Fair Trade Valentine's

Treehugger, a blog about anything and everything green, recently posted about a Fair Trade Chocolate Activist Kit from Global Exchange. While I've seen more attention paid towards sweatshop free clothing and fair trade coffee, the fact that the chocolate industry still relies heavily on child labor appears to have been swept under the rug.

The kit is $15 and includes a box of heart-shaped chocolates (milk or dark), fair trade themed Valentine's cards with a retro theme, an "amore" banner, and an "I love fair trade" iron-on. If you hold a fair trade activist close to your heart, then it would make an excellent gift.

Global Exchange is a company dedicated to fair trade goods and thus has a number of other fair trade items available for purchase—including chocolates and crafts. For gifts, recycled gift packaging is also available. I know where I'm shopping for V-Day gifts this year.