Vote With Your Dollar Fair

bringing ethical purchasing to UBC

Buy from someone who cares about the same things you do.

Thursday & Friday, March 19 & 20, 2009, 9AM to 4 PM
UBC Student Union Building - Main Concourse

By popular demand, this year's fair will be expanded and extended! Join dozens of businesses, non-profits and campus groups who are leaders in sustainability who will demonstrate their innovative and inspiring products and services. Look below for a selection of the businesses that will be attending the fair this year.

This year's Vote With Your Dollar Fair is brought to you by

	African Fair Trade Society is an organization that was founded and registered as a non-profit organization Society in British Columbia, Canada on October 12, 2005. The African Fair Trade Society develops, markets and sells the following line of skin and beauty products: 100% pure unrefined shea butter products. The organization is proud of Conservation of Shea Trees and other indigenous natural resources.
	Then Thousand Villages is a non-profit fair trade organization. Since 1946 we have been providing vital, fair income to disadvantaged and marginalized artisans around the world by marketing their crafts and sharing their lives with North Americans. Our organization is proud of its trading partnership based on dialogue, transparency & respect, fair trade seeks greater equity in international trade based on the principal that trade should have a conscience.
	Our company sells kits to convert bicycles into electric bikes. As well we sell scooters. We are proud to provide the public with transprotation alternatives that are environmentally friendly and reduces our carbon footprint.
	BC Hydro has launched Team Power Smart, where BC Hydro customers can commit to use electricity more efficiently and are eligible for exclusive rewards and prizes. Team Power Smart includes thousands of British Columbians who are committed to using less electricity and want to build a more sustainable future.
	Green Zebra guide is the newest fundraising initiative of TB Vets Charitable Foundation. Best known for the annual keytag campaign, TB Vets has provided employment for people with disabilities and has funded respiratory equipment, research, and education to help BC breathe since 1946. We invest in a sustainable community on several fronts: Green Zebra guide is a resource for healthy, sustainable living; the book is printed locally on recycled paper using UV printing technology; and net proceeds support TB Vets, an organization that has people with disabilities making up 60% of its employee base.
	We are a non-profit community organization organizing 4 summer and 1 winter farmers market in Vancouver. Vancouver Farmers Markets provides farmers with a viable opportunity to sell their goods, make a living & keep agriculture growing in BC.
	Encorp Pacific (Canada) is a not-for-profit product stewardship corporation with beverage container management as our core business. More information at www.encorp.ca . We are proud to help keep beverage containers out of BC landfills.
	Green Earth Organics is an organic food home delivery company. We support local organic farms, recycling program, composting, and donate to charities and lots more.
	SPEC educates, advocates & empowers citizens in the Lower Mainland to build healthy cities. We are proud that we founded the RCBC and promoting better transit not freeways.
About Eva Imports	About Eva Imports is an organization selling fair trade bags made by women previously trapped in the sex trade. We are proud to be giving women a way out of the sex trade by offering them a chance to earn a living by maknig bags.
	We are Western Canada's largest academic bookstore owned and operated by the University of British Columbia. We have a no-sweat policy for clothing and promote sustainable products and services available at the UBC Bookstore and sustainable staff programs.
	Ligh House is a non-profit dedicated to advancing and catalyzing sustainability in BC's built environment. By 2010, we are targeting the following reductions: GHG emissions by 40 tonnes / year, energy use by 100,000 kwh/year, water use by 1,000,000 L/year, waste by 15 tonnes/year.
	Norwex educates and demonstrates practices that help our customers create healthy living & working environments by eliminating the need for cleaning chemicals - we are chemical free, phosphate free, paraben free. We positively contribute to the Wellness of the planet & our customers. We also have a program where we donate proceeds of a specific product to the fight against breast cancer.
	The Car Co-op is Metro Vancouver's premier car-sharing organization. We're a local not-for-profit with more than 5000 drivers sharing our diverse fleet of 227 cars. Carsharing can be considered the most economical and environmentally-friendly way of "owning" a car. We're keeping hundreds if not thousands of individually owned cars off the road. It's estimated that for every one car shared, between five and 15 privately owned cars are kept off the road. For the past 12 years we've been encouraging all forms of sustainable transport in Metro Vancouver.
Alliance - EBikeTown	We are a retailer of electric bicycles and accessories. By reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we are promoting sustainability by getting people ouit of cars and onto e-bikes.
	Earthsave is a non-profit, educational organiation promoting awareness of the health, environmental and ethical consequences of our food choices. We advocate the move towards a plant-based diet. All of our programs are dedicated to encouraging people to make mroe sustainable, compassionate, healthy choices.