Alternative Holiday Shopping
Jane Redmont, formerly of the GTU and now teaching at a Quaker college in North Carolina, has a wonderful blog called Acts of Hope. She posted a list of resources for alternative, environmental and social-justice friendly gift buying. Other ideas are listed in the comments. Go check it out!
If you're in the Olympia area, please visit Traditions. It's a fair-trade import store, meaning that artisans actually get paid decently for their work. It's also a performance space, and a community treasure. (And give Dick and Jody my best. They're wonderful people. She was my doppelganger when I lived up there, and I never minded being mistaken for her.)
Please add your own resources, either in the comments here or at Jane's. Thank you!
1 comment:
I didn't know you'd lived here. :)
I do know Traditions and it's a great store. We have a great shop in Madrona (not far from our house) that sells local artists' work. We've bought my in-laws' gifts there the past three years. :)
Thanks for the link to Acts of Hope - great blog!
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