Fair Trade

Love is actually listed on the ingredients list for these exceptional chocolates. Named "best organic chocolate" by Food & Wine magazine and other connoisseurs, Dagoba makes "Premium Hand Crafted Organic Chocolate in uncharted flavor landscapes for the palate." Their mission is "to create the purest, most exquisite chocolate products available by melding ancient principles and modern methods, offer new and exotic products to the chocolate market and most importantly, help create a better world through organic/sustainable agriculture, ethical trading and eco-friendly manufacturing practices." Check their website for some intriguing and hard-to-find organic chocolate products: 73% Chocodrops (chocolate chips), Chocolate-coated Coffee Beans, Cacao Nibs, Chocolate Syrup, Cacao Powder. They offer 59% SemiSweet, 74% Bittersweet, and 87% "eclipse" chocolate bars, plus 59% SemiSweet with such flavors as Raspberries-Rosehips, Lavender-Blueberries, and Mint with a Hint of Rosemary. They also have "single origin" bars that are made with beans from unique ecosystems that are fully described on the website. If you like hot chocolate, try their Xocolatl Hot Chocolate--"We've resurrected the legendary cacao drink of the Aztecs by adding chilies and a hint of cinnamon to our award-winning Hot Chocolate." Labels are printed on recycled paper with vegetable-based ink. "Our facility is 100% powered by renewable energy sources and is dedicated organic - no conventional chocolate ever passes through our machinery." Sweetened with organic evaporated cane juice.

All kinds of colorful and creative bags made from hemp, cotton, and recycled silk: travel and utility bags, shoulder and tote bags, passport and field bags, wallets and purses, and sling bags. Very sturdy and durable. "Hemp Sisters is dedicated to providing one-of-a-kind, high-quality, hand-crafted clothing and accessories made of earth-sustaining, environmentally-friendly natural fiber materials such as hemp, nettle, recycled silk and wool.Hemp and nettle grow wild in nature and are hand-processed without chemicals on a traditional pit-loom by native villagers in the remote western villages of the Himalayan Kingdom Nepal. Recycled silk items are made by gathering waste pieces of silk from the cutting room floors of commercial producers in India and are then re-spun and hand knitted or crocheted into unique creations for Hemp Sisters. All Hemp Sisters items are hand-made by working women's cooperatives in Kathmandu, Nepal that pay fair wages, provide excellent working environmenys, and support the local women's community through scholarships and employment opportunities."

Luxury goes organic with these bedding items made with cotton, wool, French linen, and hemp. Futons and mattresses, mattress covers, top quality organic bed linens, comforters and duvet covers, pillows, blankets--all made from organic materials. Also mattress covers and organic wool moisture pad protector. Many items are exclusive to this site. "Our hemp products are, of course, sustainably made with no sweatshop, child, or underwaged labor involved at any step of the cultivation or manufacturing process -- this is something which we have taken pride in from the very beginning."

Certified organic hemp napkins, place mats, oven mitts, pot holders, kitch and dish towels, and aprons. Hemp table runners and organic linen table cloths and table accessories."Our hemp products are, of course, sustainably made with no sweatshop, child, or underwaged labor involved at any step of the cultivation or manufacturing process -- this is something which we have taken pride in from the very beginning."