Can we put our personal actions and values into our work? Here are a few sites that present jobs and advice for people who are looking for work that is about more than the bottom line.

• GoodWork - Canadian green job site - can search by cities and keywords
• Idealist - International job site - most postings are for US NGOs - great networking site
• Charity Village - Canada's NGO and non-profit clearinghouse - loads of ideas for job searches
• Environment Jobs UK - the United Kingdom's premium green job site since 1994!

What would fair trade look like in a musical context? At the least, some initial criteria might include:

• fair share of royalties and support for musicians in between royalty payments
• artist control over musical content 
• artistic rights respected (copyright, creative commons or some other form of (un) "ownership" of music
• cultural respect (not-stealing tunes or recordings)

Coldplay plays "In my head" at a fair trade benefit...they are enthusiastic supporters of OXFAM and fair trade! 

Soft fruit requires a soft-touch, which all too often means that a human suffers so you can indulge

The most vulnerable workers in society often get stuck with the triple "D" jobs: difficult, dirty, dangerous. Working in incredible heat in fields from California to Florida to Niagara-on-the-Lake, and greenhouses everywhere in between, human beings are slowly baked so that we can eat cheap food. The pay they receive is low relative to average US or Canadian wages, but it may be sufficient to allow them to remit money back to family -members in poorer countries. 

Lack of status - both legal and social - permit employers to exploit workers: not paying promised wages, not providing safe work conditions nor living spaces, demanding overtime, and in extreme cases taking away workers' passports and forcing them to work as involuntary labour or slaves.