Sacramento Permaculture Guild
Cultivating Beneficial Relationships and Cultures in Sacramento
The Sacramento Permaculture Guild exists to connect people certified, experienced, or interested in permaculture, ecological design, green living, and organic gardening in the Sacramento region in order to create a more vibrant and sustainable local community through work-parties, potlucks, workshops and skillshares.
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Created: Jun 01, 2008
Updated: Nov 11, 2009
Membership: Open To Apply
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Ten Thousand Villages is a nonprofit, self-supporting alternative trading organization [ATO]. ATOs are non-governmental organizations [NGOs] designed to benefit artisans and farmers, not to maximize profits. They market products from arts and craft and agricultural organizations based in low-income countries. They provide consumers with products that have been fairly purchased from sustainable sources. ATOs put fair trade into practice and campaign for more equitable terms of trade for artisans from low-income countries.
Ten Thousand Villages is a member of the International Federation for Alternative Trade, [IFAT], a coalition of Third World arts and craft and agricultural organizations and ATOs from both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
IFAT describes fair trade as better than aid because it builds a sustainable future on artisans` own abilities.
>The main objective of fair trade is to improve the artisan`s quality of life.
>Artisans receive a fair price for their goods, advances on orders, and the continuity of a reliable trading partner.
>ATOs work with artisans and farmers to assist them in producing quality products.
>Sources, production, and workplaces do not exploit people or the environment.
>Consumers are informed about the people who make the products they purchase, increasing loyalty and understanding that their purchases make a difference.
IFAT encourages cultural exchanges between people in the South and people in the North.
Ten Thousand Villages is also a member of Fair Trade Federation [FTF], a coalition of more than two hundred craft producers, wholesalers and retailers. FTF seeks to develop a workable agenda for crafts and agricultural products within the context of fair trade.
Ten Thousand Villages is a member of the International Federation for Alternative Trade, [IFAT], a coalition of Third World arts and craft and agricultural organizations and ATOs from both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
IFAT describes fair trade as better than aid because it builds a sustainable future on artisans` own abilities.
>The main objective of fair trade is to improve the artisan`s quality of life.
>Artisans receive a fair price for their goods, advances on orders, and the continuity of a reliable trading partner.
>ATOs work with artisans and farmers to assist them in producing quality products.
>Sources, production, and workplaces do not exploit people or the environment.
>Consumers are informed about the people who make the products they purchase, increasing loyalty and understanding that their purchases make a difference.
IFAT encourages cultural exchanges between people in the South and people in the North.
Ten Thousand Villages is also a member of Fair Trade Federation [FTF], a coalition of more than two hundred craft producers, wholesalers and retailers. FTF seeks to develop a workable agenda for crafts and agricultural products within the context of fair trade.