people across the country cast their vote for this first-ever award where consumers nominate and vote for green businesses making a difference for people and the planet.
The award is made to recognize the work of socially and environmentally conscious businesses, showcasing how they can commit to items and ethics giving to the health and well-being of people, employees, societies, and the earth, while challenging everyone else to do so.
Votes came in from many buyers across the country, said Ten Thousand Villages.
The company is encouraging others to spread the word.
You can do this one way by giving gift memberships to Co-Op America at coopamerica.org.
Other companies that ranked in the top ten were: Wildlife Works, It’s Only Natural, Mama’s Earth: The Environmental General Store, Twisted Limb Paperworks, Earth Tones –Environmental Telephone & Internet, Honest Tea, Seventh Generation, Better World Club – Bicycle Roadside Assistance, and Equal Exchange.
You can read about these companies in the National Green Pages.
Ten Thousand Villages was also featured in Natural Home and Garden Magazine in the November/December issue.
Nov. 5-6 the 2005 Green Festival, a fair trade event, was held in San Francisco, CA.
On Oct. 2nd over 700 people took part in the Fair Trade Future Conference in Chicago.