Last weekend the staff of AGI participated in Wichita’s Earth Fest 2010 event hosted by the Earth Spirit of Kansas Coalition. Organic and Vegetarian food, music, solar oven demos and earth-friendly fashion displays, were just a few of the attractions enjoyed by local and state wide participants at this annual event.
So today of course [...]
AGI was honored to host a booth at, and be a part of, the Wichita Women’s Initiative Network “Domestic Violence Awareness” event on April 20th. We were excited at the fact that many of our booth visitors had given an alternative gift through AGI before, and by the fact that so many were interested in hosting [...]
Some of you may know that our current catalog is organized in accordance with the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Every time a person discovers our catalog or our website, and selects an alternative gift, the cycle of alternative gifting is repeated and the world is improved. Each simple gift provides joy, curiosity, compassion, appreciation, hope [...]
The time is ripe for us to explore new ideas on how we can start the season of fresh beginnings with a “Spring” in our step! Communities everywhere are in preparation for the new season: getting ready to clean out the old, to get organized, apply a fresh coat of paint perhaps, and tend to [...]
We live in a world economy based primarily on wealth and materialistic need, fueled by planned obsolescence. At the same time most world leaders recognize a need for the intangibles—things that can’t be advertised, bought or sold. Character traits such as honesty, dignity and respect are often rooted in empathy. Why talk about empathy? Because [...]
For those of us who enjoy living in Four Seasons, but don’t enjoy snow-mobiling, -boarding, or -skiing, at this time of year we are rather tired of staying indoors. After a while, it actually gets unhealthy–even for avid readers and musicians (like me). If we are more attentive to the small little changes that are [...]
Somewhere in my past, I read an older book by philosopher/psychologist Paul Tournier –written before 1980 makes it ‘old’ right? It was especially suitable for a parent to read, because the references were often made to how we feel about gifts based on our childhood memories, and how our parents ‘used’ gifts in our upbringing–or [...]
Post-holiday time is always interesting at Alternative Gifts International. After seeing the generosity of people at the busiest gift-giving time of the year, we get back to the work of planning for the next year: Selecting projects for “Shopping List for the World”, creating materials for the Alternative Gift Markets, which are the mainstay of [...]
