Halloween-themed goods are already decorating store windows -- which reminds me it's almost Fair Trade Month! October's the month when chocolate lovers combine Halloween tricks and treats with socio-environmental activism.

Camping over the long weekend? Make s'mores -- with fair trade chocolate -- then let your s'more be counted by registering it!

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Was your Valentine's Day sweeter this year with fair trade chocolates?!

Chai drinking chocoholics: The Valentine's Day treat you've been waiting for's officially arrived. Yes, I already told you where the fair trade chocolate and flower deals are this Valentine's Day -- but here's one more sweet deal to enjoy: Organic, fair trade SLO Chai Chocolate!

Opting for fair trade chocolate's easier than ever, with Whole Foods and many other stores offering these eco-ethical sweets. Convincing others to choose fair trade can be tougher -- but don't despair! Fair trade organizations and companies have made becoming a fair trade activist simple this year.

Valentines Day -- aka chocolate day -- is coming up. And while I'm all about yummy chocolates, I'm peeved that a lot of the choco in the US could still be tainted by illegal child labor. Yes, US children's favorite candy's also the bane of children growing up in the Ivory Coast, who get sold into slave-like labor and toil in the fields to produce the sweet stuff.

Dorie Greenspan is a cookbook author of great fame but lucky for us, she's a real food blogger too, at www.DorieGreenspan.com. Like most food bloggers, she's bursting with curiousity and excited to share. Dorie's just been to 'chocolate school' (tough job, yes?) and if you've always wondered about good chocolate and why you might upgrade from supermarket chocolate chips, she shares thoughtful observations and careful lessons.

Heidi from the San Francisco food blog 101 Cookbooks made four batches of pudding before finally reaching comfort food nirvana, an unusual pudding made with coconut milk and (a Heidi signature) unusual spices. She writes: "It took me almost thirty dollars in premium chocolate and four lackluster attempts to eventually come up with a chocolate pudding recipe special enough to share with you. I made not only bland, flat, and gelatinous puddings, but also runny and boring chocolate puddings before I finally turned out this keeper of a batch. It is deeply dark and impossibly chocolatety, rich, glossy, fragrant, and un-lumpy." ~ For Heidi's chocolate pudding tips and her recipe, check out Coconut Chocolate Pudding For an everyday pudding, BlogHer food editor Alanna Kellogg recommends the Light 'n' Easy Chocolate Pudding from her food column Kitchen Parade.