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Imagine buying delicious, gourmet foods that are grown in harmony with nature without the use of harmful chemicals. Imagine these top-quality food produced by farmers around the world who are paid fair trade prices, so they can give their families a better standard of living.It is now possible to make a real difference to many of your purchase of food, thanks to Trans Fair USA, a non-profit organization that certifies food products that meet its stringent standards and Fair Trade Certified (TM) label. When you see the FTC label on foods like coffee, tea, chocolate, fresh fruit, sugar and rice, you can be sure that this product has passed three rigorous criteria: – finest quality. Foods must meet the highest standards in taste and quality, the finest gourmet foods distinction. – A fair deal for farmers. Family farmers are paid fairly for their produce the highest quality, which means a decent living standard for them and their families. It may mean working their own land with access to health care, and keep children in school. – Environmental Stewardship. Crops grown in harmony with the natural habitat and without harmful chemicals. Biodiversity is respected by farmers, which resulted in the healthy certified, often organic food. When you buy food with Fair Trade Certified (TM) label, you are guaranteed that the family farmers have been paid fair prices for their efforts, and have decent working and living conditions, regardless of origin. In fact, the FTC grown in some of the poorest Asian, African and Latin American countries. Fair Trade gives family farms in countries like Sri Lanka, Rwanda, Costa Rica, Haiti, Ethiopia equal footing in the global marketplace. Fair Trade Certified (TM) label also ensures eco-friendly foods that are 85% certified organic and of the highest quality in taste and nutritional value. As you shop, look for the FTC label (as pictured in this article). Fair Trade Certified (TM) products are available in cafes and restaurants and coffee houses (Starbuck's), importers (Cost Plus World Market), specialty stores (Trader Joe's), and now in larger chain grocers such as Safeway, Fred Meyer and Von's supermarkets. Even Sam's Club has been Fair Trade; their exclusive Marques de Paiva Coffee, grown by a Brazilian family since 1895, recently received several top national brand in a blind taste test conducted by ABC's 20/20 news program. If you can not find Fair Trade Certified (TM) products, ask for them! You can visit www.FairTradeCerified.org for a current list of dealers and more information about fair trade. By purchasing Fair Trade Certified (TM) products, you can make a difference through your purchasing power. By choosing Fair Trade, you have the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of family farmers around the world and treat your family to some of the finest foods on earth.

You see it every time you pass a petrol station, prices higher than ever seen before in history. It has been only a few short years ago when the $ 2.00 one gallon was considered extreme, and before than $ 1.00 one gallon was high! A number of different ways can be used to reduce your gas bill. However, you must not do anything, will cost more later, or more than you can afford now. Reduce your gas bill "at any price" is not the way to go.For example, to reduce your gas bill, combine your trips as often as possible in as few trips as practicable. So planning your route based on your stops versus position from your destination. Try to reduce relapse during your route, if possible insert it so you make a loop prisoners each site in turn and ends up back at your destination.It is not smart to make your first stop grocery store if you have six other stops in 90-degree heat. Take into account stops itself to ensure you do not leave food to cook for the rest of your journey. It would be best to place shopping for food on the bottom of list.Do not buy higher octane gasoline than your car requires. Check owner's manual. Use the recommended minimum octane for your car. Purchasing higher octane can increase your mileage, but the cost per mile versus price per gallon will not pay to save in the long run.Maintain car properly, changing air filters, fuel filters and keep tires inflated. Clogged air filters reduce the amount of air to get to the bottles, clogged fuel filters reduces the amount of fuel reaching cylinders, both increasing consumption.Anything that makes your car work reduces your mileage. Remove items in the car, there is no need for sandbags to get through the snow in the dead of summer is dead weight increased consumption. Boxes of books or articles that go to storage, if you do not want to this trip. Tires, tool boxes, floor jacks, something not required for the trip, besides basic hand tools should be left home.Do not put too much tire on your car. More contact between your tires and the road increases the friction and these tires weigh more and will reduce mileage.Use your air conditioner than rolling down the windows at higher speeds. It has been proven that at higher speeds drag placed on the vehicle body with open windows reduces mileage more than the air conditioner running. However, you must not neglect air conditioning on hot days just to save a dime on gas. The fuel savings are fractions of a penny in a tank of gas.DO not remove your pickup's tailgate, lower it, or replace it with a cargo net. Wind tunnel tests have confirmed that the pickups get better gas mileage with a hatch in place and CLOSED! This is because air becomes trapped in the bed and serves as an air pocket. Air moving across the air pocket has no features and thus do not increase fuel consumption.A lowered or removed tailgate forces wind comes over the top of the cab to drop to the bottom of the pickup bed and drag across the bed reduce your gas mileage. Many mistakenly believe tailgate acts as a sail over the back, but it has been proven false.Do no jack-rabbit at stop lights, a slow constant pressure on your accelerator to start the car moving and reach posted speeds best.Cars are different. Different cars have different speeds, where they provide the optimum gas economy. My car is 65 MPH. I can get 30 MPG at 65 MPH. However, it might be good for my car is not the same for yours.Take some time and write your mileage down on fill-up. Determine your mileage by dividing the number of miles driven by the number of gallon it took to fill the tank back to full (it does not work well if only a few dollars is placed at a time.) Document your driving that tank. Over time you will see the intervals your car doing the best thing financially. NEVER go over the posted speed (or safe speed based on weather conditions) however.Purchase a gauge put in the OBD-II port, which shows real-time gas mileage. This provides immediate feedback on how your driving at the moment that affect your mileage. Such a device is ScanGauge allows for instant display while driving (most 1996 and newer cars, check compatibility before ordering). Do not try to use other features unless you are familiar with the use and how to properly implement it.Do not rush out and trade-off your gas hog SUV for an economic model. It is true you will save on gas, but high gas SUVs are not selling well, and the savings from mileage will be lost in higher car payments (especially if SUVs were not paid for by trade), resulting in higher monthly costs of car payments. Do not put your economy up and down to act if it is not in your budget to make so.Use alternate means where it is possible to get around. If shops are in close proximity and your health and time permits, go to those places.If you park in a large shopping mall-type business with many companies you want to visit, not your car among the different companies, rather park in a central location and walk between the sites, only returning to the car to leave.