Green Floral Gifts

If flowers are your go-to-gift, start looking for organic flowers and ideally, for locally grown organic flowers. By buying locally, you are assisting the local economy as well as avoiding all that CO2 from flying flowers in. Most cut flowers are grown in South America and Africa and are heavily doused with pesticides, including pesticides which are illegal to use in the US. The chemicals negatively impact the flower workers, the ground water, soil and the surrounding villages.

I recommend: Local Harvest - for flower growers near you. Organic Bouquets or California Organic Flowers are good defaults if local flowers are not available.

Green Culinary Gifts

You can send a gift of fairly traded coffee, tea or chocolate. The farmers who grow these products do so in sustainable manner and receive a fair wage for their work. You can also consider finding a local baker who uses organic ingredients and buy a couple dozen cookies or cupcakes.

I recommend: Divine Chocolate is the Fairtrade Chocolate Company co-owned by the cocoa farmers cooperative Kuapa Kokoo in Ghana, who not only receive a fair price for their cocoa but also share in the company's profit.

Equal Exchange, founded in 1986, is the oldest and largest for-profit Fair Trade company in the US. We offer organic, gourmet coffee, tea, sugar, cocoa, and chocolate bars produced by democratically run farmer co-ops in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Assortment of Green Gifts

Ten Thousand Villages offers a wide assortment of gift ideas. Ten Thousand Villages purchases their items from artisans in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East, using Fair Trade agreements.

I recommend: Ten Thousand Villages offers a wide assortment of gift ideas. They purchase their items from artisans in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East, using Fair Trade agreements.

Global Exchange - this site has ties, chocolates, gifts, crafts and an entire section dedicated to Father's Day gift ideas.