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About Me

World Next Door is a locally-owned small business in downtown Chattanooga, TN. Our desire is to connect artisans in developing nations with customers in the United States and Canada by offering an inventory of entirely fairly-traded products.

But more than that, this business is an extension of our lives. We believe that the world is a fascinating place full of the beauty of God and man. But we also recognize that over a billion people live in extreme poverty. One small way for us to reconcile these two truths is to promote fair trade, and to use our business as a tool for change. We hope to start conversations, offer food for thought, and develop relationships with those we serve both in our store and in artisan communities overseas.

Please visit us in our store in downtown Chattanooga:

100 Market Street Chattanooga, TN 37402

And online:

www.worldnextdoormarket.com
worldnextdoormarket.blogspot.com

My Interests

Fair Trade, Travel, Foreign Cultures, 3rd World Countries, Sustainable Development, Human Rights, Social Justice, International Trade, Education

I'd like to meet:

farmers, artisans, craftsmen/women, artists, musicians, the hopeful, the hopeless, the happy, the sad, the compassionate, the hard, doers, thinkers, dreamers, the merciful, the ruthless, the sick, the well, the displaced, the downtrodden, the left-behind, the 'least of these,' and YOU

Music:

Chris Slaten

Dan Landrum

Putamayo Collections

Movies:

Invisible Children

Born Into Brothels

Blood Diamond

Summer Palace

Books:

Fair Trade: A Beginner's Guide

The Travel Book

1000 Places to See Before You Die

More With Less

Walking With the Poor

One People:One Planet

On The Move

The End of Poverty

The Mystery of Capital

My Blog

World Fair Trade Day - May 10, 2008

World Fair Trade Day is tomorrow! It totally sneaked up on us this year. We were hoping to get an event together, but with the Honeycutts setting up the Lakeside store and Jency and m...
Posted by World Next Door on Fri, 09 May 2008 03:55:00 PST

NAME OUR JEANS.

World Next Door is exploring an exciting opportunity in Ecuador: FAIR TRADE JEANS. Ecuador produces lots of denim products, most often involving sweatshop labor. One of our owners is traveling b...
Posted by World Next Door on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:25:00 PST

Featured Country: ECUADOR

We ran India as our featured country for a few weeks, and believe me folks, it was good. But now that we’ve got all this new inventory purchased directly by our owners, face-to-face, from artis...
Posted by World Next Door on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:54:00 PST

Do you know the difference between "fair trade" and "free trade?"

We've been having a lot of people coming into the store lately and asking about the difference between "fair trade" and "free trade." The two phrases sound so much alike, it's easy to get them m...
Posted by World Next Door on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:04:00 PST

Interesting developments in Ecuador....

Well, we're keeping in touch with our owners through the internet while they explore future partnerships in Ecuador, and lots of interesting and funny things have already happened even in the first 3 ...
Posted by World Next Door on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:07:00 PST

Welcome, socially conscious shoppers!

Thank you for visiting the World Next Door MySpace. We hope you can learn a little more about our business and about fair trade by checking out some of our links and friends' pages. We are proud...
Posted by World Next Door on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:28:00 PST

Owners in Ecuador! Aye Carumba...

Will and Kim took their three kids to Ecuador. They're there to visit friends, as well as explore partnerships with artisan communities in that country. They'll be posting periodically on ...
Posted by World Next Door on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:00:00 PST