The Story of Stuff

Groups Working On Distribution

Includes Fair Trade, Good Jobs, Big Box Store Reform

Blue-Green Alliance
www.bluegreenalliance.org
The Blue Green Alliance focuses on Global Warming and Clean Energy, Fair Trade, and Reducing Toxics, including chemical security and "green chemistry."

Co-op America
www.coopamerica.org
Co-op America harnesses economic power—the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace—to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society.

Development Group for Alternative Policies
www.developmentgap.org
The Development Group for Alternative Policies assists the promotion of economic justice across the South, or Third World, by helping to maximize control by poor communities and sectors over their own development in the face of impositions from the North.

Global Exchange
www.globalexchange.org
Global Exchange is a membership-based international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world.

Good Jobs First
www.goodjobsfirst.org
Good Jobs First is a national policy resource center for grassroots groups and public officials, promoting corporate and government accountability in economic development and smart growth for working families.

Public Citizen’s Trade Watch
www.citizen.org/trade/
Global Trade Watch (GTW) promotes democracy by challenging corporate globalization, arguing that the current globalization model is neither a random inevitability nor "free trade."

Sustainable Cotton Project
www.sustainablecotton.org
The Sustainable Cotton Project works to build bridges between farmers, manufacturers and consumers to pioneer markets for certified organically grown cotton.

SustainLabour: International Labour Foundation for Sustainable Development
www.sustainlabour.org
SustainLabour works to involve trade unions in environmental debates, to integrate labour issues in the environmental agenda, to engage workers in defense of the environment, and to encourage changes that are in favour of environment and workers.

TransFair USA
www.transfairusa.org
TransFair USA partners with industry to increase the availability of Fair Trade Certified products, and promotes Fair Trade products to consumers.

United for a Fair Economy
www.faireconomy.org
United for a Fair Economy raises awareness that concentrated wealth and power undermine the economy, corrupt democracy, deepen the racial divide, and tear communities apart.

Wal-Mart Watch
www.walmartwatch.com
Wal-Mart Watch is a campaign and resource center that is intent upon revealing facts about the realities of Wal-Mart, the largest corporation in the world, and its policies and practices.

You can find even more groups working on distribution, trade and big box issues, and add yours at:
http://wiserearth.org/aof/61 (fair trade)
http://wiserearth.org/aof/290 (distributive and economic justice)
http://wiserearth.org/aof/107 (living wages)
http://wiserearth.org/aof/51 (natural capitalism)
http://wiserearth.org/aof/5 (corporate ethics)